Questão jurídica principal
Whether the Regierungsrat's commencement decision of 30 June 2004 violated voting rights
Decisão extraída
No. Bringing the constitutional amendments into force could not itself violate political rights; the legality of the implementing election law had to be examined separately.
Fundamentação extraída
The in-force decision merely enabled the legislature to enact implementing law. Any voting-rights problem arose, if at all, from the election law and not from the commencement order.