The Rhineland-Palatinate Landtag is the state
diet of the German federal state of
Rhineland-Palatinate.
Article 79, Section 1 of the Rhineland-Palatinate
constitution provides: "The
Landtag 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
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. 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
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.
Since 2011 the
Webster/Sainte-Laguë method 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
Otto van Volxem
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The name is recorded fro ...
, CDU
* 1971–1974
Johannes Baptist Rösler, CDU
* 1974–1985
Albrecht Martin, CDU
* 1985–1991
Heinz Peter Volkert, CDU
* 1991–2006
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Notable people with the given name Christoph
* Christoph Bach (1613–1661), German musician
* Christoph Büchel (born 1966), Swiss artist
* Christoph Dientzenhofe ...
,
SPD
* 2006–2016
Joachim Mertes
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, SPD
* since 2016
Hendrik Hering, SPD
See also
*
List of Members of the Rhineland-Palatinate Landtag
References
Rhineland-Palatinate
Politics of Rhineland-Palatinate
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