{"id":25081,"date":"2025-10-27T09:04:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T09:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=25081"},"modified":"2025-10-27T09:04:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T09:04:14","slug":"munich-voters-approve-plan-to-bid-for-summer-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=25081","title":{"rendered":"Munich voters approve plan to bid for Summer Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>A two-thirds majority in the German city of Munich voted in favour of a bid to host the Summer Olympics in 2036, 2040 or 2044 in a referendum on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Final results showed 66.4 percent of voters in the Bavarian capital voted in favour of the proposal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Munich clearly voted yes,&#8221; city mayor Dieter Reiter said in a statement on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Joerg Ammon, the President of the Bavarian State Sports Association (BLSV), celebrated the &#8220;dream result&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>With 42 percent of Munich&#8217;s 1.1 million eligible voters taking part, the turnout was the highest for a referendum in the city&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p>The previous participation record was 37.5 percent, recorded in 2001 for a vote on building the Allianz Arena, home to German football champions Bayern Munich and host of the 2012 and 2025 Champions League finals.<\/p>\n<p>Munich last hosted the Games in 1972. The Bavarian capital is one of four German regions developing a bid to host the Olympics and was the first to hold a vote to gauge support.<\/p>\n<p>Berlin, Hamburg and the Ruhr region are also developing bids, with referenda to be held in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The German candidate will be selected by the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) late in 2026 before being submitted to the International Olympic Committee (IOC).<\/p>\n<p>After Sunday&#8217;s vote, Bavarian state premier Markus Soeder said &#8220;we will now flood the DOSB with our arguments&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Voter willingness to host the Olympics has dwindled in many European cities in recent decades, due largely to concerns over cost.<br \/>\nAn estimated 6.7 million euros was spent on Sunday&#8217;s referendum alone, with 1.8 million of that going to an information campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The previous seven German bids to host the Summer or Winter Olympics games failed due to popular opposition.<\/p>\n<p>In 2013, Munich voters narrowly rejected a proposal to bid to host the 2022 Winter Games, with only 28.9 percent of eligible voters taking part.<\/p>\n<p>Munich and Berlin are the German cities to have hosted the Summer Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles will host the next edition in 2028 before Australian city Brisbane takes over in 2032.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A two-thirds majority in the German city of Munich voted in favour of a bid to host the Summer Olympics in 2036, 2040 or 2044 in a referendum on Sunday. Final results showed 66.4 percent of voters in the Bavarian capital voted in favour of the proposal. &#8220;Munich clearly voted yes,&#8221; city mayor Dieter Reiter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}