With the unexpectedly high level of participation, it is the most successful referendum in the free state.

A clear result: 1 745 383 entitled to vote in Bavaria have registered with the national biodiversity covet. The preliminary result corresponds to a share of 18.4 percent. This paves the way for a referendum. For a success of the Initiative, which had campaigned under the Slogan “Save the bees” votes would only have been an interest of ten per cent would be necessary.

in fact, the participation in each County and in each urban district was about this brand. The lowest participation was the Quick report of the returning officer in the city court with 10.5 percent, the highest in the district of Starnberg with 27.7 percent. Results at the municipal level does not include the quick message.

the success of The people’s desire increases in the view of Bavaria’s Minister of the environment, Thorsten Glauber (Free voters), the pressure on more types of protection in cities and municipalities. The Initiative focuses on Changes in the Bavarian law on nature conservation: the habitats are more connected, riparian strips more protected, and the ecological cultivation is to be expanded.

Glauber announced a “referendum plus” and said in Munich on Thursday: “they are All asking, each in his own garden”. Here it is, for example, to reduce the Poison. The Minister warned that the project should not go to the expense of a single profession. Are meant to the farmers of the Bavarian farmers ‘ Association had vehemently opposed the request.

The Officer of the people’s desire, Agnes Becker (ÖDP), stressed that it would hold the Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) planned round table next week to the receivables from the draft law of the people’s desire. “We go in with all the good will in the conversation,” she said. “But the bar is our bill.” This had been a compromise.

Minister for the environment, Glauber acknowledged that in some fields, it is sharpened, and things would have to be a commitment. As an example, he cited the water edge. “This is a very clear Must. It can’t be that Bayern have to protect the last state of the waters edge, strip.”

The referendum, the diversity of species is the most successful in Bavaria. Prior to that, the highest turnout was recorded in the year 1967: 17.2 per cent of the electors enrolled at the time in a people a desire for education policy.