République des conseils de Hongrie
After the establishment of the Hungarian Soviet Republic in March 1919, he was arrested; he was released later, and went into exile in Vienna. 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. He was then one of the leaders of the Christian National Union Party (KNEP), the ruling party for most of the 1920s.