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In the late 1980s Zufía served his second term as president of Cámara de Comptos. His biography hails him as an impartial public servant bent on combating corruption, who advocated and in fact enforced transparency in the public sector.<ref> López López 2009, pp. 91-93</ref> His term expired in 1991. He was entitled to re-election, but Zufía decided not to stand; he claimed that 10 years in office was long enough and that to ensure sanity in public administration, he should provide an example and resign. PSOE failed to persuade him to change his mind and Zufía ceased as president in 1992.<ref> López López 2009, p. 93</ref> On retirement he engaged in [[Charity (practice)|charity]]; his focus was mostly on Junta de la Fundación Tutelar Navarra, an organization serving the incapacitated; in 1993 he was elected its president.<ref> López López 2009, p. 103</ref>
Zufía still considered himself a Carlist. In the mid-1980s he declared that the party “could not simply disappear” and concluded that “all of this could not just be given up”.<ref>he pointed to its glorious past, himself and his sons having been jailed, MacClancy 2000, p. 201</ref> In the mid-1980s he supported Partido Carlista entry into a Communist-dominated [[United Left (Spain)|Izquierda Unida]], but following [[1986 Spanish general election|another disastrous general elections]] he concluded that PC had been cynically manipulated by the likes of [[Santiago Carrillo|Santiago Carillo]]. In the 1990s he changed his opinion about the party and summarized that Carlism “tiene un aspecto fuertemente sentimental”<ref>“Partido Carlista – con cien años de vida, varias generaciones, guerras, padres, abuelos y bisabuelos”</ref> but it was is no longer valid as a political platform.<ref> López López 2009, p. 98</ref> He claimed that for him Carlism remained sort of a general guideline, marked by socialism, self-management, and devolution. He remained proud of his past in the Carlist ranks and noted that though defeated as a rupturista strategy in the 1970s, at least carlohuguista progressism movement reclaimed Carlism from the ultra-reactionaries. He denied the Carlist name to [[Traditionalism (Spain)|Traditionalist orthodoxes]], “personas que sigan con esa ideologia tradicionalista y integrista”.<ref> López López 2009, p. 99</ref> It is not clear what position he assumed in the 1990s when faced with
Today Mariano Zufía is remembered mostly as the Navarrese public official, especially the one who helped to build the regional fiscal and public spendings machinery. In 2007 Fundación para la Formación e Investigación en Auditoría del Sector Público FIASEP, an independent institution promoting transparency in public finances, set up Premio Mariano Zufía; on irregular basis it is awarded since 2009.<ref> the last premio identified was awarded in 2014, see Fundación FIASEP website, available [http://grupobeteanblog.com/premio-mariano-zufia-de-fiasep-en-el-campo-de-la-auditoria-publica-2014/ here]</ref> On some websites related to Partido Carlista he is recorded as the former party leader and a distinguished personality, especially that until today he remains the only PC representative who has ever been elected to either a regional or the national parliament.<ref> compare ''LealtadALealtad'' service, link blocked by Wikipedia</ref> In historiographic works addressing either Carlism or the Spanish transición he appears marginally as a person who presided over disintegration of Partido Carlista into a third-rate political force.<ref> Jordi Canal, ''El carlismo'', Madrid 2000, ISBN 8420639478, p. 388, MacClancy 2000, pp. 195, 201</ref>
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