REPREZENTARE ŞI PARTICIPARE POLITICĂ. ROMÂNII ÎN CONSILIUL IMPERIAL DIN VIENA (1861-1873)
BETWEEN CENTRALISM AND FEDERALISM. THE ROMANIANS IN THE IMPERIAL COUNCIL (REICHSRAT) IN VIENNA FROM 1861 TO 1873

Summary/Abstract: In the Habsburg Monarchy and thus in Bukovina there were no political party formed before the seventh decade of the 19th century, but the birth of the parties was closely linked to early parliamentary activity. The oscillation of the Crown between the federalist provisions of the diploma of October 1860 and those of the liberal-centralist imperial patent of February 1861 put in the center of debate in the Parliament in Vienna the issue of the form of state establishment. This constitutional law dispute, between federalism and centralism, had a decisive role in forming the political groups in the Chamber of Deputies, and under the impetus of what was happening in the imperial capital and the provincial diets. The representation of the Romanians in the Imperial Council in Vienna was the result of the development of the parliamentary system and of the course of the Habsburg Monarchy’s political life in the seventh decade of the 19th century. The “two-party” system was the trait that characterized the politics of the Austrian monarchy in the first decade after the establishment of parliamentary representation in 1861. Depending on their own choices, the Romanian deputies from Bukovina in the Chamber of Deputies opted for either centralists or federalists and actively campaigned for the imposition of these ideas in political life. Sometimes national interests and those of the province have been above the political ones, binding politicians with contrary options.

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