Angyal Béla: Érdekvédelem és önszerveződés. Fejezetek a csehszlovákiai magyar pártpolitika történetéből 1918-1938 - Nostra Tempora 6. (Galánta-Dunaszerdahely, 2002)
Magyar-szlovák helységnévjegyzék
346 Summary and as the results of their own inner power relations. Only after nine years the Hungarian governmental circles could achieve that the Hungarian parties drew up a joint list during the National Assembly elections. It took almost one and a half decades to unite the Hungarian parties in Slovakia that had been their wish from the beginnings. Thus, the Hungarian opposition parties in Czechoslovakia cannot be viewed as organisations established only by the Hungarian government, since they had their Upper Hungarian roots and characteristics, and the influences of the Czechoslovak internal affairs were also present. From the two Hungarian parties to the elections of 1935, the National Christian-Socialist Party, which was significantly supported by the Catholic Church, had a larger electoral basis. First of all, it was supported by the Catholic Hungarian people and by the Slovak and German population in a smaller extent. The influence was stronger in the towns. The Hungarian National Party was prevailing mainly in the circles of Calvinist and Lutheran Hungarian people, mainly in Gömör county, and in those south-west districts, where the community was of strong Calvinistic religion. The party’s electoral basis was mostly of village character. The most supporters were the richer layers of village people. The German Party of Spis had a strong influence under the Tatras, although it was present only in one-or-two districts. 80- 90 per cent of Germans in Spiš in the 1920’s supported the Hungarian-German party coalition. It had almost no influence on the German population of other areas. In the second part of the 30’s, it had to fight with the Sudeten German Party - that was spreading also in Slovakia - for the vote of German voters even in Spiš. In Sub- Carpathia the Hungarian parties could count with 50-60 per cent of the votes of members of the Hungarian minority. The Hungarian civic parties, that between the two World Wars were the legitimate representatives of the Hungarian minority, in fact they represented about two-thirds of Hungarians. A change occurred only in the last months of Czechoslovakia, when the United Hungarian Party had success in the Hungarian areas. In his work, Béla Angyal introduces the frames of financial support provided by the Hungarian government to the Hungarian people living in Czechoslovakia and within these frames the implemented strategies between the two World Wars. In connection with the financial support in Czechoslovakia, the Hungarian opposition political parties were the most important institutions that the Hungarian government regarded as the official representatives of the minority. At the territories annexed to Czechoslovakia the support from
