The paper shows the political crisis of dualism in a multinational Austro-Hungary that was in-itiated by the political opposition of the Magyar magnates in the Hungarian Parliament. It was initiated by the large land owners-magnates with the claim to introduce the Magyar language as the language of command within the Hungarian army. The claim implicated the split of the united army and dispute of the joint chief commander, the Emperor Francis Joseph. The issue of the Magyar language was, for this reason, primarily a political question that subsequently meant the further weakening of political ties with the western half of the Monarchy until the complete separation of Hungary. The Emperor opposed this, announcing a new electoral law that wou...