Hungarian political parties in Czechoslovakia and the election of a successor to President Masaryk in December 1935. Part I
Abstract
The attitude of Hungarian minority parties in Czechoslovakia, namely the Provincial Christian-Socialist Party (Országos Keresztény Szocialista Párt; OKSzP) and the Hungarian National Party (Magyar Nemzeti Párt; MNP), to the presidential election in December 1935 is discussed. A successor to President Masaryk, who had abdicated after many years in the office, was to be elected.
The role of Budapest in determining the position of the two Hungarian political parties in connection with that historically important event in the history of the First Czechoslovak Republic is explained and the coordinated action of OKSzP and MNP during the presidential campaign is also analyzed, namely the question whether all the present MNP legislators really voted at the election in agreement with the OKSzP electors. The present paper is based on the study of primary and secondary sources, both Hungarian and Czechoslovak.