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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meeting of the Council of Ministers dated 27th January 1905, government members decided to resign. The small, but more active Romanian front was also the winner of the 1905 elections, along with the Party of Independence. Expressed in figures: nine Romanian representatives had been elected with the programme of the ruling party, thanks to Tisza, another eight people obtained a mandate purely on a nationality basis. Seeing that the Liberal Party became a minority, the Romanian representatives had no interest in remaining in the losing party. Several of them took steps to join the representatives, chosen with the nationality programme. The Croatian representatives came to a similar conclusion. In the meeting of the Liberal Party on 20th February 1905 Tisza announced that in the distribution of parliamentary posts: „the Croatian representatives are organising themselves as a separate group, and therefore they are going to mix directly with the allied opposition regarding the nominations.” The leaders of the election winning allied parties had been working on the development of a keynote programme that they wished to forward to the Steering Committee, convened for 6th February. The political direction to follow was determined by the elections, since most of the voters favoured the programme of 1867. Nevertheless, the will of the mandate doubling Party of Independence had to be taken into account to a greater extent. It was Gyula Andrássy’s task to unite the several parties of the new political forces with different principles. It could be foreseen that the future Prime Minister would have difficulties to come to an agreement with the members of the People’s Party and the New Party, and the possible coaltition of the parties with the programme of 1867 would be resented by Ferenc Kossuth and his associates. The Monarch revealed to Andrássy that he would be willing to accept a coalition government, but only if military questions would not be discussed. This condition was not acceptable for Ferenc Kossuth. After the unsuccessful negotiations of István Burián, it was considered a fact in political public life that the Monarch, under the pressure of necessity, would appoint Baron Géza Fejérváry as the head of an acting government. During the royal audience held on 2nd June 1905, the Monarch had accepted Prime Minister István Tisza’s proposal, which stated that Géza Fejérváry’s negotiations that lasted several days about the new government composition, had been successful, therefore at the end of the audience the Tisza government received its final release. The parliamentary introduction of the Fejérváry-government took place on 21st June 1905. The Monarch justified his choice of the government by stating that the parties that formed the majority of the representatives ‘did not suggest a government programme, based on which I could have confidently entrusted the fate of the nation to the government formed by them’. The Monarch hereinafter states that ’he would welcome the proposal of the majority of the representatives in governmental and economical reform questions’, but in military questions, further favours as that of already given to the Tisza government should not be expected. It follows from all this, that the only task of the Fejérváry government was: ’to make preparations for an agreement within the beforementioned borders, by negotiating with the political parties and hereby facilitate the appointment of a majority government.’ 824
