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Berlin Water-referendum

Von Jörn Boewe, junge Welt, 15. Feb. 2011

Die Berliner haben es geschafft: Mit dem ersten erfolgreichen Volksentscheid in der Geschichte der Stadt haben sie gegen den erbitterten Widerstand ihrer Landesregierung ein Gesetz beschlossen, das Signalwirkung weit über die Hauptstadt hinaus haben dürfte. Das Privatisieren öffentlichen Eigentums dürfte Politikern, egal welcher Couleur, künftig nicht mehr so leicht von der Hand gehen. Auch die Kauflaune der einschlägigen Investoren könnte durch die jüngste Berliner Erfahrung einen Dämpfer erhalten.

Ein Denkzettel ist das Abstimmungsergebnis aber insbesondere für die Parteien SPD und Linke.
Their representatives in the Senate had opposed the concerns of the citizens' initiative "Berlin Water Table" from the beginning. They had tried in 2007 on an administrative basis to declare the petition inadmissible. They had tried to prevent their ordinary party members in supporting the initiative. When they were halted by the country's Constitutional Court, they tried to take the initiative by the wind from their sails by it took up some of their demands and packaged in a new "freedom of information law." But only in forgiving form, namely without any sanctions for breaching the principle of transparency. And when the end of October 2010 with the transfer of 320 000 signatures to the National Election guide was clear that a referendum would be unavoidable, is wrestled Senate and his private "Water partners" even to the publication of the main elements of the contract through - something that the SPD and the Left held up nearly a decade as impossible had.

That this by no means all relevant documents, including decisions and related agreements, as required by the "water table" were disclosed, was on Friday: when suddenly instructions appeared on other contracts, denied the Senate, not their existence, but said it ado, if it were purely for " Group internal documents. "

It is amazing that just two left, or at least semi-left parties have not understood that it is precisely this authoritarian, technocratic and callous Abserviertwerden is the one not to ignore part of the citizens to the neck is hanging out - in Berlin, no less than in Stuttgart . The Berlin, at least those well 665 000 of them, the high kriegten on Sunday her ass and the draft of the initiative by citizens vote on the law did have the difference between the demanded that the "water table" and what they concede to the SPD and Left Party wanted, obviously understood very well. All of her smoke candles have the government parties end up not helping, but only helped to pollute the political climate in the country. The vote of Berlin was against a coup.