The pro-car signs of parties were not related to the election in autumn but to a popular petition, “Berlin car-free”, that had until May to gather enough signatures for that question to be piggybacked to the election in autumn.
They failed to do so, so there won’t be referendum on this matter.
Yeah, they only got to around 130k signatures and needed about 170k to make the ballot.
This was after years of legal fights where the major parties backed everything, including poster campaigns against the signature gathering effort itself, to halt the citizens referendum. Eventually the courts had to rule the referendum constitutional.
It’s insane how hard the mainline parties fight making cities better for people. It’s all for the rich to be richer.
The pro-car signs of parties were not related to the election in autumn but to a popular petition, “Berlin car-free”, that had until May to gather enough signatures for that question to be piggybacked to the election in autumn.
They failed to do so, so there won’t be referendum on this matter.
Yeah, they only got to around 130k signatures and needed about 170k to make the ballot.
This was after years of legal fights where the major parties backed everything, including poster campaigns against the signature gathering effort itself, to halt the citizens referendum. Eventually the courts had to rule the referendum constitutional.
It’s insane how hard the mainline parties fight making cities better for people. It’s all for the rich to be richer.