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28-592: 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
56-405: 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 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
84-979: 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 ,
112-535: A German-speaking majority), a Landtag is a unicameral legislature for a constitutive federal state (Bundesland). In the Principality of Liechtenstein , the Landtag is the sole national parliament, because Liechtenstein has no federal structure due to its size. In most of the German constitutive federal states ( Bundesländer ), the unicameral legislature is called Landtag : In the German city states ,
140-659: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Diet (assembly) In politics , a diet ( / ˈ d aɪ . ə t / DY -ət ) is a formal deliberative assembly . The term 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
168-703: 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 the Imperial Diet assemblies of the Holy Roman Empire : After the Second Peace of Thorn of 1466,
196-1036: 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 . 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 Webster/Sainte-Laguë method is used for allocating seats in party-list proportional representation. The parliamentary groups are chaired by Alexander Schweitzer (SPD), Christian Baldauf (CDU), Uwe Junge [ de ] (AfD), Cornelia Willius-Senzer (FDP), and Bernhard Braun [ de ] (Greens). This article about government in Germany
224-704: 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 the Greek διαιτησία (= arbitration), or transcribing Classical Greek δίαιτα diaita , meaning "way of living", and hence also "diet", "regular (daily) work". Through
252-551: The Austrian capital Vienna (like Berlin) is both a city-state and a municipality , the Gemeinderat (municipal assembly) of Vienna also serves as the state Landtag. However, the city constitution states that municipal and state affairs are kept separate, and the two bodies hold separate meetings even though their memberships are identical. The representatives are elected in general, free, secret and direct ballots according to
280-755: The Duchies of Livonia , Estonia , Courland and Semigallia , and later the Russian Governorates of Livonia , Estonia and Courland . After the independence of Estonia and Latvia in 1918, they were ultimately replaced by the Riigikogu and the Saeima . In the contemporary Federal Republic of Germany , the Republic of Austria and the Italian Republic 's province of South Tyrol (with
308-764: The French 'exporting the revolution', and Napoleon was happy to maintain satellite monarchies in most German territories under his control (members of the Confederation of the Rhine ), the more democratic principles of the Enlightenment would have less effect in the German-speaking lands, or only much later. In 1815 the German Confederation ("Deutscher Bund") was founded as successor to
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#1732791577185336-658: The German Empire and Alsace-Lorraine (the " Reichsland Elsaß-Lothringen ") (from 1911) had Landtage as legislative authorities. The most important one was the Prussian Landtag . In the Weimar Republic (1919 – 1933) all German states had Landtage that were democratically elected by universal suffrage , and to which the state governments were responsible. After the Nazi seizure of power , they embarked on
364-605: The German Reichstag. The Finnish name is eduskunta . The first Landtag of the Livonian Confederation was called by archbishop of Riga Johannes Ambundii in 1419 and reconvened on a regular basis until the incorporation of Livonian lands into the Grand Duchy of Lithuania , Sweden and Denmark in 1561. Separate Landtags for Livonia , Courland and Estonia continued to exist as bodies of
392-530: The German word Tag , as such meetings were held at daylight and sometimes spanned several days. In feudal society, the formal class system was reflected in the composition of the Imperial States ' representative assemblies ( Landstände ), regardless of their name well described as estates of the realm : it was not intended as an elected reflection of public opinion, but a fixed expression of established power as recognized in formal privileges, including
420-594: The Holy Roman Empire. § 13 of the "Bundesakte" (the constitution of the German Confederation) forced the German states to pass constitutions and implement parliaments called Landstände or Landtage. The first constitution was passed in Nassau in 1814. Until 1841 ( Luxembourg ) all but two states got their constitution and parliaments. In 1871 the German Empire was founded. All 25 states of
448-670: The Reconstruction of the Reich " of 30 January 1934 that formally abolished all the Landtage and transferred the sovereignty of the states to the central government. Although the states themselves continued in existence, the federalism of the Republic was effectively supplanted by a unitary state . Under its original constitution , East Germany was a federal republic with five Länder , each with its own Landtag. Each Landtag
476-524: 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
504-463: The legislature of the Italian autonomous province of South Tyrol is known in German as a Landtag . Historically, states of the German Confederation also established Landtage . The Landtag of Liechtenstein is the nation's unicameral assembly. The German word Landtag is composed of the words Land (state, country or territory) and Tag (day). The German word Tagung (meeting) is derived from
532-529: The mid-19th century. The Polish-Lithuanian Sejm was sometimes called a diet. 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-federal matters. The States of Germany and Austria are governed by Landtage . In addition,
560-600: The parliamentary city council serves the function of the state parliament within the federal system - in the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen and in the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg it is called the Bürgerschaft (municipal assembly): In the German capital and city state of Berlin , the legislature since 1951 (then of West Berlin ) is called Abgeordnetenhaus ("House of Representatives"), adopting
588-693: The principle of proportional representation . The largest of the parliamentary groups (called Klubs in Austria) usually nominates the Landeshauptmann governor. The modern Landtage are the democratic successors of the estates assemblies in the corresponding crown lands of the Austrian Empire . Exceptions are the city of Vienna, which belonged to the Lower Austria Kronland until 1920, and Burgenland, ceded to Austria by
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#1732791577185616-684: The process of Gleichschaltung (coordination). On 31 March 1933, the Provisional Law on the Coordination of the States with the Reich was enacted, which dissolved all the sitting Landtage and reconstituted them on the basis of the recent Reichstag election results, which had given the Nazi Party and its coalition partner the DNVP a working majority. This was followed by the " Law on
644-483: The right to be seated in person (granted to many nobles (knightage) and prelates , as well as certain cities) or to be represented as elector in a college that is entitled to one or more seats. Therefore, the representatives primarily defended class interests, and decisions were based on a class-based electoral system. In some of the Imperial States that were known as Land , the name of such estates assembly
672-793: The tradition of the Prussian Landtag . The national bicameral Parliament comprises the directly elected Bundestag and the Bundesrat which represents the state governments in Federal matters which affect the Länder . According to the Constitution of Austria , the Landtage are the unicameral legislatures of the nine states of Austria ( Bundesländer ), dealing with all matters not explicitly allotted to federal level: As
700-593: Was Landtag , analogous to the Reichstag (Imperial Diet), which mainly comprised most of the Princes of the Holy Roman Empire plus Reichsgrafen , Imperial prelates and Free imperial cities . The precise composition obviously varied greatly, and could change over time, as the result of privileges granted or lost, entities split or merged, border changes et cetera . Prussian Landtage were held: See also Preußischer Landtag . As Austria and Prussia escaped
728-721: 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
756-479: Was created when the country was ceded from Sweden to Russia in 1809, was called lantdag in Swedish until 1906 when it was replaced by the unicameral Parliament of Finland . Parliament continued using the name lantdag in Swedish until 1919, when Finland adopted its first constitution following the declaration of independence in 1917. Since then, the official term in Swedish has been riksdag , equivalent of
784-691: Was responsible for electing the Chamber of States , the upper house of the national parliament. In 1952, the Länder were dissolved and replaced by Bezirke (districts). The Landtage were accordingly abolished and their functions transferred to the Bezirke governments. The Länder were eventually restored after the Peaceful Revolution , but their Landtage did not convene until after the reunification of Germany . The Diet of Finland , which
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