Provincial Christian-Socialist Party
Provincial Christian-Socialist Party Országos Keresztényszocialista Párt | |
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Abbreviation | OKszP |
Politics of Czechoslovakia |
The Provincial Christian-Socialist Party (Hungarian: Országos Keresztényszocialista Párt, OKszP; Czech: Zemská křesťansko-socialistická strana; German: Provinziell-Christlich-Sozialistische Partei) was the main political party of ethnic Hungarians in the First Czechoslovak Republic.
It was founded on 23 November 1919 in
Initially, there were two tendencies inside the party, one in favour of a closer cooperation with the
Lelley was a partisan of the second option, but after a few years he lost the internal battle and was expelled from the party with his followers. They went to the
On 21 June 1936 the party merged with the Hungarian National Party into Egyesült Magyar Párt (EMP, United Hungarian Party) led by János Esterházy as national executive chairman (until then leader of OKszP) and Andor Jaross as national chairman.[3]
Electoral results
- 1920: 139,355 votes, 2.3% - 5 seats (leader: Jenő Lelley Lelley)[4] as the Hungarian and German Christian‐Socialist Party (Hungarian: Magyar és Német Keresztényszocialista Párt, German: Magyarisch-deutsche christlichsoziale Partei, Czech: Maďarsko-německá křesťansko-sociální strana) like its Social Democratic counterpart[5]
- 1925: 98,383 votes, 1.4% - 4 seats (leader: Géza Szüllő)[4]
- German Party of the Zips[5]
Footnotes
References
- Bosl, Karl (1979). "Die erste Tschechoslowakische Republik als multinationaler Parteienstaat". Vorträge d. Tagungen d. Collegium Carolinum in Bad Wiessee vom 24.-27. November 1977 u. vom 20.-23. April 1978. Munich: Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag. pp. 218–219. ISBN 978-3-486-49181-4.
- Lipscher, Ladislav (1979). "Tabelle II. Ergebnisse der Wahlen zum Abgeordnetenhaus". Verfassung und politische Verwaltung in der Tschechoslowakei: 1918-1939. Munich: Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag. pp. 195–196. ISBN 978-3-486-44471-1.
- Marek, Pavel (2000). "Politické strany maďarské menšiny". In Pavel Marek; et al. (eds.). Přehled politického stranictví na území českých zemí a Československa v letech 1861-1998. Olomouc: Katedra politologie a evropských studií ISBN 80-86200-25-6.
- Szent-Ivany, Gabor (1989). "Janos Esterhazy, the New National Chairman of the Hungarian Christian Socialist Party". Count Janos Esterhazy: Life and works of the great son of the Hungarian highland. Astor (Florida): Danubian Press. ISBN 0-87934-034-7.