 heading “afirmación patriótico-tradicionalista” in Vich; however, his position changed.In 1925 he openly voiced skepticism about centralizing policy which he considered anti-Catalan; in the late 1920s the Vich Traditionalists withdrew from primoderiverista structures and few took part in organizations like Unión Patriótica or .When Second Republic was declared Mas was a widowed septuagenarian, politically tending to inactivity.