Survey of Important Internal Moments of the Process of Birth of the Specific Political System of Interwar Hungary (1919-1922)
Abstract
The foundations of the interwar, so called Horthyan Hungary were laid in the second half of 1919 and in the first third of 1920. The Christian-national political course that seized power in the country in August 1919 arbitrarily was by its birth.
But its central power-political role in the country was later confirmed by the first ordinary postwar parliamentary elections in January 1920. The final institutional-legal form of postwar Hungary was then codified by the basic legal article of institutional-legal character of interwar Hungary by the end of February 1920.
Hungary claimed allegiance to dualistic Hungary from the period before 31 October 1918 by the law. It remained monarchy, although without king, only with temporary head of state in the position of regent.
So the restoration of standard limits of the internal function of the state was completed and the path towards final general consolidation of postwar Hungary could be started. The foundations of internal consolidation of the country were completed in 1920-1922, by the second postwar parliamentary elections in 1922.
The set limits of the political system of so called Horthyan Hungary, strengthened together with stabilization of economic life in further years of the first half of the twentieths of the 20th century gave a frame to civic parliamentarianism, which was nevertheless restricted by the antidemocratic principles of work of its standard institutions. So the interwar, so called Horthyan Hungary was semi-authoritative state, but not totalitarian state with fascist and national-socialist elements.