Clericals

Count Eduard Taaffe (Aug. 1879–Oct. 29, 1893) ruled with a coalition of Czechs, Poles, German Conservatives, and Clericals (Iron Ring).

3. Austria-Hungary 2001

It soon replaced the Liberals as the primary opposition to the Clericals.

c. The Low Countries 2001

The measure passed with Liberal support but estranged the Clericals.

c. The Low Countries 2001

The two Belgian parties (the Clericals and Liberals) united after a concordat with the pope gave the king the right to veto elections of bishops and the government introduced a restrictive press law.

d. The Low Countries 2001

The Left parties (Republicans, Socialists, Syndicalists, Communists) combined in a Popular Front and won a decisive victory over Conservative Republicans, Clericals, and Monarchists.

1935, Sept 2001

Clericals won a majority in the elections and replaced the Liberals in power until World War I. 11

c. The Low Countries 2001

The Clericals thus obtained all the seats both in the Senate and in the Chamber with the assistance of the Socialists and of the Liberals in turn.

Proportional Representation A Study in Methods of Election John H. Humphreys

Liberals by voting for the Clericals, whilst, in the election for the

Proportional Representation A Study in Methods of Election John H. Humphreys

Liberal electors at these elections voted everywhere at the second ballots for Clerical against Labour candidates, with the result that the Clericals won every one of the eighteen seats for Brussels, although the total number of Clerical electors in a total electorate of 202,000 was only 89,000, as against 40,000 Liberals and

Proportional Representation A Study in Methods of Election John H. Humphreys

Speaking of the General Election of 1904, the Rome correspondent of _The Morning Post_ pointed out that, in not a few constituencies, like the second division of Rome, a rally of Clericals at the second ballots enabled the Conservative Monarchists to triumph over the Socialists.

Proportional Representation A Study in Methods of Election John H. Humphreys