Only with direct democracy as a complement to representative democracy the government power will really come from the people.
Ralf-Uwe Beck is a theologian, civil rights activist and federal executive spokesman of the association Mehr Demokratie (‘More Democracy’). He is also the Honorary Chairman for the Federal State of Thuringia of the Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland (Friends of the Earth Germany). His political involvement began in the subversive environmental movement in Eastern Germany.