Landtag of Rhineland-Palatinate

Landtag of Rhineland-Palatinate
Coat of arms or logo
Type
Type	Landtag
Leadership
President	Joachim Mertes, SPD since 2006
Structure
Seats	101
Political groups	SPD (39)   CDU (35)   AfD (14)   FDP (7)   The Greens (6)
Elections
Last election	13 March 2016
Meeting place
Deutschhaus, Mainz
Website
landtag.rlp.de

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.

The German flag used in the Landtag is a historical one used during the Hambacher Fest.

Current Composition

After the elections of March 27, 2011, the composition of the Landtag is as follows:

Party	Seats
Social Democratic Party (SPD)	42
Christian Democratic Union (CDU)	41
Alliance '90/The Greens	18

Presidents of the Landtag

• 1947 – 1948 Jakob Diel, CDU
• 1948 – 1959 August Wolters, CDU
• 1959 – 1971 Otto van Volxem, CDU
• 1971 – 1974 Johannes Baptist Rösler, CDU
• 1974 – 1985 Albrecht Martin, CDU
• 1985 – 1991 Heinz Peter Volkert, CDU
• 1991 – 2006 Christoph Grimm, SPD
• since 2006 Joachim Mertes, SPD

See also

• List of Members of the Rhineland-Palatinate Landtag.