A third faction, the "unitary socialists", sought to maintain the unity of the movement, requested new discussions on the issue of the affiliation, and equal representation of each faction in a provisional executive committee. The communist motion received most votes (18, as opposed to 8 for the social-democrats and 12 for the unitary socialists), and a further attempt to reconcile the faction coming from the unitary socialists was rejected by the others. The eight social-democratic representatives, which included delegates from all the regional parties, declared themselves outside of the party, and constituted a "Provisional Committee of the Romanian Social-Democracy", while the communists and unitary socialist continued in the "General Council", preparing for the long overdue national Congress. The Transylvanian sections that remained under the control of the social-democratic leaders dismissed the decisions of the August 1920 Congress and reorganised the "Socialist Party of Transylvania", while similar steps were taken by the sections in Banat, which re-constituted the "Socialist Party of Banat". Each party sent one delegate to the founding conference of the International Working Union of Socialist Parties (the 'Two-and-half International') in Vienna in February 1921. Furthermore, ten of the socialist deputies and all the three senators in the Romanian Parliament constituted a distinct parliamentary group in March. During a Congress in Ploiești in June 19–21, 1921, the two parties, along with the Social Democratic Party of Bukovina and a reconstituted Social Democratic Party in parts of Old Romania, formed the "Federation of Romanian Socialist Parties", adopting a common reformist programme and affiliating to the Two-and-half International. The Federation was joined during the Bucharest Conference of 27–28 August by the reorganised "Socialist Party of Romania", constituted from most of the unitary socialists in Old Romania that did not agree to the unconditional affiliation to the Third International of the original party. In early 1922, the Transylvanian party had an estimated 2,000 members. In 1927 the Federation of Socialist Parties and its constituent parties merged into a new Social Democratic Party. In Transylvania and Banat, several sections - including the ones in Cluj, Arad, Brașov, Oradea, Târgu Mureș, and Timișoara - continued to support the "General Council", condemned the decision of the social-democratic faction (which included an important part of the Transylvanian delegates in the Council), and, on February 12, constituted the Provisional Transylvanian Council of the Romanian Socialist Party in Cluj.