Risco initially supported the dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera, because he saw in it the opportunity to destroy the caciquist system and accept the role of provincial deputy in Ourense thinking of the possibility of the establishment of a Commonwealth of Galicia, similar to the Commonwealth of Catalonia. After his rupture with the Irmandade da Fala da Coruña and "A Nosa Terra" he wrote for "Rexurdimento", the newspaper of the Irmandade Nazonalista Galega ("Galician Nationalist Brotherhood"), although he returned to "A Nosa Terra" after a short time.