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

1. ↑ ^{a b} Meyer's Large Conversation Lexicon. Volume 19, Leipzig 1909, p. 890.
2. ^ 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.