Social Democratic Party of Austria Hitler was increasingly influencing political affairs in Austria. Nazi Germany was increasing the pressure by scheming and manipulating political events, as well as planning and carrying out terrorist attacks on infrastructure within Austria. The successor of Dollfuß, the conservative chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg tried a new round of talks with the outlawed social-democrats and even the monarchists, in order to stabilise the situation again. The Socialist favoured democracy, but were lukewarm to the concept of an independent Austria. The majority of conservatives wanted to keep an independent Austria, however in the form of an Austro-fascist regime. The extreme fighting and
Provincial Christian-Socialist Party , ) but got only 17,285 votes, not enough for a parliamentary seat. On June 21, 1936 the party merged with the Hungarian National Party into "Egyesült Magyar Párt" (EMP, "United Hungarian Party") led by János Esterházy as national executive chairman (until then leader of OKSZP) and Andor Jaross as national chairman. Provincial Christian-Socialist Party The Provincial Christian-Socialist Party (, OKSZP; ; ) was the main political party of ethnic Hungarians in the First Czechoslovak Republic. It was founded on 23 November 1919 in Košice, by the merger of Catholic associations from Bratislava and Košice, but the first party convention