City Berlin will make public all contract terms and trade agreements, so far kept "confidential", to two private companies on the sale of 49% of drinking water distribution company, in 1999.
The referendum, which required it won, even if the measure: in Germany, because a referendum request is accepted, the need to win, and that represents at least 25% of those entitled to vote. If the no wins, or if such quorum is not reached, the request is rejected. He voted 27% of Berliners, with 98.2% Si (26.5% yes then on eligible).
The result is promising, because the conditions were not unlike those presumably we will have in Italy at the time of the public referendum on the water, only the Greens are in favor, with all the other parties invited to vote no or not voting (also Linke, who was then voted against it, but now is in the majority which administers the city), the debate deliberately ignored by the press and media, limited to small sidebars on almost all the newspapers, no manifest on the streets, as the committee have a total budget of 12,000 Euro, collected in a collection.
But common sense has prevailed. Since its privatization in the water today in Berlin and inflation of 35%, and the municipality collects only 35% of the profits, while the remaining 65% fat the two minority private, thanks to agreements "reserved" the referendum that seeks to expose.
The two private partners, Veolia and RWE, will likely appeal invoking the unconstitutionality of the request made by the referendum argue, in fact, that one can not require companies to disclose their "trade secrets".
"trade secrets". Such a defense is the best explanation of why not be left in private hands commons vital as water.
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