English Translation

257,) to the State and Volkische Ganzen, The local free municipality - and city-isohe self-government, the well-equipped district and gau self-administration and the sufficient decentralization of the administration and the legislative authority in the province - or country- 1) is and will always be a condition of the proper running of the dear democratic regime This applies to all states, small and large, as far as it corresponds to their geographical, economic and cultural composition. I have always taken this position and represent it today. Decentralization does not need to mean a weakening of the unity of state if it is carried out properly and rationally. On the contrary, it can sometimes also contribute to the strengthening of the unit of state. Every division of administration and legislative power on less-favoured instances has the strengthening of the power of central institutions in all the fiches in which the central power has retained the condition, to the immediate Fblge. The decentralization can also lead to the so-called sophistication of the political parties in the main problems of the state-wide, because the questions of secondary immediate material and power measures of the parties are transferred to lower instances, and the party struggles in the central administration and the central parliament can be more ideal and objective. In the case of a country decentralisation, which I think is necessary, Vie le thought that this would be too complicated and ineffective.