Goga cabinet

However, the King miscalculated the impact of the Anti-Semitic measures of the Goga cabinet, which he had to deal with throughout his personal regime (the so-called royal dictatorship) that he established on 10 February 1938.

As a result, the Goga cabinet damaged the Romanian economy and the relations with France, Great Britain, and the League of Nations and strengthened the Iron Guard.

Its revision of the Romanian citizenship, as implemented by King Carol II's personal regime, denaturalised 225,222 Jews, i.e., approximately 30% of the population of Jewish faith.

However, he soon abandoned Goga, preparing a coup together with the minister of the Interior Armand Călinescu, a former member of the National Peasants' Party, who acted as a guarantee for the king in the government.

The coup was probably precipitated when Goga negotiated an electoral agreement with Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, the leader of the Iron Guard, on 8 February 1938, thus posing a considerable threat to the king's power.