A Békés Megyei Múzeumok Közleményei 20. - Száz éve alakult a Békéscsabai Múzeum-Egyesület (Békéscsaba, 1999)

Kocsor János: Beginning of organizing of Independent Small-holder Party in Békés county (1929–1933)

Kocsor János The small-holder movement in Békés county examined by the study joined to more moderate ones among tendencies developing in several points of the country. The role of the county in establishing the Independent Small-holder Party was determining. The suggestion for reviveing the old Nagyatádi-spirit Small-holder Party was heard first on the exceptional general assembly of Békés county Small-holder Association what was holded on 20. Oktober, 1929. The first platform of the movement was elaborated in December, 1929 in Mezöberény considering the former platforms of the died Small-holder leader. They didn't positioned themself on open opposition basis, but more points of their draft plan, as for example the secret suffrage, aimed to democratize the public life. On 12 Oktober, 1930 the Independent Small-holder, Navvy and Civil Party launched with nationwide validity in Békés, in the name-giving village of the county, and later after uniting with Agricultural Party it inserted into its name the agricultural mark, too. On the election in 1931 the Party started candidates in three places in the county but they failed out in the first round. In the second round however Szakács Andor in Békés managed to get into the parliament with their assist, and later he joined the Party. Due to party organizing with renewed effort in 1932 and meetings next year the Independent Small-holder Party launched in every considerable village in the county by the end of 1933. (Translated by Schaferné Веке Katalin) 346