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clearance for secret treaties

decide Berlin People Act to disclose all agreements relating to the partial privatization of their water operations. SPD and the Left seem deranged

By Jörn Boewe, young world, 15 Feb. 2011

Almost twelve years after the partial privatization of the Berlin Water Works by the CDU-SPD Senate, Eberhard Diepgen, the citizens of the capital's legal requirement to disclose the secret treaties signed in 1999 have won. On Monday, the country director vote Petra Michaelis-Merzbacher the preliminary official results with. Of the approximately 2.47 million eligible voters voted for the bill of 665 713 citizens' initiative "Berlin water table. 25 percent would have had to vote yes - then the evening was 27 percent.

In the now binding law requires people adopted the Senate, "all existing and future agreements, decisions and ancillary agreements in connection with the partial privatization of the Berlin Water Works (...)" disclosed with the exception of personal data. Everything that is not published within a year, is therefore invalid. The law becomes effective on the day after the announcement im Berliner Gesetz- und Verordnungsblatt in Kraft.

1999 hatten die Konzerne RWE und Veolia 49,9 Prozent der Anteile an den Berliner Wasserbetrieben erworben. Das Land gab den privaten Teilhabern vertraglich eine Renditegarantie, die vom Landesverfassungsgericht für unwirksam erklärt, faktisch aber erfüllt wurde. Seit der Privatisierung stieg der Wasserpreis in Berlin um rund 35 Prozent. Auch die seit 2002 regierende SPD-Linke-Koalition hatte in der Vergangenheit Anträge auf Akteneinsicht in die Privatisierungsverträge mit Verweis auf Betriebs- und Geschäftsgeheimnisse der privaten Investoren, aber auch des Landes Berlin selbst abgelehnt.

SPD und Linke hatten die Bürger aufgerufen, der Abstimmung fernzubleiben. Ihrer View, were already in early November after it became clear that it would come to a referendum, revealed all agreements agreed upon by the state and the private shareholders. On Friday, however, were references to other, previously unpublished documents surfaced. The Senate Department of Finance said that it constitutes "while only" inter-company documents.

Berlin's Governing Mayor Klaus Wowereit (SPD) said on Monday that he was "too happy, if further allegations are in the room, it was not yet published anything, to do their one Independent, who all this time reliving." The documents referred to on Friday should be made public, "if it is the law of peace" and "if it is legally possible," so Wowereit.

Senator Harald Wolf (The Left), who announced on Thursday yet, the vote was unnecessary, stressed on Monday in the RBB, which is in the referendum required disclosure of all contracts "only part" of the citizens' will. It go "the people and the Senate" more - such that we must change the state, "that private investors in the water - a public good - make" a fortune.

the 1.7 percent who voted in the negative, was also the deputy chairman of the Left Party Halina Wawzyniak. As she announced in her blog, she is even against secret treaties, but was bothered by the fact that the referendum so only "in connection with the privatization of water and" not a requirement for all future contracts in other areas "had. "Too inconsistent," so Wawzyniak that she could "not say yes.