The Rhineland-Palatinate Landtag is the state

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of the German federal state of

Rhineland-Palatinate Rhineland-Palatinate ( , ; german: link=no, Rheinland-Pfalz ; lb, Rheinland-Pfalz ; pfl, Rhoilond-Palz) is a western state of Germany. It covers and has about 4.05 million residents. It is the ninth largest and sixth most populous of the ...

. Article 79, Section 1 of the Rhineland-Palatinate

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provides: "The

Landtag A Landtag (State Diet) is generally the legislative assembly or parliament of a federated state or other subnational self-governing entity in German-speaking nations. It is usually a unicameral assembly exercising legislative competence in non- ...

is the supreme organ of political decision-making, elected by the people. It represents the people, elects the Minister-President and confirms the cabinet, passes the laws and the budget, controls the executive and enunciates the popular will in the conduct of public affairs, in questions of European policy and according to the agreements between the Landtag and the cabinet." The Landtag consists of 101 members. The Landtag convenes in the Deutschhaus building, where also the first democratically elected parliament German history had convened, the ''Rhenish-German national convention'' of the Mainz Republic. Parts of its administration are located in the old arsenal. The German flag used in the Landtag is a historical one used during the Hambacher Fest.

Composition

After the elections of March 14, 2021, the composition of the Landtag is as follows: Political groups in bold support the state's coalition government. Since 2011 the

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is used for allocating seats in party-list proportional representation. The parliamentary groups are chaired by (SPD), Christian Baldauf (CDU), (AfD), Cornelia Willius-Senzer (FDP), and (Greens).

Presidents of the Landtag

* 1947–1948 Jakob Diel, CDU * 1948–1959 August Wolters, CDU * 1959–1971

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, CDU * 1971–1974 Johannes Baptist Rösler, CDU * 1974–1985 Albrecht Martin, CDU * 1985–1991 Heinz Peter Volkert, CDU * 1991–2006

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, SPD * 2006–2016

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, SPD * since 2016 Hendrik Hering, SPD

References

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Composition

Presidents of the Landtag

See also

References