The parliament of the Austrian half of the empire was suspended indefinitely and thus disabled. The government ruled with the aid of emergency legislation, introducing a bureaucratic authoritarian state.
Faced by authoritarian tendencies amongst the leaders of government and the demands of the omnipotent military apparatus, Emperor Karl could offer little in the way of resistance but his own good will.
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