THE GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 1270, sig. 110-12/96

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English Translation

243.) The most cumbersome thing was that the political parties, which did not understand their duties and their mission of control correctly, took the government and administration of the state into their own hands instead of the control of the government, and even ruled not only by becoming the bearers of the power of the Government by directly entering the government of their supporters and supporters. (often in an almost constitutional way)delegated, but also that they invaded all the organs of administration and government, the economic and financial institutions, the schools, the arts and even the ecclesiastical institutions, were almost legitimizing, that in the end they penetrated above all into the state birocracy of all degrees, they politicized around "partisanized". The consequences of this phenomenon are well known The parliaments lost their original function under the influence of the government of the parties. The political parties agreed on everything that should be freely negotiated in the parliaments, not only in their shot, which is natural, but also often among themselves outside the parliament, using the well-known practices of the so-called coalition system, The Parliament ceased to be a whole, even this insti tution became only a conglomerate of some isolated solid party organisms, which did not free and democratic, by free discussion and according to the general interests of the whole, but according to previous orders of the party political cligarchy.