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All 96 SPD members of parliament voted against the act ; the rest of the Reichstag ( besides the Communists, who were barred from voting ) voted in favour.

The passage of the Enabling Act marked the end of parliamentary democracy in Germany and formed the legal authority for Hitler's dictatorship.

Within weeks of the passage of the Enabling Act, the Hitler government banned the SPD, while the other German political parties chose to dissolve to avoid prosecution, making the Nazi party the only legal political party in Germany.