 The efforts were moderately successful, as there were 2 Carlist MPs elected from Catalonia.There is no evidence of Mas’ partisanship during a long-maturing conflict between the key party theorist Vázquez de Mella and the claimant Don Jaime; when it climaxed in the 1919 secession of the Mellistas, Mas joined the dissenters.The entire Junta Regional resigned in corpore and Mas declared his access to the new Partido Católico Tradicionalista.