Direct democracy in Berlin

These enable German citizen residents to directly influence policy, in addition to indirect democracy via elected officials in the House of Representatives.

Firstly, it asked for a reduction of the voting age from 18 to 16 for Berlin House of Representatives elections and referendums.

The initiative would give full active and passive voting rights for elections to municipal councils, state legislatures (including the Berlin House of Representatives), to the Bundestag and to the European Parliament.

In 2016, a citizens' decision to block a costly refurbishment of the Landwehr Canal's Fraenkelufer failed to achieve quoracy.

[27] In 2009, a citizens' decision passed in the borough of Tempelhof-Schöneberg to award monument protection to the former Tempelhof Airport, which had been shut in 2008.