Carinthian Parliament

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Carinthian Parliament
Basic data
Seat: Country house in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee
Legislative period : five years
First session: 1920
MPs: 36
Current legislative period
Last choice: 4th March 2018
Next choice: 2023
Chair: State Parliament President Reinhart Rohr ( SPÖ )
    
Distribution of seats: State government (24)
  • SPÖ 18
  • ÖVP 6
    • Opposition (12)
  • FPÖ 9
  • TK 3
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    Website
    www.ktn.gv.at
    The country house is the seat of the Carinthian Parliament

    The Kärntner Landtag is the unicameral parliament of the Austrian state of Carinthia . Its 36 members are elected for a five-year legislative period using list voting.

    history

    The Carinthian state parliament has existed since at least the 16th century and was originally a representation of the state estates and the duke. He has been meeting in the country house since 1581. In the course of absolutism, he was pushed into a politically ineffective ceremonial function. In the course of the revolution of 1848 , democratic state elections were held for the first time on June 23 and 24, 1848. After the revolution, a two-pronged structure was established in which the state parliament represented the population, but there was also a representation of the state estates. Through the February patent , the diets of the Habsburg Empire were considerably upgraded in 1861 and regular free elections took place, initially in a state constitution with census voting rights.

    choice

    The deputies are elected according to the principles of equal, direct, secret and personal suffrage via lists. You are not bound by any assignment in the exercise of your mandate (free mandate).

    All Austrian citizens who have their main residence in Carinthia, are not excluded from the right to vote and who have reached the age of 16 on the day of the election are entitled to vote .

    Carinthia is divided into four constituencies, which include the following districts:

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    An electoral group needs a share of the vote of 5% in order to enter the state parliament. The length of a legislative period is five years. The 32nd legislative period began on April 12, 2018 . The count began with the April 6, 1861 elections.

    Until 2008, a basic mandate in one of the constituencies was a prerequisite for a campaigning group to be able to send MPs to the state parliament (so-called "basic mandate hurdle"). This resulted in an actual percentage hurdle between 9 and 11 percent for each of the constituencies. A circumstance that was regularly criticized by representatives of the Carinthian Slovenes and by small parties. In July 2008, with the votes of the SPÖ, ÖVP, Greens and FPÖ and against the votes of the BZÖ, the Carinthian state election order was changed so that those parties are also taken into account in the so-called residual vote mandate determination, which could not win a basic mandate, but a share of the votes of at least 5%.

    Proposals to grant the Slovene-speaking minority a fixed ethnic group mandate (a so-called Viril mandate ) have so far always been rejected by the established parties.

    task

    In addition to its legislative function at the state level, the state parliament's area of ​​competence also includes the election of the state governor , his two deputies and four state councilors, which together form the state government of Carinthia. It also elects the four members of the Federal Council to which the federal state of Carinthia is entitled .

    Bureau

    The Presidium of the Carinthian Landtag consists of the first, second and third Landtag presidents, who are elected from among the members of the Landtag according to proportional representation.

    After the state elections in Carinthia in 2018 , the Presidium consists of the following members according to the constituent meeting on April 12, 2018:

    See also

    literature

    • The Carinthian Parliament . Brochure, ed. from the Carinthian Landtag, approx. 2005

    Web links

    Individual evidence

    1. ^ History of politics in Carinthia. In: plattform-politische-bildung.at. Retrieved November 7, 2017 .
    2. ↑ Home> COUNTRY AND POLITICS> State Parliament> Historical. In: ktn.gv.at. Retrieved November 7, 2017 .
    3. ↑ Carinthian state election regulations - K-LTWO § 2 constituencies , accessed on July 15, 2016
    4. ↑ Law of July 3, 2008, with which the Carinthian state election order, the Carinthian plebiscite law, the Carinthian plebiscite law and the Carinthian referendum law are changed (PDF) Office of the Carinthian state government. Archived from the original on March 19, 2013. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 7, 2008. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.verwaltung.ktn.gv.at
    5. ↑ A big step for small parties . Little newspaper . July 4, 2008. Retrieved September 7, 2008.
    6. ↑ Home> COUNTRY AND POLITICS> State Parliament> Stenographic Protocols> 32nd legislative period 2018 -. Retrieved May 22, 2019 .