His tenure coincided with a period of political instability in Hungary immediately after World War I, during which several successive governments ruled the country.
[1] After the end of the Hungarian Soviet Republic, he took again the Ministry of Education and Religions in the government of István Friedrich, between August and November 1919.
[2][3] Thanks to the mediation of the envoy of the Entente, a coalition government was formed on 23 November with Huszár as its head,[4] despite no political experience in this area,[5] although he had once been a teacher.
[2] In the face of persecution and a lack of support in the countryside, the Social Democrats decided not to stand for election,[2] which the progressive parties still won.
[2] The Social Democrats had remained in government only because of the country's grave situation and with the aim of moderating counterrevolutionary tendencies, but on 18 December 1919, they had been about to withdraw their ministers from the cabinet, which they eventually did the following month, on 15 January, before the political trials, electoral irregularities and the attack on the printing press of the party.
[6] Both Horthy and Huszár were convinced of the need to sign the peace treaty, the conditions of which were presented to the Hungarian delegation on 16 January.
[8] The conference had approved the clauses almost a year before 26 February 1919, and these were based on the premise of self-determination of minorities, regardless of other criteria such as geographical or economic.
[8] The government of Huszár denied that the minorities wished to join neighbouring countries and that they constituted majorities in some of the areas planned to be transferred over to them, and he requested the holding of plebiscites (October to February 1920).