He became the last field marshal (Generalfeldmarschall) of the Austro-Hungarian Army on October 24, 1918, as an attempt by Kaiser Karl to calm Hungarian nationalists.
The first priority on Drăghici's agenda was dealing with the "Hungarian nationalists" or "Magyar chauvinists".
As a result of his statements, he came under attack from Hungarian nationalists.
In the Habsburg empire a compromise was reached with Hungarian nationalists in 1867 granting them a virtually independent state.
A source of irritation to Hungarian nationalists, the statue was the focal point of tensions in 1886.
In 1884 he was elected to Croatian Parliament and he spent most of his political career opposing the Hungarian nationalists.
The Hungarian nationalists employed this theory of Shakhmatov against the Slovenes as part of magyarization of the Slovene March.
Hungarian nationalists desired to recover territories lost through the Trianon Treaty.
These theories are often used to back competing claims by Hungarian and Romanian nationalists.
Only a few weeks earlier, there had been serious disturbances in the Tirgu-Mureş area of Transylvania with fighting between rival groups of Romanian and Hungarian nationalists.