The study reconstructs the 1923 election in Cegl\u00e9d, which was marked by nationally famous incidents, with the help of the legacy of Istv\u00e1n Lendvai, a racist publicist, and contemporary press articles. In addition to the election events, the intellectual portrait of Istv\u00e1n Lendvai, the conditions in the Cegl\u00e9d constituency and the electoral law, amended in 1922 to serve the interests of the Bethlen government, are briefly described. In the course of reviewing the events, the irregularities of the elections of the period are outlined: both the abuses by the ruling party and the threatening actions of the Association of Awakening Hungarians supporting the racist candidate. As a result, the campaign in Cegl\u00e9d became a prestige battle between the two parties \u2013 the left-wing and liberal forces were doomed to defeat from the start \u2013 which often also entailed the risk of a clash between the police and Lendvai’s supporters. The national scale of the election is illustrated by the mobilization of several government ministers \u2013 in addition to the security forces \u2013 to support the candidate of the Unity Party (Egys\u00e9ges P\u00e1rt) with their personal presence; while on the other side, the Unity Party also appears in the person of Gyula G\u00f6mb\u00f6s, who is now campaigning for Lendvai against his own party, together with people who would later become members of the Hungarian National Independence Party (Magyar Nemzeti F\u00fcggetlens\u00e9gi P\u00e1rt). In short, the election in Cegl\u00e9d was also an important stage in the organization of the racist group into a party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The study reconstructs the 1923 election in Cegl\u00e9d, which was marked by nationally famous incidents, with the help of the legacy of Istv\u00e1n Lendvai, a racist publicist, and contemporary press articles. In addition to the election events, the intellectual portrait of Istv\u00e1n Lendvai, the conditions in the Cegl\u00e9d constituency and the electoral law, amended in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555,568],"tags":[],"post_year":[926],"coauthors":[932],"class_list":["post-7025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum-social-science-review","category-studies","post_year-2024-3"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n