The Czech boycott of the Austrian parliament…
1876 CE to 1887 CE
They had used their position to block concessions to Czechs and Poles in the early days of the Dual Monarchy, and they further protect their interests in 1873 by altering the franchise law to increase the representation in parliament of their constituency—the urban, ethnically German population and assimilated Jews.
The Liberals' legislative program focuses on anticlerical measures, but conflict over foreign policy issues, not religious ones, caused the Liberals' fall from power in 1879.
The Liberals had opposed the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina—which was favored by the emperor—and claim certain powers in the conduct of foreign policy that Franz Joseph sees as an infringement on his sovereign authority.
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