Provincial politics in the Netherlands

The States Deputed and the King's Commissioner exercise the executive power of the provincial government.

The King's Commissioner is a member of the States Deputed and often other portfolios, including safety and public order.

The national government appoints the King's Commissioner for a renewable six-year term.

When a vacancy occurs, the States Provincial express their preferences to the Minister of the Interior and Kingdom Relations.

All Commissioners are members of a national political party, but they are expected to exercise their office in a nonpartisan fashion.

All citizens in a province have the right to vote and almost all citizens can be elected, ministers and state secretaries in the national government are barred from standing in elections as well as King's Commissioners and civil servants employed by the province.

Like most legislatures, the members of Provincial States work in both political groups and policy area related committees.

Partially through the provincial fund in which the national government puts part of its tax income.

The most well known is the opcent, a small increase in the tax on cars which the provinces use for infrastructural investments.