Popular initiative "No to tuition fees in Bavaria"

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The referendum “No to tuition fees in Bavaria” (long term “Take the fundamental right to education seriously - abolish tuition fees!” ) Was a legally valid referendum in Bavaria that was successful with the approval of the state parliament . The aim of the referendum was to change the Bavarian University Act to abolish tuition fees in Bavaria. During the registration period from January 17 to 30, 2013, 14.3 percent of those eligible to vote entered the signature lists. It had to be submitted to the Bavarian state parliament , which accepted the legislative proposal of the referendum on April 24, 2013.

The referendum was initiated by the Free Voters of Bavaria . It is supported by the state associations of the SPD and Greens , the two other opposition parties in the Bavarian state parliament , as well as the party Die Linke , the Pirate Party , the ÖDP , the DGB Bavaria , the Bavarian Youth Ring (BJR) , the State Asten Conference , and others Schoolchildren, teachers, parents, student and youth associations as well as the trade unions ver.di, IG Metall and GEW.

Procedure

Application and admission

The referendum was submitted to the Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior on June 12, 2012 . The examination by the Ministry of the Interior showed that with 27,048 signatures the necessary number of 25,000 signatories had been reached, but the referendum was not admissible because, according to Article 73 of the Bavarian Constitution, referendums on the state budget are excluded. In accordance with the state election law, the application was submitted to the Bavarian Constitutional Court for a decision .

Free voter deputy Michael Piazolo wrote the complaint free of charge .

On October 22nd, 2012, the Constitutional Court decided that the referendum was admissible, since the tuition fees were not to be added to the state budget but to the corporate budget of the universities, and therefore Art. 73 BV did not conflict with the referendum.

On November 12, 2012, the Ministry of the Interior finally announced the approval of the referendum. Thereupon the Bavarian pirates, who had already started an initiative for a referendum against the Bavarian tuition fees before the free voters, also supported this referendum. The website volksbegehren-studiengebuehren.de, which had previously advertised the pirate initiative, has been redesigned to become an alliance website.

registration

The registration period was set from January 17 to 30, 2013, and 9,438,854 citizens were entitled to vote. 1,352,618 people signed up for the official lists (14.3% of those entitled to vote). The required number of 943,866 signatures (10% of those entitled to vote) was thus exceeded by 408,732 signatures. The referendum is therefore legally valid and the Bavarian Prime Minister must submit it to the state parliament.

Treatment in the state parliament

At the end of February, the CSU and FDP agreed to allow the state parliament to vote on tuition fees. Before that, there had been a violent dispute in the coalition because the CSU had decided, contrary to the coalition agreement, to abolish tuition fees after reaching the quorum of the referendum.

On April 24, 2013, the Bavarian State Parliament approved the bill for the referendum with the votes of the CSU, SPD, Greens and the Free Voters. The FDP voted against. The tuition fees in Bavaria were thus abolished for the 2013/2014 winter semester.

The referendum “No to tuition fees in Bavaria” is the first legally valid referendum in the Free State of Bavaria that was accepted unchanged by the state parliament and therefore no referendum was required.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior: Press release no. 259/12 ( Memento of the original of July 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from July 24, 2012 (accessed November 19, 2012) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stmi.bayern.de
  2. ↑ Bavarian Constitutional Court: Decision of October 22, 2012, file number Vf. 57-IX-12 ( Memento of the original of March 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on November 19, 2012) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bayern.verfassungsgerichtshof.de
  3. ↑ Sebastian Krass: Alone against the "campus toll". sueddeutsche.de, accessed on January 23, 2013 .
  4. ↑ Bavarian State Office for Statistics and Data Processing : Final result (accessed on February 23, 2013)
  5. ↑ Bavarian State Office for Statistics and Data Processing: Press release 3 / VoB / StudGeb / 14 / B-VII from February 20, 2013 (accessed on February 23, 2013)
  6. ↑ CSU and FDP find compromise Bavaria is also abolishing tuition fees . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , February 23, 2013. Retrieved February 23, 2013.
  7. ^ Bavarian State Parliament (maximilianeum-online): State Parliament decides to abolish tuition fees Communication of April 24, 2013 (accessed on April 28, 2013).