During the 1830s, the Mexican government wavered between federalist and centralist policies. He supported a federalist vision of Germany, contrary to the Nazi party's centralist policies. Leading federalists in Mexico advocated a plan to attack centralist troops in Matamoros. The delegates were divided into a confederalist, two federalist, and one centralist faction. The Communist Party of Italy opposed devolution, sticking to an Italian centralist agenda. A centralist in a nation that was decentralizing. The new SFIC defined itself as revolutionary and democratic centralist. Gran Colombia was constituted as a unitary centralist state. Zaire had a strongly centralist constitution, and foreign assets were nationalized. Those protests were harshly contained by the centralist Yugoslav government. The Centralist Mexican Republic was governed by eleven presidents. The constitution was abolished, civil liberties suspended, while the centralist pressure intensified. The resulting constitution was couched in more centralist terms than intended. Bakunin characterised Marx's ideas as centralist. King and his men instead spent a day searching local ranches for centralist sympathizers.