Aspecte ale alegerilor din noiembrie 1946 în judeţul Timiş-Torontal
Aspects of the November 1946 elections in Timiş-Torontal County

Summary/Abstract: The year 1946 was, par excellence, marked by the parliamentary election, imposed by the Allies, the date of which was changed several times. Benefiting from the longest electoral campaign and imposing – on the list of the Bloc of Democratic Parties – leading figures of this new alliance, the Communist Party, which led it from the shadows, spent colossal sums, against the background of generalized poberty, in the hope of winning the elections honest. The communists used a huge propaganda apparatus, as well as a series of administrative measures aimed at ensuring their success, proceeding with the abolition of the Senate, existing since 1864, but also with a series of harassments against the opposition, both at the central level and local, which often took violent forms. Despite countless abuses, the alliance lost the elections to the National-Peasant Party led by Iuliu Maniu, but opted for the Soviet,,solution” to solve the problem: reversing the numbers and destroying the evidence. The,,winning” of the elections by the communists and their satellites, of course with the contribution of their,,companions” (the National Liberal Party – Gheorghe Tătărescu and the National Peasant Party – Anton Alexandrescu) opened the way to the full conquest of political power, at the end of 1947, together with the forced abdication of King Mihai I and the proclamation of the Romanian People's Republic, following the Soviet model.

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