Independence Party (Hungary)
The Independence Party (Hungarian: Függetlenségi és Negyvennyolcas Párt - independence and 48ers party , also known as the National Party or colloquially known as the Kossuth Party ) was founded on May 17, 1874 in the Kingdom of Hungary as the successor to the National Party of 1848 ( Országos 1848-as Párt ).
It was the reservoir for the national opposition in the tradition of Lajos Kossuth and the revolution of 1848 . It was based primarily on the middle nobility. The party rejected the compromise of 1867 and strove for complete independence or at least a personal union and thus greater separation of Hungary from Austria and the Habsburgs . On September 29, 1884, the Independence Party was re-established by a merger with another 1848 party by Albert Apponyi .
In the Hungarian parliamentary elections in January 1905, the Liberal Party lost its majority for the first time since the compromise in 1867, while the Independence Party under Ferenc Kossuth led a coalition with a parliamentary majority. This led to the Hungarian crisis in 1905 , as a result of which the independence party was represented in the government for the first time. In 1906 she took over three ministries in the Sándor Wekerle cabinet . On November 12, 1909, the party split into a moderate and a radical wing; on January 25, 1918, the remaining party was finally re-established by Wekerle and dissolved on November 7, 1918.
Election results in parliamentary elections
choice | MPs | percent |
---|---|---|
1875 | 36 | 8.70% |
1878 | 76 | 18% |
1881 | 88 | 21% |
1884 | 72 | 17.43% |
1887 | 78 | 18.89% |
1892 | 86 | 20.82% |
1896 | 50 | 12.10% |
1901 | 79 | 19.13% |
1905 | 165 | 39.95% |
1906 | 253 | 61.26% |
1910 | 51/44 | 12.35 / 10.65% |
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Meyer's Large Conversation Lexicon. Volume 19, Leipzig 1909, p. 890.
- ^ Mathias Bernath, Felix von Schroeder, Gerda Bartl (eds.): Biographical Lexicon for the History of Southeast Europe. Volume 3, Verlag Oldenbourg, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-48648-991-7 , p. 230.