Austria under National Socialism 400,000 Jews – Simple way out; vote National Socialist". The Christian Social Party had ruled from 1932 and Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuß had led them from 1932. The Social Democrats were no longer their only threat. The previous chancellor and priest Ignaz Seipel had worked towards an authoritarian state. Seipel based this on the Papal Encyclicals, Rerum novarum (1891) and Quadragesimo anno (1931). Abolition of the parliamentary system was necessary for this. A crisis in the Austrian parliament on the May 4, 1933 gave Dollfuß the opportunity he wanted. Later in May 1933 the Christian Social Union was converted to the
Christian National Socialist Front to the four won by the EKP. Christian National Socialist Front The Christian National Socialist Front (, KNSZF) was a far-right political party in Hungary during the late 1930s. The party was formed in 1937 as a breakaway from the new United Christian Party (EKP), which had been established as a merger of the Christian Economic and Social Party, the Christian Opposition and the National Legitimist Party earlier in the year. At the time of the 1939 elections it had five MPs, including Károly Maróthy-Meizler. The elections saw the party finish ahead of the EKP in terms of vote share,