Baják László Ihász István: The Hungarian National Museum History Exhibition Guide 4 - The short century of survival (1900-1990) (Budapest, 2008)

Room 16. From the Belle Epoch to the Collapse of the Monarchy (1900-1919). László Baják

erty and intellectual census, in Hungary only a mere 6-7% of the population had the right to vote. However, the government was reluctant to grant the universal suffrage demanded by the radical bourgeoisie and the social democrats, since it would have given the minorities and the socialists a majority in parliament and possibly have led to the breakdown of dualism. Soon the independence party split into two factions, the more radical being led by Gyula Justh and the more moderate by Ferenc Kossuth and Albert Apponyi. Finally, the fate of the coalition government was sealed by the failure to create an independent Hungarian issuing bank. Financial matters were among the Monarchy's joint matters, and so the king prevented the plan from being realised. Deserting the incompetent coalition, the allegiance of the voters finally reverted to the Invitation to the 1909 March celebrations of the Citizens' Radical Galilei Circle