The political situation in which political parties in the rural areas of Carniola were formed at the end of the previous
century was characterised to a great degree by personal conflicts of a local nature. During the process of division into the
Catholic and the Liberal bloc, such personal disputes and antipathies also exerted a strong influence on the religious lives
of individual local communities, while the intensive nature of religious life, in its turn, influenced the political situation
within these communities.