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25-713: The Lower Saxon Landtag ( Niedersächsischer Landtag ) or the Parliament of Lower Saxony is the state diet of the German state of Lower Saxony . It convenes in Hanover and currently consists of 146 members, consisting of four parties. Since 2022 the majority is a coalition of the Social Democratic Party and the Greens , supporting the cabinet of Minister-President Stephan Weil (SPD). The Landtag
50-555: A proportional representation system , with a minimum of 5% vote share to receive any seats in the Landtag. Currently, the Social Democratic Party and the Greens have a government with 81 out of 146 seats (55.5%). So far, the presidents of the Landtag of Lower Saxony have been: Diet (assembly) In politics , a diet ( / ˈ d aɪ . ə t / DY -ət ) is a formal deliberative assembly . The term
75-493: A license by 26 February 1861 that created an Imperial Parliament (composed of the House and Senate) with extensive legislative powers—this drastically reduced the powers that were previously planned for the provincial assembly. Within this patent, 15 were approved statutes of the reconstituted provincial assembly, with its Sabor regulations, and this provided for an electoral system that only granted voting rights to those who could pay
100-929: A minimal fee. The electoral system was based on four curiae that represented various social bodies (the seat of the Diet was Zara): The electoral system favoured the bourgeois and aristocratic classes, as well as the urban population over people in rural areas. Between 24 March 1861 and 30 March 1861, the first elections for the provincial assembly of Dalmatia were held—the Dalmatian parliamentary election of 1861. The separatists won 29 seats out of 41. From Zadar : From Split : From Šibenik : From Makarska From Dubrovnik : From Korčula : From Hvar : From Skradin : From Drniš : From Trogir : From Sinj : From Imotski : From Dubrovnik: From Kotor: From Benkovac : From Drnis: From Vrgorac : From Cavtat : From Ston : From Budva : President of
125-519: A possible meeting with Croatia. Ivan Mažuranić, chairman of the department courtly for Croatia-Slavonia, pleaded in support of the cause, supported by Foreign Minister Bernhard von Rechberg ; von Rechberg considered the need for the union to counter an alleged "Italian threat" against the Dalmatian as necessary. Rechberg further claimed that such action would strengthen the Slavic element in Dalmatia that
150-507: A provincial assembly—was able to express its political will. An agreement was also made, whereby a political representation of Dalmatia was sent to Zagreb to discuss the issue at a conference chaired by the Ban of Croatia, the highest political authority in the territory of Croatia-Slavonia. The imperial autograph produced various representations in Dalmatian cities. It was particularly the city of Split congregation—led by Antonio Bajamonti —that
175-592: Is situated in the Leineschloss , a former residence of the kings of Hanover . After its destruction in World War II it was rebuilt from 1957 to 1962. Thus, from 1947 to 1962, the parliament of Lower Saxony convened in a convention centre ( Stadthalle Hannover ). After the elections of 9 October 2022 the composition of the Lower Saxony Landtag is as follows: Elections are conducted using
200-936: Is used historically for deliberative assemblies such as the German Imperial Diet (the general assembly of the Imperial Estates of the Holy Roman Empire ), as well as a designation for modern-day legislative bodies of certain countries and states such as the National Diet of Japan , or the German Bundestag , the Federal Diet. The term (also in the nutritional sense) might be derived from Medieval Latin dieta , meaning both "parliamentary assembly" and "daily food allowance", from earlier Latin diaeta , possibly from
225-1205: The Imperial Diet assemblies of the Holy Roman Empire : After the Second Peace of Thorn of 1466, a German-language Prussian diet Landtag was held in the lands of Royal Prussia , a province of Poland in personal union with the king of Poland . The Croatian word for a legislative assembly is sabor (from the verb sabrati se , "to assemble"); in historic contexts it is often translated with "diet" in English, as in "the Diet of Dalmatia " ( Dalmatinski sabor ), "the Croatian Diet" ( Hrvatski sabor ), "the Hungarian-Croatian Diet" ( Ugarsko-hrvatski sabor ), or Diet of Bosnia ( Bosansko-hercegovački sabor ). The Diet of Hungary , customarily called together every three years in Székesfehérvár , Buda or Pressburg ,
250-782: The Autonomist Party in the Dalmatian parliamentary election of 1867: Girolamo Alesani (1869–1870), Antonio Bajamonti, Cosimo de Begna Possedaria, Vittorio Bioni, Agostino Cindro, Giuseppe Descovich (1867–1868), Stefano Doimi (1867–1869), Giovanni Fanfogna, Gaetano Frari, Luigi Frari , Giacomo Ghiglianovich, Giorgio Giovannizio, Stefano Knezevich (Croatian People's Party), Luigi Lapenna, Enrico Matcovich, Pietro Doimo Maupas, Andrea Nicolich, Spiridione Petrovich, Giuseppe Piperata, Antonio Radman, Antonio Rolli, Simeone de Rossignoli, Giovanni Salghetti-Drioli, Luigi Serragli, Giacomo Vucovich, Vincenzo Vuletich and Giovanni Zaffron. President of Diet: Spiro Petrović (Autonomist Party) President of
275-441: The Autonomist Party in the Dalmatian parliamentary election of 1883: Antonio Bajamonti (1888), Gustavo Ivanich (1883–1885), Michele Kapovich (1883-1889), Pietro Doimo Maupas, Giuseppe Messa, Giuseppe Pezzi, Antonio Radman (1885–1886), Luigi Serragli (1883–1885), Leopoldo Stermich and Niccolò Trigari. President: Đorđe Vojnović (Serb Party) Vice president: Michele Kapovich (Autonomist Party) The Dalmatian Slavs were divided for
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#1732791979747300-776: The Diet: Stjepan Mitrov Ljubiša (People's Party) Elected from the Autonomist Party in the Dalmatian parliamentary election of 1870: Vincenzo Alesani, Antonio Bajamonti, Cosimo de Begna Possedaria (1870–1873), Natale Filippi (1870–1873), Gaetano Frari, Matteo Gligo, Stefano Knezevich, Andrea Krussevich (1872–1873 e 1875-1876), Francesco Lanza (1870–1874), Luigi Lapenna (1872–1873), Pietro Doimo Maupas, Luigi Mery, Francesco Milcovich (1874–1876), Giuseppe Mladineo (1871–1874), Luigi Nutrizio (1875–1876), Giuseppe Piperata (1871–1873), Valerio Ponte (1870-1870), Giuseppe Radman (1874–1876), Simeone Rossignoli (1874–1876), Niccolò Trigari (1874–1876) and Vincenzo Vuletich (1871–1876). For
325-1146: The Diet: Spiro Petrović (Autonomist Party) On 18 April 1861, the Diet passed a motion submitted by Baiamonti and Galvani to reject the request for a unification of Dalmatian with Croatia and Slavonia—only two dissenting votes were submitted. Elected from the Autonomist Party in the Dalmatian parliamentary election of 1864: Girolamo Alesani (1864–1866), Antonio Bajamonti, Cosimo de Begna Possedaria, Vittorio Bioni, Orsatto Bonda, Giuseppe Descovich (1866–1867), Melchiorre Difnico, Pietro Doimi, Stefano Doimi, Giovanni Fanfogna, Natale Filippi (1866–1867), Antonio Galvani, Giacomo Ghiglianovich (1866–1867), Nicola Lallich, Francesco Lanza, Luigi Lapenna (1864–1866), Giovanni Battista Macchiedo (or Machiedo), Pietro Doimo Maupas, Luigi Mery, Simeone Michieli Vitturi, Andrea Nicolich, Spiridione Petrovich, Giuseppe Piperata, Valerio Ponte, Giovanni Radmilli, Simeone Rossignoli, Luigi Serragli, Antonio Stermich, Giacomo Vucovich, Vincenzo Vuletich, Ivan Zaffron and Francesco Zanchi. President of Diet: Spiro Petrović (Autonomist Party) Elected from
350-524: The Empire underwent a form of "federalization", following the majority opinion of the Board Empire. According to these determinations, many legislative and judicial powers were conferred onto every province in the kingdom through the reconstitution of the powers—or the creation of new powers—as part of the formation of a proper Diet. In Croatia, the imperial law, accompanied by the first convocation of
375-474: The Greek διαιτησία (= arbitration), or transcribing Classical Greek δίαιτα diaita , meaning "way of living", and hence also "diet", "regular (daily) work". Through a false etymology , reflected in the spelling change replacing ae with e , the word "diet" came to be associated with Latin dies , "day". It came to be used in postclassical Europe in the sense of "an assembly" because of its use for
400-845: The Italian schools in Dalmatia, with the exception of those in Zadar. It was during this period that Miho Klaic , the head of the People's Party (from Dubrovnik ), delivered a speech to the Diet in which he spoke of the increase in the population of Dalmatian Italians in Dalmatia. Elected from the Autonomist Party in the Dalmatian parliamentary election of 1876: Pietro Abelich, Antonio Bajamonti, Cosimo de Begna Possedaria (1878–1880), Giovanni Botteri, Gustavo Ivanich, Stefano Knezevich, Pietro Doimo Maupas, Cesare Pellegrini Danieli, Giovanni Smerchinich and Niccolò Trigari. President: Đorđe Vojnović (People's Party—renamed "Serb Party" after 1879) Elected from
425-472: The case that the annexation of Croatia should not proceed. Meanwhile, the imperial court began to fear that the granting of overly broad powers to the diets would facilitate the unleashing of domestic forces, thereby reducing the authority of the emperor. In February 1861, several meetings of the Council of Ministers of Austria were held, in which the attendees discussed, at length, the problem of Dalmatia and
450-425: The demise of the Empire. Since the founding of the Dalmatian diet, the pro-Italian Autonomist Party held the parliamentary majority until 1870, when the (Croatian-Serbian) People's Party won the parliamentary election. Croatian then became the official language of the diet in 1883. Under the constitutional reforms promoted by Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria , under an imperial decree dated 20 October 1860,
475-468: The first time, the People's Party won the Dalmatian election; however, the Croat majority did not recognise the validity of the election of many representatives from the Autonomist Party and this resulted in a series of resignations and replacements, in addition to a tense political environment. The Diets held power over the schools within the Empire and, due to the political situation of the time, closed all of
500-512: The local diet, was warmly welcomed. An imperial autograph in Vienna on 5 December 1860 created: a 'courtly department' (ministry) for Croatia-Slavonia ; introduced the Croatian language in the administration of these territories; and declared that the demands of rebuilding the ancient tiara-Slavonia-Croatian Dalmatian be accommodated, thereby postponing a final decision, when Dalmatia—still lacking
525-588: The mid-19th century. The Polish-Lithuanian Sejm was sometimes called a diet. Diet of Dalmatia The Diet of Dalmatia ( Croatian : Dalmatinski sabor , Italian : Dieta della Dalmazia ) was the regional assembly of the Kingdom of Dalmatia within the Austro-Hungarian Empire . It was founded in Zadar in 1861 and last convened in 1912, before being formally dissolved in 1918, with
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#1732791979747550-641: The work of an assembly meeting on a daily basis or a given day of the time period, and hence for the assembly itself. The association with dies is reflected in the German language 's use of Tagung (meeting) and -tag , meaning "day", as in Montag —Monday, and also "parliament", "council", or other legislative chamber, as in Bundestag or Reichstag for national parliaments, and Landtag for regional assemblies. In this sense, it commonly refers to
575-780: Was also called "Diéta" in the Habsburg Empire before the 1848 revolution . The Riksdag of the Estates was the diet of the four estates of Sweden , from the 15th century until 1866. The Diet of Finland was the successor to the Riksdag of the Estates in the Grand Duchy of Finland , from 1809 to 1906. The Swiss legislature was the Tagsatzung (French: Diète ) before the Federal Assembly replaced it in
600-431: Was distinguished by the bitterness of protests. The protestors appealed to Francis Joseph to convene the provincial assembly of Dalmatia before taking a decision on the constitutional arrangements of the province within the Empire. On the basis of Split, most of the Dalmatian municipalities refused to send their representatives to Zagreb; instead, these municipalities decided to form a delegation that went to Vienna to argue
625-487: Was loyal to Austria. The positions of the Dalmatian separatists were supported by Liberal Party politicians, who managed to persuade the emperor to postpone the decision; a provincial Dalmatian assembly was subsequently set up and it would later negotiate with Croatian representatives in regard to the possibility of unification. On the recommendation of the German-speaking Liberals, Francis Joseph issued
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