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Referendum could not save Berlin Tempelhof

Berlin Tempelhof airport will almost certainly close on October 31.

By Thierry Dubois • Writer

June 9, 2008

Berlin Tempelhof airport will almost certainly close on October 31. In a public referendum held on April 27, a majority of voters– some 60 percent–favored keeping the downtown airport open, but they represented only 21.3 percent of the city’s 2.425 million electors. A quorum of 25 percent was required for the vote to qualify as a recommendation to the Berlin Senate, which was to make the final decision.

“We needed another 80,000 supporters,” Bernd Gans, president of the German Business Aviation Association (GBAA), told AIN. GBAA is now appealing to the Senate’s “democratic understanding,” arguing that the local government was elected by even fewer people than the number of pro-Tempelhof voters.

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