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 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 took place in Bratislava in March 1920. Its two main programmatic goals was the implementation of Slovak autonomy and the defence of the Christian ideology against communism. Its first leaders was Lajos Körmendy‐Ékes, a great landowner from Košice, B. Toszt, a canon also from Košice, and Jenő Lelley, a lawyer from Nitra.