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Berlin Senate will not appeal against results of the water referendum. Independent verification of the privatization contracts announced

By Jörn Boewe, young world, 16 Feb. 2011

The Senate of Berlin, according to Senator economy Harald Wolf (The Left) can not sue the Sunday adopted by referendum bill on disclosure of contracts for the partial privatization of the Berlin Water Works (BWB). The state government waive a so-called judicial review before the Berlin Constitutional Court in order "to avoid the impression" that they wanted to overturn by judicial means the majority in the vote, Wolf said on Tuesday after the Senate session.
An appeal would have been possible because the Senate is holding a part of the bill unconstitutional. This involves a clause stating that all unpublished documents are invalid within a year. Wolf explained that the Senate had adopted a "balancing decision." Although we consider the clause to be illegal, assume, however, that, because the publication has already taken anyway no longer imposed.

Senator Wolf, top candidate of the Left Party for the House of Representatives elections on 18 September, turned it against its own national association. Its chairman Klaus Lederer had called on Monday evening, the coalition would appeal against the outcome of the referendum. The Left demand "a legal review of the new law before the Constitutional Court of the State of Berlin." Senate and House of Representatives had before the referendum, with the partial unconstitutionality of the bill argued. "You owe it to the people of Berlin now guilty to conduct that review" to "certainty and legal security" to produce.

SPD Interior Minister Ehrhart Koerting had on Monday issued prior to the internal committee of the House of Representatives against the judicial review, "I tend to call not the Constitutional Court because I am the law superfluous think, because the publication of the agreements already made." The Governing Mayor Klaus Wowereit (SPD) had said nothing on the issue, but emphasized that the Senate had "hiding" anything.

In the past, the SPD and the Left had warned, could benefit in the event of success of the referendum, the private shareholders RWE and Veolia against the law in court. As it now turns out, but that is obviously not their intention. "We are not" definitely complain against Veolia spokeswoman Barbara Helton said on Tuesday at JW-demand. At RWE yesterday no one was available for comment. However, the group has, according to the Department for Economic already announced in February to make an offer for the retransmission of its shares to the BWB-state of Berlin.

As reported on Wolf wants the Senate "independent personalities, whose integrity is beyond doubt, "to cast their votes, yet accessible review documents to determine whether they should be published. The first two days before the referendum would become known documents now disclosed, although there exists no obligation according to the bill, said the senator.

The referendum had voted on Sunday about 98.2 percent of the more than 678 000 participants for the full disclosure of all supplementary documents, including water treaties and related agreements. According to the Senate all contracts have already been published on the Internet in November.