Berlin turnout falls short

The referendum to save the historic Tempelhof airport failed on Sunday. Not enough people cast ballots in the city's first referendum to make it valid.

The preliminary results released by the Berlin state election authority showed the majority of the 530,231 ballots cast were in favor of keeping the airport open. But they accounted for only 21.7 percent of the 2.4 million eligible voters, short of the 25 percent needed for the vote to count.

Maybe it's because the mayor, Klaus Wowereit, has said he would ignore the outcome of it, maybe because the Communists had made a hate campaign against the airport in the former East-German sectors of Berlin where many voted against it. I don't know.

Richard Wagner from the „Achse des Guten“ wrote a very good Article (in German) about it. His result begins with:

„The opponents of the fun society have lost on Sunday, they, who meant it seriously with economy and achievement, with the future of our society, they have lost on Sunday symbolically. In reality they already have lost since a long time.“

Source: International Herold Tribune , New York Times