Liberal Party (Hungary)
The Liberal Party (Hungarian Szabadelvű part) of the Kingdom of Hungary was founded on March 1, 1875 by Kálmán Tisza. The, also known as Freedom Party grouping left of center was a reservoir for the lower nobility and economic driving. They had emerged from the political group led by Ferenc Deák, so the Austro- Hungarian balancing the favorable political forces of Hungarian politics. The Liberal Party presented continuously until 1905 the Hungarian Prime Minister and the majority of the cabinet members.
It represented an oriented towards the interests of the Magyar upper strata of society and politics was neither interested in nor democratization of equality of the other nationalities in the countries of the Hungarian Crown, although they accounted for about half of the population. Rather, it was the party of Magyarization. This was made possible by a reactionary electoral law that allowed only the privileged part of the population to vote, yet in 1913 were only 7.7 % of the total population were eligible to vote or hold public office.
Kálmán Tisza István son took over the party as political heir and was like his father, longtime Hungarian Prime Minister.
In the Hungarian parliamentary elections in January 1905, the Liberal Party lost for the first time since the 1867 settlement of its majority, the Independence Party led a coalition with a majority in the Reichstag Budapest. This led to the Hungarian crisis in 1905. Approximately one-third of the deputies of the dualism pledged Liberal Party changed in the camp of the coalition, which thus had a three-quarters majority. In response, the party broke up on April 11, 1906, Tisza and László Lukács founded in 1910 as the successor organization to the Party of National Work.