The text is based on local surveys carried out in a two-faith community. The local structures — both spatial and political — are affected by the presence of two churches: the Roman Catholic and the Old-Catholic Mariavite. A century of coexistence between the communities formed a strong bilateral dependence with local politics. Finally, politics becomes a factionalism where “political” does not equal “ideological”. The local Right and Left wings are largely identified by which of the individual actors belongs to which particular church. Factional locality makes the secular leadership weak. The struggle between the opposing factions results in the manipulation of political and private areas, and due to this it affects interference in the status quo of the “common inhabitants”.
