At the end of the 1950s, a new generation of politicians around the planning commissioner Laureano López Rodó took over the reins of economic policy in Franco’s Spain. Their goal was to relegitimise the regime by depoliticising it as a developmental dictatorship. This chapter shows how López Rodó borrowed the ideas of the German jurist Ernst Forsthoff to transform Franco’s dictatorship into a ‘modern’ and ‘post-liberal’ developmental regime, where fundamental rights and political participation were replaced by the right to receive state-guaranteed services. However, the new ideal of a depoliticised society of “the administered” (administrados) was publicly challenged. The regime’s single party Movimiento, one of the central regime factions, was the first to do so, as its strategy for stabilising the dictatorship continued to be political mobilisation. The abolition of prior press censorship and the opening up of the Francoist pseudo-parliament to the so-called “family representatives” (procuradores familiares) ensured that not only the new development policy but also the Francoist dictatorship itself was increasingly publicly criticised from the second half of the 1960s on. An analysis of these debates shows that López Rodó’s depoliticising legitimation strategy was only partially successful, as it led to a repoliticisation of public affairs.