Soós László (szerk.): Magyar Minisztertanácsi jegyzőkönyvek 1867-1918. A Khuen-Héderváry és a Tisza kormány minisztertanácsi jegyzőkönyvei - A Magyar Országos Levéltár kiadványai, II. Forráskiadványok 56. (Budapest, 2018)
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tary speeches and vote by names, banning disturbing representatives from the meeting room, and remission of salary for the time of banning were also listed. Limitation of negotiation time, introducing cloture: in case of budget and indemnity bills, the general dispute may take maximum six sittings, in cases of the different ministries 3 sittings, authorization law 3 sittings, and the dispute of the normal annual recruit offer was also expected to meet a deadline. On 18th November 1904 in the closed sitting of the parliament, members of the ruling party managed to conduct the vote on changing the house rules, by taking advantage of the opposition representatives’ din and dissoluted the parliament within minutes. When the oppositionists realised that they have been deceived and the voting had taken place without closing the dispute, it was too late, the parliamentary sitting was disposed by the president. In the morning on 19th November in the rooms of the Party of Independence, the opposition parties accepted the proposal of Gyula Justh, - besides keeping their programmes - created an anti-government coalition, and in order to realise the common goal, set up an executive committee called Steering Committee of the Allied Opposition, with 21 members. Members of the coalition included the Party of Independence led by Ferenc Kossuth, the Catholic People’s Party represented by Aladár Zichy, Dezső Bánffy’s New Party, Vilmos Vázsonyi’s Democratic Party, and the National Party led by Albert Apponyi. The violent vote of the house rules changes also surfaced the conflict within the Liberal Party, as a result Gyula Andrássy and Kálmán Széli, following the example of several representatives, left the ruling party. István Tisza set the date of the reading of the royal manuscript that ordered the new sitting of the parliament to 13rd December 1904. The opposition representatives arrived at the parliamentary sitting, protested the lawlessness committed on 18th November, and broke the desecrated presidential pulpit and the ministerial velvet chair into pieces. There was no hope for restoring the order of the parliament, and the government hoped to eradicate the political crisis from the results of the new parliamentary elections. Therefore, Prime Minister István Tisza handed his proposal regarding the dissolution of the parliament to the Monarch in the royal audition dated 29th December 1904. As a result of the hearing, the fourth session of the convened parliamentary sitting of 28th October 1901 was closed on 4th January 1905. The royal communication concerning the summoning of the new parliament for 15th February 1905 and the election decree of the Minister of Interior, were reported officially 5th January 1905. According to the decree, the parliamentary elections had tobe held between 26th January and 4th February 1905. In January 1905 the ruling party was defeated - for the first and last time in the era of Dualism - and it became clear that Tisza did not win the nation’s support because of the change of the house rules. According to the final results, in the 413 electoral districts, the following mandates were obtained: Liberal Party 161, Dissidents 27, New Party 13, People’s Party 25, Party of Independence 164, Romanian representatives 8, Slovakian representatives 1, Serbian representatives 1, Democratic Party 2, Socialist representatives i, non-party representatives 10 mandates. The significant loss of mandates of the Liberal Party made the situation of the Tisza government unsustainable, therefore in the 823
