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What would happen to the Hapsburg Empire if they failed to make the Ausgleich in 1867?
They still lost the 1859 and 1866 wars - i dont want a POD there.
You can have either the hungarians refuse which i think is easier or the Habsburgs. This i think is more unlikely because any other stabilizing solution would be even less to Franz Joseph liking.
How long could absolutism continue? What alternate solution might they try?
I want to add that from the hungarian side the Ausgleich was the absolute minimum they were willing to accept at the time. We are dealing with people still dreaming about the liberties they briefly acquired in 1848-49. And they absolutly refuse to acknowlidge the destruction of their state - what a truly centralised empire would mean. In their mind Hungary has been an independent kingdom since a millenia that just happened to be ruled by the Habsburgs for the last few centuries - and i have to add that from legal percpective they are mostly right. They would absolutly refuse to send delegates to a joint imperial parlaiment.