German politicians to Keep their people too stupid for referendums? Or referendums, as in other countries, would open the populists door? In addition, the guests discussed on Monday night, “hart Aber fair” with Frank Plasberg.
guests
- Markus Söder, the CSU
- Wolfgang Kubicki, FDP
- Claudine Nierth, Association spokesperson for “More democracy”
- Werner Patzelt, a Professor of politics at TU Dresden
- Bettina Gaus, Journalist “taz”
The issue
“people vote for all citizens are the better politicians?” Under the influence of Brexit-decision-making in the UK and the current refugee debate in Europe is a sensitive issue, which was heading from the outset that there is a clear conflict.
fronts
was The question of the Evening: Make people’s decisions for a better democracy, or you play heavy-handed mood-makers in the hands? No one could put the two sides better than Markus Söder and Wolfgang Kubicki. Söder, the CSU-sharp-maker, for it is incomprehensible, “why we are afraid to involve the citizens in important questions”. And Kubicki, like, as a lawyer of the citizens, and the Söder accused to be for those afraid to be responsible.
Already, the fronts were clarified: Bettina Gaus Söder called a demagogue, Claudine Nierth is confident that German courts over-the-top behaviour of populists would stop. And Werner Patzelt saw direct democracy as the only Chance, the “All-stop party coalition” in the Bundestag, so that “the political class can rule”.
fact of the Night
The ARD had commissioned a survey According to this, 71 percent of Germans want a nationwide referendum. Currently, Germany is next to Belgium, the only country in Western Europe that does not allow such votes. Not to mention, however, since the same Respondents, only 53 percent of people’s decisions in the refugee issue would be welcome./p>
comparison of the Night
to view the positive as well as negative side of people’s votes, one must look only in Switzerland. The neighboring country is to field investigators, the Primus among the Citizens. Four Times per year the Swiss Hiking to the polls to make policy. Pensions, minimum wage, labour law, the Swiss decide on their economy. But also about the people who live with you.
The strongest party became the SVP: a radical, right, wallet, hand, posters, advertising, the ventures in Germany, the NPD, and the like Plasberg, commented on only in museums. Noteworthy is the comment by the Swiss scientist Michael Hermann, the was asked as a guest: the people’s votes were, above all, in the sense of parties such as the CSU, AfD and the Left-hand – “these parties could not achieve a majority in the Parliament”. In short: politics on the margins of society. Or: by populism.
moderators-Moment
Söder found the course “totally wrong”. In the same way as the ARD-one-player, which is a signature action of the former Hessian Minister President Roland Koch in the election campaign, to xenophobic reactions would have led. The post was not nice, said Söder. “I don’t want to make it beautiful,” countered Plasberg.
quote of the Night
brought Patzelt on Werner. He described the possibility of referendums, as follows: “The most beautiful plebiscitary instruments are like the most beautiful instruments of torture.” To you, be nice to to put pressure on politicians, but they’d have to not be used for any topic.
What remains open to
except for CDU, all major parties dealing with the thought of how referendums are part of the nationwide democracy-could be process. What remains open, what are the topics that actually fit would be. Which brings us back to the question: How much policy to trust the politicians to their people? Has to bring the people of a right or the loss of parliamentary sovereignty? Or the debate about possible people decisions is a replacement debate for the dwindling confidence of the citizens, their elected representatives? Because this Problem is the actual, all the goods on Monday evening, exceptionally, agreed to.
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