AfD: program for the 2023 Bavaria state election

The AfD wants to relieve businesses and employees of rules from Brussels, Berlin and Munich. Among other things, small and medium-sized firms would be exempt from the EU's General Data Protection Regulation, the Supply Chain Act would be scrapped, and quotas for women and migrants abolished.

The AfD wants less paperwork for companies. Small firms should no longer have to follow the EU data protection rules. The Supply Chain Act should go. The AfD also wants to end quotas for women and migrants. People should be able to file every application online.

The AfD wants to strengthen Bavaria as a location for industry and high tech. To that end, industry clusters with special rules are to be created, starting a company should take one day, and production sites are to be brought back to Bavaria.

The AfD wants more industry and modern technology in Bavaria. There should be special zones with their own rules for tech companies. People should be able to start a company in one day. Factories should come back to Bavaria from abroad.

The AfD wants to secure Bavaria's auto and supplier industry and its jobs, including those tied to the combustion engine. In its view, the market rather than politics should decide which drive technologies prevail.

Many people in Bavaria work in the car industry. The AfD wants to keep these jobs. It also wants to keep allowing gasoline and diesel cars. People should choose for themselves which car they drive.

The AfD wants to preserve and expand the defense industry in Bavaria so that the Bundeswehr can be equipped with modern gear. It opposes selling German defense companies to foreign buyers.

The AfD wants to strengthen defense companies in Bavaria. These companies build weapons and gear for the military. This should give the German army modern equipment. German defense companies should not be sold to buyers abroad.

The AfD wants to ease the burden on restaurants and hotels, which it sees as part of Bavaria's cultural heritage and an important part of the small and mid-sized business sector. VAT on food and drinks served in restaurants would stay permanently reduced, and red tape such as the mandatory receipt rule would be cut.

The AfD wants to help restaurants and hotels. The sales tax on food and drinks in restaurants should stay low for good. There should be fewer rules. For example, the receipt rule should go. That rule says a business must always print a receipt.

The AfD wants to strengthen technical and scientific subjects, link research and industry more closely, and keep young technology companies in Bavaria with venture capital. The platform argues that a country with few raw materials can only secure its prosperity through technological excellence.

The AfD wants more technology and research in Bavaria. Schools should give more weight to math, computer science and science. Young tech companies should get money more easily. That way these companies should stay in Bavaria.

The AfD wants to give taxpayers major relief by scrapping several taxes entirely, including the property tax, inheritance and gift tax, and the solidarity surcharge. The CO2 levy and CO2 emissions trading are also to go. In the program's view, today's tax burden stifles the will to work.

The AfD wants to cut taxes a lot. The tax on land and buildings should go. The tax on inheritances should go too. The charge on CO2 should end. The AfD says taxes are too high today.

The AfD wants a debt-free Bavarian budget, fewer subsidies and penalties for wasting tax money. Payments to the EU are to fall as far as possible, and the EU-wide tendering requirement is to go. It rejects a climate dividend (Klimageld), climate protection contracts and subsidies under the Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG).

The AfD wants Bavaria to take on no new debt. The state should hand out less money in subsidies. People who waste tax money should be punished. Bavaria should give less money to the EU. The AfD rejects money for climate programs.

The AfD wants to preserve cash without restrictions and anchor this in the Bavarian constitution. It cites the expected digitalization of payment methods and regards cash as an expression of freedom.

The AfD wants cash to stay. Everyone should be able to pay with cash without limits. This should be written in Bavaria's constitution. The AfD says cash means freedom.

The AfD wants to make housing cheaper by lowering construction costs, simplifying Bavarian building law and removing taxes on real estate. The property tax (Grundsteuer) is to be abolished entirely, and the real estate transfer tax is to be dropped for owner-occupied homes. The party rejects rent caps and rent brakes and instead relies on more housing construction and support for home ownership.

The AfD wants housing to cost less. Building should become easier and cheaper. The property tax should end. People who buy a home to live in should pay no tax on the purchase. The party rejects limits on rents.

The AfD wants German citizens not to be disadvantaged in access to housing. State intervention in the housing market to accommodate asylum seekers is to stop. In the party's view, immigration makes housing scarce and drives up prices.

The AfD wants to put Germans first for housing. The state should stop finding homes for asylum seekers. German students should get dorm places first. The party says immigration makes homes scarce and costly.

The AfD presents the family of father, mother and children as the ideal and rejects adoption rights for same-sex couples. It justifies this with a child's right to a father and a mother. It also opposes extending the so-called minor custody right and adding children's rights to the Basic Law.

The AfD wants to strengthen the family of father, mother and children. Two men or two women should not be allowed to adopt children. The AfD says children have a right to a father and a mother. It rejects separate children's rights in the constitution.

The AfD wants to encourage young people in Bavaria to start families and to ease their financial burden, rather than responding to demographic change with immigration. It stresses the protection of unborn life and rejects classifying abortion as a human right.

The AfD wants more young people in Bavaria to have children. Families should have to pay less. The AfD does not see immigration as the right answer to low birth numbers. Abortion should not become a human right. Pregnant women in need should get help.

The AfD wants parents to be able to choose between caring for their children themselves and using daycare or childminders without financial pressure. To that end, the Bavarian Familiengeld (family allowance) would be raised and working parents would pay less tax. The platform justifies this with the importance of the bond with parents in the first years of life.

Parents should choose freely: care for the child at home or use daycare. Money should not stand in the way. The AfD wants to raise the Bavarian family allowance. Working parents should pay less tax.

The AfD wants fathers to remain fully involved in raising their children after a separation. Separation maintenance should rely more on personal responsibility, and serious misconduct within a marriage should affect the consequences of divorce. Single parents should receive support, without this family model being promoted as an ideal.

The AfD says children need both parents after a breakup. Fathers should be fully involved in raising them. Very bad behavior in a marriage should matter in a divorce. Single parents should get help.

The AfD wants to keep Bavaria's school system of Mittelschule, Realschule, Gymnasium and Förderschule (special-needs school) and apply the performance principle in all of them. Vocational training should gain more esteem, the Mittelschule should be strengthened and fewer children should move on to Gymnasium. It rejects interference by the federal government and the EU in education policy.

The AfD wants to keep the four types of school in Bavaria. Performance should count everywhere. The Mittelschule should prepare students better for job training. Fewer children should go to Gymnasium. Bavaria should decide on its own schools.

The AfD wants to create ways to obtain an education outside the conventional school system. Other forms of schooling and learning should be permitted if learning progress is demonstrated. The platform points to experiences from the COVID-19 period.

Children should also be allowed to learn outside regular school. They must show that they are learning enough. The AfD gives the experience of the COVID-19 period as the reason.

The AfD wants Bavaria's universities to focus support on STEM subjects and traditional degree programs and considers gender studies chairs unnecessary. It rejects quotas based on sex, gender identity or migration background. In the program's view, academic freedom is threatened by ideological influence.

The AfD wants more support for subjects like math, technology and science. It says professorships for gender studies are not needed. It is against quotas at universities. A quota is a fixed share of jobs for one group. Nobody should be treated worse for not using gender-inclusive language.

The AfD wants to preserve German as the language of scholarship at Bavarian universities and rejects degree programs taught only in English. At the same time, it acknowledges English as the global language of science and wants to promote foreign language skills.

The AfD wants universities to keep teaching and doing research in German. It is against degree programs only in English. It still sees English as important. Students should be able to learn foreign languages well.

The AfD wants to reduce universities' dependence on third-party funders and demands openness about projects paid for with externally raised money. The independence of research is to be protected.

Universities also get money from outside, for example from companies. This is called third-party funding. The AfD wants research to depend less on it. Citizens should be able to see what the money is for.

The AfD wants to restore the Diplom and Magister degrees and phase out bachelor's and master's programs. It justifies this with the strong reputation it says the German university system had before the Bologna reform.

The AfD wants the old degrees Diplom and Magister back. Bachelor's and master's degrees should end step by step. The state exam should stay. The AfD says the old system had a good name around the world.

The AfD wants basic medical care to remain organized by municipalities and to be guaranteed everywhere in Bavaria. Hospital funding should follow need, and the platform rejects profit-seeking in this area. Smaller hospital sites in particular are to receive investment.

The AfD wants to keep hospitals all over Bavaria. There should be emergency care and maternity wards everywhere. Hospitals should get as much money as they need. Nobody should make a profit from basic care.

The AfD wants to replace the system of flat per-case payments (Fallpauschalen) with payment for each individual service. In the platform's view, the flat fees distort care and cause long waiting times. It also calls for more physician practice slots and a different route into medical school.

Today hospitals get a fixed amount for each case. The AfD wants to change that. Each single service should be paid for. There should also be more doctors' offices. Young people without top grades should be able to study medicine.

The AfD demands a legal and scientific review of the Bavarian state government's COVID measures, which it considers disproportionate and partly unconstitutional. Vaccinations with mRNA products are to be suspended. Excess mortality and vaccine injuries are to be investigated openly.

The AfD thinks the COVID rules in Bavaria were wrong. Courts and researchers should examine these rules. The AfD wants to stop mRNA vaccinations. There should be offices that help people with vaccine injuries.

The AfD rejects any vaccine mandate and wants to repeal the measles vaccination requirement, which it says was introduced without sufficient medical evidence. Parents should decide for themselves whether to vaccinate their children. People who refuse a vaccination should not be put at a disadvantage.

The AfD does not want any duty to get vaccinated. The measles vaccine duty should end. Parents should decide for their own child. Nobody should be treated worse for refusing a vaccine.

The AfD supports digitalization in administration and service but rejects central storage of sensitive health data because it fears misuse. Bavaria should not back the European Health Data Space (EHDS). The platform also rejects a central vaccination registry.

The AfD wants to protect health data. Nobody should collect this data in one central place. That applies to Germany and to the EU. The AfD also does not want a central vaccination registry.

The AfD considers the medical use of cannabis sensible and worth promoting but is critical of an uncontrolled release. Its stated reason is that the content of THC and other substances cannot be regulated. It also calls for a scientific reassessment of the plant.

The AfD wants to allow and support cannabis as medicine. It is critical of making cannabis freely available to everyone. Researchers should assess the plant and its dangers again. The EU should stay out of this question.

The AfD wants to relieve family caregivers with paid care leave that resembles parental leave and protects their job. The financial compensation should approach the pay of professional care staff. The platform also calls for a major care reform and a more attractive nursing profession.

Many people care for relatives at home. The AfD wants to give them care leave. During this time they get money and keep their job. The care profession should also get better.

The AfD wants the limits for cell phone radiation reviewed and pushed lower. Rules on toxic residues in the environment are also to become stricter. The platform justifies this with protecting health from influences that individuals cannot control.

The AfD wants stricter limits for cell phone radiation. It also wants stricter rules for toxic substances in the environment. The party says that people's health matters most. Independent researchers should study the risks.

The AfD wants the Bavarian police to carry out regular border checks together with the Federal Police. The aim is to prevent unauthorized entry.

The AfD wants more checks at the border. The Bavarian police should check there regularly. They should work together with the Federal Police. The goal is that fewer people enter without permission.

The AfD wants to restrict immigration to highly qualified workers, cap it numerically and usually make it temporary. Citizenship would again follow the principle of descent that applied until 1999. Naturalization should primarily serve German interests.

The AfD wants to let in only a small number of very well-trained workers. Most of them should stay only for a set time. Children should again get a German passport mainly through their parents. That was the rule until 1999.

The AfD wants to deport all foreigners who are required to leave within six months at most and aims for a 100 percent deportation rate in Bavaria. Church asylum should end immediately because, in the party's view, it blocks lawful deportations.

Some foreigners are required to leave Germany. The AfD wants to deport all of them within six months. Churches should no longer be allowed to shelter these people. The AfD says the same law must apply to everyone.

The AfD supports reforming asylum law and the related international treaties so that German interests carry more weight. Aid should be provided mainly in the crisis regions rather than in Germany. Benefits should be granted in kind wherever possible.

The AfD wants to change asylum law. People in need should get help mainly in their home region. Asylum seekers should get goods rather than money. Cash should be no higher than the average in Europe.

The AfD wants to keep the public muezzin call out of Bavaria and stop paying taxpayer money to Islamic organizations. Foreign funding for mosques is to be blocked. The party rejects minarets, which it sees as a show of power by political Islam.

The AfD does not want the muezzin call in Bavaria. The muezzin calls Muslims to prayer out loud. Islamic groups should get no money from the state. Mosques should get no money from abroad either. The AfD is against minarets.

The AfD wants to keep the headscarf ban in the civil service, daycare centers and schools and extend it to kindergarten children and schoolgirls. The burqa is to be banned in public. The platform justifies this as fighting the oppression of women in Islam.

The AfD wants to keep the headscarf ban for public employees. The ban should also apply to children in daycare and school. The burqa should be banned in public. A burqa is a garment that covers the whole body. The AfD says women and men have equal rights.

The AfD wants to punish puberty blockers and gender reassignment surgery for adolescents as serious bodily harm and allow such procedures only from adulthood. It also opposes what it regards as ideological sex education in schools and daycare centers.

The AfD wants to ban puberty blockers for young people. These are drugs that stop puberty. Surgery to change a young person's sex should also be a crime. Only adults should be allowed to do this. The AfD also rejects certain sex education in schools and daycare.

The AfD affirms equal rights for men and women under the Basic Law but rejects quotas and state-mandated equalization. It considers such rules unfair, hostile to merit and unconstitutional. Instead, pay in all occupations should be based on performance.

The AfD says men and women have the same rights. But it wants no quotas. A quota sets how many jobs must go to women. The party thinks this is unfair. Pay should depend on performance.

The AfD wants to scrap the CO2 levy, lower energy and electricity taxes and permanently reduce the sales tax on energy to 7 percent. Prices for electricity, heat and fuel should follow the world market. The platform cites the burden on households and the competitiveness of industry.

The AfD wants to make energy cheaper. The CO2 levy should go. That is an extra charge on gasoline, oil and gas. Taxes on electricity and energy should go down. The sales tax on energy should be only 7 percent.

The AfD rejects a ban on wood stoves and wants to support all decentralized energy supply by households and businesses. Energy generated for one's own use should be free of levies. The party favors energy from renewable raw materials, but without state subsidies.

The AfD does not want to ban wood stoves. Everyone should choose how to get energy. People who make power or heat for themselves should pay no charges on it. The AfD likes energy from wood and plants. But the state should not pay for it.

The AfD wants to restart existing nuclear power plants in Bavaria and have new ones built. This is meant to give industry and citizens low-priced electricity. Bavaria should also take part in research on new nuclear technology.

The AfD wants to switch nuclear plants in Bavaria back on. It also wants new nuclear plants. This should make power cheaper. Bavaria should do research on new nuclear technology. It should be possible to take nuclear waste back out later.

The AfD wants to end subsidies for new installations under the Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG) and slow the expansion of wind and solar power in Bavaria. The 10H distance rule for wind turbines is to stay. In the party's view, the climate cannot be influenced from Germany or Bavaria.

The AfD wants to stop subsidies for new wind and solar plants. Old contracts should stay valid. Wind turbines should stand far from homes. There should be no such plants in forests. The AfD does not think Germany can change the climate.

The AfD wants to invest in flood protection, sewer networks and drinking water reserves rather than build more wind turbines. In the program's view, adapting to natural climate change costs less than a climate policy the party considers useless and expensive.

The AfD wants to protect Bavaria better against floods. It also wants to find new supplies of drinking water. This matters more to the party than new wind turbines. The AfD thinks current climate policy is costly and useless.

The AfD wants cheap electricity and a secure supply to rank above all CO2 reduction targets. It opposes shutting down baseload power plants in favor of wind and solar, arguing that this raises the risk of large blackouts.

The AfD wants cheap and reliable electricity. This matters more to it than cutting CO2. It does not want to shut down large power plants. It says wind and sun do not deliver power reliably.

The AfD wants to use deep geothermal energy in southern Bavaria primarily for local and district heating. Electricity from geothermal heat should be generated only where heat is also needed, because the party considers this form of power generation too inefficient.

Deep in the ground it is hot. This heat can warm homes. The AfD wants to support that, also in rural areas. It wants to allow power from this heat only where the heat is used too.

The AfD opposes clearing forest to build wind turbines and calls wind energy as a whole a wrong path. It cites the protection of birds of prey, bats and insects as well as the appearance of the landscape.

The AfD is against wind turbines in forests. Nobody should cut down trees for wind turbines. The AfD says wind turbines kill birds, bats and insects. It also says they make the landscape ugly.

The AfD rejects any obligation to insulate or carry out energy retrofits as well as bans on gas and oil heating. Energy requirements for new buildings are to be cut to a minimum. In the party's view, such obligations would push many owners into debt and raise rents.

The AfD wants no duty to insulate homes. It also wants no ban on gas and oil heating. The party says many home owners would otherwise go into debt. Rents would also go up.

The AfD wants animals bound for slaughter to be taken to the nearest suitable slaughterhouse and wants to support regional slaughterhouses for that purpose. Abuses in animal transport are to be stopped, including across borders. The party rejects ritual slaughter without stunning as a matter of principle.

The AfD wants shorter trips for animals going to slaughter. The animals should go to the nearest suitable slaughterhouse. Local slaughterhouses should get public support. The AfD is against ritual slaughter. That means killing animals without stunning them, following religious rules.

The AfD calls for effective wolf management and wants wolves to be removed, meaning killed or captured, quickly and with little red tape. People who suffer damage should be compensated without bureaucracy. Newly arrived species are to be pushed back, and the party opposes bringing bears back.

The AfD wants to limit the number of wolves. Authorities should allow shooting wolves quickly. People harmed by wolves should get money easily. New animal species should become fewer again. Bears should not live in Bavaria again.

The AfD wants to transfer agricultural policy from the EU back to the member states; within Germany, the federal states should be in charge. It considers funding via the EU cumbersome, expensive and contrary to the principle of subsidiarity.

Today the EU decides a lot about farming. The AfD wants to change that. Each country should decide for itself. In Germany, the federal states should be in charge.

The AfD commits to small-scale farming and wants to permanently raise the level of self-sufficiency in staple foods. Organic and conventional farming should compete without a prescribed target quota. It wants to cut back regulations for farmers and consumers.

The AfD wants to support small farms. Bavaria should produce more of its own food. There should be no fixed quota for organic farming. Farmers should have fewer rules.

The AfD wants to move transit freight off the roads and onto rail and waterways as far as possible, in order to relieve Bavaria's roads. At the same time, the railways are to be repaired and expanded, with local residents involved in the planning.

Many trucks only drive through Bavaria. The AfD wants trains and ships to carry these goods. This should make the roads less busy. Buses and trains should also run better. People living nearby should have a say in the planning.

The AfD wants to expand Bavaria's road network, close gaps in the highway system and improve connections in rural areas. It rejects policies that favor or disadvantage particular modes of transport and wants driving to remain affordable.

The AfD wants more and better roads in Bavaria. Missing parts of highways should be finished. Roads in the countryside should get better. Driving a car should stay affordable. Everyone should be free to choose how they travel.

The AfD wants to secure the future of Bavaria's airports and airfields and protect them from bans it attributes to the Greens. Munich and Nuremberg airports are to get long-distance rail connections.

The AfD wants to keep the airports in Bavaria. It does not want bans on air travel. Munich and Nuremberg airports should get stations for long-distance trains. People should be able to travel quickly between them.

The AfD rejects a state that digitally monitors and controls its citizens. It opposes abolishing cash, introducing a "digital identity," and a personal CO2 budget.

The AfD does not want a state that watches people digitally. Cash should stay. The AfD is against a digital identity. It is also against a personal CO2 budget. That would be a fixed amount of CO2 for each person.

The AfD wants to finish the rollout of wired broadband across Bavaria, preferably with fiber, and to secure mobile coverage in rural areas. Equipment should come only from state-certified suppliers; companies controlled by China should not take part.

The AfD wants fast internet everywhere in Bavaria. Fiber cables should be used most of all. Cell phone service should also be good in the countryside. The equipment should come only from approved companies. Companies under the control of China's ruling party should not take part.

The AfD wants to abolish the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (DSGVO in German) and replace it with a shorter privacy law that it says would cause less red tape. At the same time, end-to-end encryption should become the legal standard, and the party rejects a central personal identifier in government registers.

The AfD wants to get rid of the GDPR. That is an EU rule that protects personal data. A new, shorter law should replace it. Messages should always be encrypted. The state should not use one ID number for each person across all offices.

The AfD wants Bavaria to implement the Onlinezugangsgesetz (Online Access Act) quickly and thereby further digitize government procedures. Contacting the administration in person should remain easy.

The AfD wants government offices in Bavaria to go digital faster. People should be able to do more online. But they should still be able to visit an office in person easily. Cities and towns should work together on the technology.

The AfD wants to limit the Verfassungsschutz (domestic intelligence service) to preventing acts that endanger the state. It should neither assess citizens' political convictions nor interfere in how parties form their positions. The platform accuses the agencies of being used in part against the opposition, and against the AfD in particular.

The Verfassungsschutz is Germany's intelligence service for inside the country. The AfD wants to limit its tasks. It should only stop dangerous acts against the state. It should not judge what citizens think. It should not interfere with parties either.

The AfD wants authorities to act more strongly against left-wing extremism, Islamism and what it calls "climate extremism." It considers the "fight against the right" oversized and one-sided. Nonviolent criticism of the government, it says, must not be labeled extremist.

The AfD says it rejects every kind of extremism. The state should do more against left-wing violence and Islamists. It should also act against radical climate groups. The AfD thinks the state looks too much only at the right. Peaceful criticism of the government should stay allowed.

The AfD rejects stricter gun laws and weapons-ban zones. Its reasoning is that gun violence comes from illegal, unregistered weapons and not from hunters, collectors or sport shooters.

The AfD does not want stricter gun laws. It says hunters and sport shooters are not the problem. The problem is illegal guns that are not registered. The AfD also does not want zones where weapons are banned.

The AfD wants more visible police, less paperwork on the job, and better equipment and training for officers. At the same time, the powers of security agencies should stay limited so that individual freedoms are preserved.

The AfD wants more police officers on the street. The police should have less paperwork. Officers should get better gear and more training. The freedom of citizens should stay protected.

The AfD wants to reverse the tightening of Bavaria's Polizeiaufgabengesetz (Police Powers Act). In its view, the reforms greatly expanded state powers without increasing security.

Bavaria has a law about what the police may do. For some years this law has given the police more powers. The AfD wants to remove these new powers again. It says citizens have less freedom because of them, but not more safety.

The AfD opposes blanket video surveillance and wants cameras allowed only at crime hot spots. Instead, more police officers on the streets are meant to prevent crime. Speed checks would also be restricted to particularly dangerous locations.

The AfD does not want cameras everywhere. Cameras should only be in places with a lot of crime. More police officers should be out on the streets instead. Speed cameras should only stand in dangerous places, such as near schools.

The AfD wants sovereign powers that were handed to bodies such as the EU, the UN, or the WHO returned to parliaments. Former members of the state government and the state parliament would have to wait five years before working for lobbying organizations.

The AfD wants to take powers back from the EU, the UN and the WHO. Parliaments should decide again. Former ministers and lawmakers should wait five years. Only then may they work for lobby groups. Lobby groups try to influence politics.

The AfD wants to lower the hurdles for referendums in Bavaria, citing Switzerland as its model. Citizens should also be able to vote government bodies out of office in cases of serious failure. The platform rejects citizens' assemblies as a substitute for direct participation.

The AfD wants more referendums. A referendum is a vote by the people on one question. The rules for this should become easier. People should also be able to vote a government out if it fails badly. There should be advice centers for referendums.

The AfD wants to cut the Bavarian state parliament from its current 205 members to no more than 180, saying it is too large and too costly. The state premier and lawmakers would be limited to two consecutive terms. The legislative term would go back to four years instead of five.

The AfD wants a smaller state parliament. It should have at most 180 members. Today it has 205. The state premier and the lawmakers should serve only two terms in a row. Elections should take place every four years instead of every five.

The AfD wants to end Bavaria's annual state payments to the major churches through a final settlement, calling them outdated. Services the churches provide to society would be billed individually. The state would also stop collecting the church tax.

Bavaria pays money to the big churches every year. The AfD wants to end these payments. When churches do something for society, the state should pay for each service separately. The state should no longer collect the church tax.

The AfD wants to change Bavarian municipal law so that small opposition parties are guaranteed representation in municipal and county councils. Rules on how committee seats are allocated and on the minimum size of a council group would be set by statute rather than by each council's own rules of procedure.

The AfD wants to protect small parties in local councils. Every party should have a seat on the committees. A committee is a small working group of the council. The rules for this should be written into law.

The AfD wants the judiciary to administer itself instead of depending on the government. In the platform's view, the executive currently controls funding, resources and the hiring of judges and prosecutors, which it says undermines the independence of the courts.

The AfD wants the courts and prosecutors to run themselves. Today the government decides on their money and staff. The AfD says this makes the courts dependent on politicians.

The AfD wants to give Bavaria's justice system more staff and reform it. Public prosecutors would no longer be bound by instructions from the government, which the party says would prevent political misuse. The platform also calls for stable and clear legislation.

The AfD wants more staff for the courts in Bavaria. Prosecutors should no longer take orders from the government. The AfD says this stops politicians from misusing them. Laws should be clear and should not change all the time.

The AfD wants essential public services in Bavaria to remain publicly owned. This is to be written into the constitution. It applies above all to municipal water supply.

Some services are essential, like water. The AfD wants the state and towns to own these services. This should be written in the constitution. Drinking water should get special protection.

The AfD wants the Bavarian state government to clearly condemn arms deliveries to Ukraine. In the platform's view, Germany should act as a mediator rather than take sides. It calls on Russia and Ukraine to begin peace talks immediately.

The AfD is against weapons for Ukraine. The government of Bavaria should clearly reject these deliveries. Germany should help both sides talk. Russia and Ukraine should start peace talks right away.

The AfD wants the state government to do more for the Bundeswehr (German armed forces) and to keep and expand bases in Bavaria. A substantial share of the planned additional posts should be located in the state.

The AfD wants to keep the army bases in Bavaria and make them bigger. The Bavarian government should do more for this. The army is supposed to get new jobs. Many of them should come to Bavaria.

The AfD wants to protect Bavaria's cultural landscape from wind turbines, solar parks and what it calls faceless architecture. Townscapes and monuments are to be preserved and a regional building culture promoted. It rejects loosening monument protection for the sake of climate action.

The AfD wants to keep the look of Bavaria. Wind turbines and solar parks should not change the landscape. Old buildings should get better protection. Rules for old buildings should not be relaxed because of the climate.

The AfD wants to write German into the Bavarian constitution as the sole state and official language. Gender-inclusive language in public authorities and public broadcasters is to be stopped. The party sees the German language and Bavaria's dialects as the basis of cultural identity.

The AfD wants to put German into the Bavarian constitution. German should be the only language for public offices. Public offices should not use gender-inclusive language. This should also apply to public broadcasters.

The AfD wants to significantly reduce requirements for club festivals and keep bureaucracy for clubs to a minimum. Bavarian customs are to be promoted more strongly. In the party's view, club life suffers from too many rules.

Clubs should have to follow fewer rules. Club festivals should be easier to hold. The AfD wants more support for Bavarian customs. Card tournaments run by volunteers should stay legal.

The AfD wants to preserve the history and culture of Germans from the former eastern territories for future generations. Among other things, it calls for a statistical record of this group in Bavaria, adding the topic to the school curriculum, and a welcome program for Spätaussiedler (ethnic German resettlers).

Many Germans once had to leave their homes in the east. The AfD wants to preserve their history and culture. Students should learn this history in school. Ethnic German resettlers should get a welcome program.

The AfD wants Bavaria to leave the Interstate Media Treaty and have Bayerischer Rundfunk provide only a basic service. This is meant to cut the license fee sharply. A council elected directly by citizens would oversee the broadcaster.

The AfD wants to change public broadcasting a lot. Bavaria should leave the states' treaty on broadcasting. Bayerischer Rundfunk should offer only a small program. People would then pay much less. Citizens would elect a council to oversee the broadcaster.

The AfD wants to keep small shops, restaurants, schools and bank branches in rural areas. The aim is equal living conditions across Bavaria. Farmland is to take priority over other land uses, and regional marketing of farm products is to be strengthened.

The AfD wants to strengthen life in villages. Small shops should pay less tax. Restaurants in small towns should get help. Schools and kindergartens should stay open. A bank should always be nearby.