Handkerchief vote

The opposition responded to this alleged injustice with so-called obstruction or filibustering with the aim of stopping or delaying the adoption of new legislation.

During the following commotion, the President of the House of Representatives, Dezső Perczel, suddenly declared that the proposal had been adopted and that the session was suspended.

This manoeuvre caused much commotion and Kálmán Széll and Gyula Andrássy left the Liberal Party to join the opposition.

Other members of the House of Representatives, such as Gyula Wlassics, Pál Teleki and Miklós Bánffy also left the Liberal Party.

Initially, under the leadership of Gyula Andrássy, they called themselves the "Dissidents" and joined the united opposition, the "Coalition," in the 1905 elections.

Eventually the king appointed a new government under the leadership of the officer Géza Fejérváry, who did not have a parliamentary majority.