AfD: program for the 2026 Berlin state election

The AfD wants to cut regulations systematically and repeal Berlin's own public procurement law. Founders and investors would get a single digital point of contact. In the party's view, the administration should focus more on residents and businesses.

The AfD wants fewer rules for businesses. Berlin has its own law for public contracts. The AfD wants to remove this law. People who start a company should get one office for all questions.

The AfD wants to attract high-tech companies to Berlin in a targeted way. Commercial land would be listed in a public register and made available to businesses as a priority. A central site for startups would be created, modeled on one in Paris.

The AfD wants more industry in Berlin. Above all, tech companies should come. A public list should show free land for businesses. Young companies should get one central place.

The AfD wants to link welfare benefits more closely to cooperation, need and willingness to work. People who work should have noticeably more money than those who do not. Social programs and funded providers would also be reviewed regularly.

The AfD wants conditions for help from the state. People who get help should cooperate and look for work. People who work should have clearly more money. The state should check more often who really needs help.

The AfD supports the nationwide statutory minimum wage but rejects Berlin's higher state minimum wage. In the party's view, it distorts competition and makes public contracts more expensive.

Germany has a minimum wage for the whole country. The AfD thinks it is right. Berlin also has its own, higher minimum wage. The AfD rejects this one.

The AfD wants to expand accessibility based on actual need and keep sheltered workshops for people with disabilities. For older people, it calls for affordable age-appropriate housing, non-digital access to public offices and measures against loneliness. Volunteering would be supported but kept separate from government duties.

The AfD wants to remove barriers where the need is greatest. Workshops for people with disabilities should stay. Older people should get suitable homes. People should be able to reach public offices without the internet.

The AfD wants to refocus homeless services and promote voluntary return programs for homeless people without a German passport. Those the party considers truly in need of protection would receive more support.

Many homeless people in Berlin have no German passport. That is what the AfD says. It wants to help them return to their country by choice. Help for homeless people should be organized differently.

The AfD wants Berlin to push in the Bundesrat for an end to the Grundsteuer (property tax). The federal government would compensate municipalities for the lost revenue. The platform justifies this as relief for owners and for tenants, who pay the tax through their utility charges.

The AfD wants to get rid of the property tax. Owners pay this tax for their land. Tenants pay it too, through their extra housing costs. The federal government should give cities the missing money.

The AfD wants to lower the Gewerbesteuer (local trade tax) and scrap carbon pricing for commercial real estate. The "City Tax" on overnight stays would be abolished and the air travel tax reduced. The platform cites more investment and the lasting effects of COVID policy on tourism, retail and restaurants.

The AfD wants lower taxes for businesses. The tax on hotel stays should end. Flying should be taxed less. Businesses should no longer pay a carbon price for their buildings.

The AfD wants to gradually reduce Berlin's investment backlog, which it puts at 35 billion euros. The money would go to schools, transportation, administration and infrastructure. There would be no new climate or gender projects.

Berlin lacks a lot of money for schools, roads and public offices. The AfD says the gap is 35 billion euros. It wants to close this gap step by step. New climate projects and gender projects should get no more money.

The AfD calls for a comprehensive audit that shows all of Berlin's financial obligations in a single overall balance sheet. This includes off-budget funds, the debts of state-owned companies and future pensions. Core tasks should not be shifted to state-owned companies to get around budget rules.

The AfD wants to show all of Berlin's debts openly. This includes debts of companies the state owns. Future pensions for civil servants should count too. The state should not hide debt in its companies.

The AfD wants to strictly apply the debt brake again and anchor it in Berlin's constitution. Within four years the budget is to run without a deficit, and debt is to be paid down afterward. In the party's view, a firm debt rule protects taxpayers and limits interest rate risks.

The debt brake limits new government debt. The AfD wants to write it into Berlin's constitution. In four years Berlin should take on no new debt. After that Berlin should pay back old debt. Taxes should only fall once the budget is sound.

The AfD wants to systematically review all state spending and limit it to the core tasks of government. Organizations that it believes run political campaigns should no longer receive tax money. The platform sees Berlin's problem mainly in spending and priorities, not in revenue.

The AfD wants to check all of Berlin's spending. Programs with no clear benefit should end. Berlin should only pay for the most important tasks. The AfD says some groups do politics. These groups should get no more tax money.

The AfD wants to direct state investment primarily toward preserving existing infrastructure and keeping it working. It rejects large loan-financed programs because, in its view, they burden the budget permanently. Fixed rules are to apply to special funds, federal money and major projects.

Berlin has many buildings and facilities to repair. The AfD wants to spend money on that first. Police, fire services and digital government also matter to it. The AfD rejects big programs paid for with loans. The state should check big projects carefully before they start.

The AfD wants subsidized housing to go first to people who were born in Berlin or have lived there for many years. A points system would govern allocation, and a special building law for locals would be created. The platform argues that long-term Berliners are at a disadvantage when looking for housing.

The AfD wants subsidized homes to go to Berliners first. That means people born in Berlin or living there for a long time. A points system would decide who gets a home. Building homes for locals would also become easier.

The AfD wants to boost rental housing construction through less regulation and relies on private housing companies to do so. It rejects expropriation and wants to scale back Milieuschutz (neighborhood preservation zones). In the platform's view, a large housing supply is the best way to keep rents down.

The AfD wants fewer rules for building homes. Private companies should build more rental homes. The AfD is against expropriating housing companies. Expropriation means the state takes property away from its owner. Rules that protect existing neighborhoods should also be less strict.

The AfD wants to pay rent subsidies to people who hold a housing entitlement certificate so they can find an apartment on the open market. It thus favors supporting people rather than buildings. Those who live in social housing without being in need would again pay a levy.

The AfD wants to pay money for rent directly to people. This is for people with a housing entitlement certificate. They could then rent a home themselves. People who are no longer poor but live in social housing would pay extra.

The AfD wants tenants to see every cost component in their heating bill and be able to compare providers. State-owned housing companies would have to buy energy in a way that shields tenants from short-term exchange prices. The platform points to high back payments whose causes tenants cannot trace.

The AfD wants clear bills for heating costs. Tenants should see all costs in detail. The state's housing companies should buy energy differently. High back payments should have a limit.

The AfD wants to help more Berliners own their homes, with public loan guarantees and an exemption from the real estate transfer tax for a first owner-occupied purchase. Investors based outside the euro area would instead pay 20 percent. Housing cooperatives would also get more support.

The AfD wants more Berliners to own their home. The state should help with a loan guarantee. A guarantee means the state backs the loan. A tax should be dropped for the first purchase. Housing cooperatives should get more help too.

The AfD wants to speed up building permits by slimming down Berlin's building code. Insulation requirements would return to the level of the early 2000s because, in the platform's view, cost and effort outweigh the benefit. It rejects new state-level duties such as retrofitting solar panels.

The AfD wants building in Berlin to go faster. There should be fewer building rules. Houses would need less insulation. The AfD is against a duty to add solar panels to old houses.

The AfD wants to preserve inner-city allotment gardens permanently and secure them legally. Weekend settlements would also be protected. Citing growing social hardship, it wants their users to be allowed to live there year-round for a limited period.

The AfD wants to keep the allotment gardens in Berlin. Zoning plans should protect the gardens. Weekend settlements should stay too. People should be allowed to live there full-time for 20 years.

The AfD wants to support families with tax breaks and other aid, including family-based income splitting and a waiver of the real estate transfer tax for owner-occupied homes. Its aim is a higher birth rate, which it sees as necessary for the survival of the social security systems.

The AfD wants families to keep more money. Families should pay less tax. A family that buys a home to live in pays no real estate transfer tax. Students with a child also get help. The AfD wants more children to be born.

The AfD wants to pay a state child-rearing allowance to parents of children under three who look after their child themselves. At the same time, daycare is to stay free of charge and the number of places is to grow with demand. German is to be the mandatory language in daycare centers.

Some parents care for small children at home. The AfD wants the state to pay them for this. Daycare should stay free. There should be more daycare places. Everyone should speak German in daycare.

The AfD wants to promote stable marriages and partnerships so that separations happen less often. If parents do split up, both should care for the children, and child support should reflect how much time each parent spends on care. Single parents are to receive more support.

The AfD wants couples to stay together. If parents split up, both should care for the child. A parent who cares more for the child should pay less child support. Single parents should get more help.

The AfD wants youth welfare offices to take children out of their families less often and relies on in-home support and counseling instead. Parents are to get more rights and more legal help in dealing with the youth welfare office. The program justifies this with wrong decisions that, in the party's view, also hit intact families.

The youth welfare office can take children out of a family. The AfD wants this to happen less often. Families should get help and advice first. Parents should have more rights when dealing with the office.

The AfD wants to noticeably lower the number of abortions in Berlin. Expectant parents in need are to receive money and practical help so that they decide to have the child. The party rejects state support for abortions and their recognition as a human right.

The AfD wants fewer abortions. Parents in need should get money and help. That way they should decide to have the child. The AfD does not want the state to support abortions.

The AfD wants to make youth clubs and youth recreation facilities safe places. Crimes committed there are to be prosecuted regardless of political or cultural considerations. Youth centers that the party says have been taken over by left-wing radicals are to get a new concept.

The AfD wants youth clubs to be safe. Police should always follow up on crimes there. Where the offenders come from should not matter. Some youth centers should get a new concept.

The AfD wants to revise the curriculum frameworks and put reading, writing, and arithmetic at the center. School graduates should again be ready for vocational training or university. According to the platform, schools should deliver education and be free of what the AfD calls ideological influence.

The AfD wants to change the school curricula. Reading, writing, and math should matter most. Elementary schools should again teach local studies and crafts. The AfD wants no political influence in class.

The AfD wants to strengthen the principle of achievement in schools and teach self-discipline. The platform considers effort, self-discipline, and the ability to handle frustration to be prerequisites for successful teaching. It sees parents as sharing responsibility for their children's respectful behavior.

The AfD wants more discipline in schools. Achievement should count more again. There should be grades for behavior. Students who disrupt class should go to separate rooms.

The AfD wants to preserve the tiered school system and group classes by similar achievement levels. Places at secondary schools would be awarded by grades and proximity to home, no longer partly by lottery. Highly gifted children are to receive targeted support.

The AfD wants to keep different types of schools. School places should go by grades and where a child lives. The lottery should no longer play a role. Very gifted children should get their own schools.

The AfD wants to expand the pilot project known as "Deutsch-Garantie-Klassen" (German guarantee classes). Elementary schools with many children whose home language is not German would set up separate classes for children with proven strong German skills. The party also wants to ban gender-inclusive language in schools and keep teaching cursive handwriting.

The AfD wants special classes in elementary schools. Only children with very good German can join them. A test will check this. Gender-inclusive language will be banned in schools. Children will still learn cursive writing.

The AfD wants no further delays to school renovations and new buildings, and no cuts to room sizes in school construction. Learning materials would become entirely free, and free school lunch would stay. The party wants to reverse the rule that school meals should largely avoid meat for climate reasons.

The AfD wants to renovate and build schools without delay. School books and other learning materials will be free. School lunch will stay free. Schools will be allowed to serve more meat again.

The AfD wants flagpoles flying the German flag at every school and wants to introduce school uniforms. Elementary schools would stay screen-free, with smartphones banned there. According to the program, students' cultural or financial background should not be in the foreground at school.

The AfD wants the German flag at every school. Students will wear the same school clothing. Parents will get money for it. Elementary schools will have no screens and no phones.

The AfD wants to tackle canceled lessons with a law guaranteeing instruction and teacher staffing at 110 percent. Maximum class size would be written into the school law. Grades and repeating a year would remain, and teachers at schools in disadvantaged areas would teach fewer hours.

The AfD wants fewer canceled lessons. A law and more teachers should make this happen. The law will also set the largest class size. Grades will stay. Teachers at difficult schools will teach fewer hours.

The AfD announces a zero-tolerance strategy on school violence, including calling in the police and possible expulsion. Unexcused absences would be recorded digitally and reported automatically. The youth welfare office would have to be informed of truancy reports.

The AfD wants to punish violence at schools strictly. If someone attacks a teacher, the police will be called. Dangerous students can be removed from school. Schools will record absences digitally. If a student skips school, the school calls the parents right away.

The AfD wants to preserve Förderschulen (special-needs schools) and create the missing school places for children with disabilities. Mainstream schools would be required to include a child only if the child is likely to reach the school's learning goals and the class is not unduly affected.

The AfD wants to keep special-needs schools. There should be enough places for children with disabilities. Regular schools must take these children only under conditions. The child must be able to reach the learning goal. The class must not be disturbed too much.

The AfD wants to strengthen dual vocational training over purely school-based training and rejects a levy on companies that do not train. Instead it relies on an agreement with business and tax relief for companies that train apprentices. Vocational schools would be better equipped and dorms for apprentices created.

The AfD wants to strengthen training in companies and vocational schools. Companies should not pay a fee if they do not train. Companies that train will pay less tax. Vocational schools will get more staff and equipment. There will be dorms for apprentices.

The AfD wants to tighten disciplinary rules in Berlin's higher education law so that occupations can be cleared more easily and violent disrupters expelled quickly. Universities would also be required by law to adopt a "Kodex Wissenschaftsfreiheit" (academic freedom code). In the program's view, research and teaching are threatened by ideology and cancel culture.

The AfD wants stricter rules at universities. Occupied rooms should be cleared faster. People who disrupt with violence should have to leave the university. Universities should adopt fixed rules for free science.

The AfD wants to introduce deferred tuition fees, with repayment depending on later income. It also proposes an additional billion euros for science and research and higher core funding for universities. The program considers it unfair that non-academics help pay through taxes for the studies of future high earners.

The AfD wants tuition fees. People pay them only after their studies. Only those who later earn a lot must pay. Universities will also get one billion euros more for research.

The AfD wants to push Berlin's universities to allow military research as a matter of principle. It argues that such research is crucial for the armed forces' readiness and that Germany cannot rely solely on research done abroad.

The AfD wants universities to be able to do research for the military. It says this is important for the armed forces. Germany should not depend only on other countries' research.

The AfD wants to create more permanent positions in academia and fund them through the university contracts between the state and its universities. It also wants to bring young German researchers back from abroad. The program justifies this with the long periods of insecure employment and the emigration of qualified researchers.

Many young researchers only have short-term contracts. The AfD wants more permanent jobs at universities. The state should pay for them. German researchers abroad should come back. Researchers with children should not be at a disadvantage.

Following the example of Baden-Württemberg, the AfD wants to charge tuition fees for students from countries outside the EU. The revenue is to go toward international student exchange. At the same time, German is to be strengthened as a language of scholarship.

Students from countries outside the EU should pay for their studies. Baden-Württemberg already does this. The money should support student exchange. The AfD also wants more German in science.

The AfD wants to restructure student self-government at Berlin's universities. Its model is the Bavarian system, which has no compulsory membership and no compulsory fee. The program cites low voter turnout, opaque spending and what it sees as improper general political activity by the student bodies.

Today all students in Berlin are members of the student body. They have to pay a fee for it. The AfD wants to change that. Nobody should have to be a member. Bavaria is the model.

The AfD wants to gradually convert teacher training into a single-phase, work-study degree. In the teacher training law, topics such as “diversity,” “queer” and “gender” are to give way to practical content. A scholarship program is meant to attract more teachers for shortage subjects.

The AfD wants to change how teachers are trained. Study and practice should happen together. Topics like gender should matter less. Teaching and classroom management should matter more. There should be scholarships for subjects with too few teachers.

The AfD wants to prohibit sexuality from being addressed in daycare centers and schools in ways it considers boundary-crossing. In its view, the "sex education of diversity" approach violates children's sense of modesty and makes abuse easier.

The AfD wants to ban certain lessons about sexuality in daycare and schools. It says: These lessons harm children. It also rejects readings by drag queens. Drag queens are mostly men who perform in women's clothes.

The AfD wants four periods of physical education per week at all Berlin schools, taught in double periods. Swimming lessons are to start earlier, and schools are to get a legal right to bus transport to the pool. Every child in Berlin should be able to learn to swim.

The AfD wants more sports in school. There should be four periods of sports each week. Children should learn to swim in second grade. A bus should take the children to the pool.

The AfD wants to strengthen children's music education with a state program and a music school law. The share of permanently employed teachers at music schools is to rise from 24 to at least 80 percent.

The AfD wants to strengthen music schools. Children should get a place more easily. Many more teachers should get a permanent job. There should be a new law for this.

The AfD wants to raise investment grants for Berlin's hospitals substantially and replace billing by flat rates per case with a different payment system. The platform cites the risk of insolvencies and closures and a lack of money for buildings, technology and staff.

The AfD wants to give Berlin's hospitals more money. The money is for buildings and equipment. Today hospitals get a fixed sum for each case. The AfD wants to change that. The new payment system should mean less paperwork.

The AfD wants to lift budget caps for doctors' practices and pay for each service individually. More university places, licensing areas based on city districts and after-hours practices are meant to shorten waiting times and spread care more evenly.

Many people wait a long time to see a doctor. The AfD wants doctors to be paid for every treatment. Each district should get an urgent-care practice. There should be more places to study medicine. Doctors should decide freely how to treat patients.

The AfD wants to bring most drug manufacturing back to Germany and to countries it considers safe, and to require wholesalers to hold stocks. Pharmacies are to be put on a sounder economic footing through simpler billing and better pay.

Some medicines are often not available. The AfD wants more medicines to be made in Germany. Wholesalers should keep a stock for two months. Pharmacies should have less paperwork. They should also get more money for giving advice.

The AfD wants to strengthen care at home through a higher Pflegegeld (care allowance) and to fund new nursing home places with state money. The platform cites the growing number of people needing care, inflation and rising out-of-pocket costs.

Many people are cared for at home by their family. The AfD wants to pay a higher care allowance for this. The allowance should go up by 23 percent. Each new nursing home place should get 40,000 euros. Welfare offices should decide on requests faster.

The AfD calls for a review of the COVID period in which those responsible are held to account and people it considers wrongly convicted are rehabilitated. It rejects mandatory vaccination as well as influence by the WHO and the EU over German health care.

The AfD wants to look into the COVID period. It thinks many rules from that time were wrong. Politicians should answer for them. No one should be forced to get a vaccine. The WHO and the EU should not decide on health care in Germany. The WHO is the World Health Organization.

The AfD rejects a central database for patient data and considers data protection for the electronic patient record inadequate. Patients are to decide who receives their data; emergency data and a living will would be stored on the insurance card.

The AfD does not want a central database for patient data. It thinks the data is not protected well enough. Each patient should decide about their own data. Important emergency data should be on the health insurance card.

The AfD wants public health offices to focus on tasks they can actually fulfill and that serve the general public. The platform cites staff shortages and too many duties.

The public health offices do not have enough staff. The AfD wants them to have fewer tasks. They should do only the most important things. One is protecting people from epidemics. Another is checking food and water.

The AfD wants to allow immigration only on the basis of qualifications and need, and to treat asylum purely as temporary protection. People with protection status are to be returned as soon as conditions in their home country allow. The platform argues that Germany is not a country of immigration and that asylum is being misused as a route to permanent settlement.

The AfD wants to keep immigration and asylum apart. Only people with needed skills should immigrate. Asylum should be protection for a limited time. After that, people should go back to their country.

The AfD demands that Berlin immediately stop taking in asylum seekers and deport everyone who is required to leave. It pursues a policy of remigration that includes deportations, voluntary return, and agreements with other countries. The platform argues that immigration is overwhelming the city and its welfare systems.

The AfD wants Berlin to stop taking in asylum seekers. People who must leave should be deported right away. The AfD calls this remigration. It means deportations and voluntary return.

The AfD wants asylum seekers to receive only benefits in kind and to eliminate all additional Berlin benefits. Care, counseling, and housing would be limited to the bare essentials. According to the platform, generous benefits and a lack of deportations draw migrants to Berlin.

The AfD does not want to give asylum seekers money anymore. They should only get things like food and clothing. Extra benefits from Berlin should end. The AfD believes fewer people will then come to Berlin.

The AfD opposes building more Modulare Unterkünfte für Flüchtlinge (MUF, modular refugee housing) and wants to convert existing ones into apartments for all Berliners. In the platform's view, such buildings encourage ghettos and tie up housing. Asylum seekers should not get preference in housing allocation.

Berlin builds special housing for refugees. The AfD wants no new buildings of this kind. The existing ones should become normal apartments. Asylum seekers should not get apartments before others.

The AfD wants to put all naturalizations in Berlin on hold until the cases handled by the state immigration office since early 2024 have been checked for forgeries and corruption. Citizenship should come only at the end of successful integration. Dual citizens could lose it if convicted of serious crimes.

The AfD wants to stop naturalizations in Berlin for now. Naturalization means getting German citizenship. First the office should check all cases since 2024. It should look for fraud and fake tests. Dual citizens who commit serious crimes should lose their German passport.

The AfD wants refugee children taught in separate classes, where possible following the curricula of their countries of origin, to support their later return. The platform treats integration as an obligation of immigrants, with penalties for those who refuse. A German Leitkultur (guiding culture) is to be the binding standard for living together.

The AfD wants to teach refugee children in separate classes. They should learn as they would in their home country if possible. That should make returning easier later. People who do not integrate should face penalties.

The AfD wants to strictly enforce Berlin's Neutralitätsgesetz (neutrality law) for police and the judiciary and to again allow an unrestricted headscarf ban for teachers in schools. Girls under 14 would not be allowed to wear a headscarf at school. The platform warns that a weak neutrality law leads to creeping Islamization and undermines trust in the state.

The AfD wants teachers not to wear a headscarf at school. Girls under 14 should not wear a headscarf at school either. The ban on religious symbols should stay for police and courts. The AfD wants to ban visible prayer on school grounds.

The AfD wants to eliminate commissioner posts, such as those for gender equality and anti-discrimination, and rejects quotas. The money saved would go to family support. The party favors equal opportunity over equal outcomes.

Berlin has officers for gender equality. The AfD wants to end these posts. It also wants no quotas. A quota sets how many women or men get a position. The money saved should go to families.

The AfD wants to repeal Berlin's Climate Protection and Energy Transition Act and pass a Secure Energy Act in its place. It rejects the goal of making Berlin climate neutral by 2045, arguing that it does not affect the global climate and drives up energy costs.

Berlin has a law for climate protection. The AfD wants to end this law. It wants a new law for secure energy. The AfD says: The climate goal for 2045 makes energy expensive and does not help the climate.

The AfD wants to use the Bundesrat (the chamber of the states) to push for a sharp cut in energy taxes and an end to the CO2 levy. The aim is to make electricity and heating cheaper for households and businesses.

The AfD wants to make energy cheaper. Taxes on energy should go down a lot. The CO2 levy should end. That is an extra charge on gasoline, oil and gas. Berlin should propose this in the Bundesrat.

The AfD wants Berlin to keep running coal and gas power plants and to import electricity from a range of sources. It rejects wind turbines within the city. In its view, weather-dependent energy cannot reliably supply a city of millions.

The AfD wants to keep power plants that run on coal and gas. Berlin should also buy power from outside. The AfD does not want wind turbines in Berlin. It says: Wind and sun do not always deliver enough power.

The AfD wants Germany to use nuclear power again and will push for this at the federal level. Berlin is to become a center for nuclear research once more. The party regards the nuclear phase-out as a serious mistake.

The AfD wants nuclear power in Germany again. It wants to push for this at the national level. Berlin should do a lot of nuclear research again. The AfD says: Ending nuclear power was a mistake.

The AfD rejects wind turbines in Berlin's forests. It also rejects the target of setting aside 0.5 percent of the state's area for wind power.

The AfD wants no wind turbines in Berlin's forests. Berlin is supposed to use part of its land for wind power. The AfD rejects this goal. It says wind turbines destroy nature and places to relax.

The AfD wants to end the climate-neutral conversion of Berlin's heat supply on the planned, debt-financed scale. Climate policy measures should not lead to higher prices for Berliners. Fare and pricing decisions in public transit are to depend on how they are financed.

Berlin wants to make its district heating without coal and gas. That costs a lot of money. The AfD wants to stop this change at the planned size. It does not want to take on high debt for it. Climate policy should not raise prices for Berliners.

The AfD wants to give priority to maintaining parks and green spaces and to equip the districts better for this task. Every felled tree is to be replaced by a new one, and the city's forests are to be preserved for the long term.

The AfD wants better care for parks and green spaces. The districts should get more money and staff for this. A new tree should be planted for every tree cut down. Berlin's forests should also be kept.

The AfD wants to cut land consumption and protect near-natural areas. Green spaces, forests and water areas would no longer be built on, and some paved ground would be opened up again.

The AfD wants less ground to be built over. No building on green spaces, in forests or on water areas. Some paved ground should be opened again. Then rainwater can soak into the soil.

The AfD wants stronger protection for drinking water and waterways and a renewal of water infrastructure. This includes modernized treatment, sewage plants with a fourth purification stage and separate sewers for rainwater and wastewater.

The AfD wants to protect Berlin's water better. Sewage plants should remove more harmful substances. Rain and wastewater should flow in separate pipes. Old pipes should be replaced step by step.

The AfD wants to detect non-native animal and plant species early and contain their populations in order to protect native species. It also wants to strengthen volunteer monitoring of Berlin's urban nature.

Some animals and plants do not come from Berlin. They push out native species. The AfD wants to push these species back. More experts should work on this. Volunteers should also find it easier to count animals and plants.

The AfD wants to upgrade animal welfare as a public responsibility. It calls for a second, state-owned animal shelter, more staff in the veterinary offices and an end to the dog tax.

The AfD wants to do more for animal welfare. Berlin should get a second animal shelter. The offices for animal health should get more staff. The dog tax should be dropped.

The AfD names road safety as its top priority, pointing to 37 deaths and more than 1,800 serious injuries on Berlin's roads. It calls for binding road safety audits, better visibility at intersections, and programs for school routes and junctions. Sidewalks are also to be repaired systematically.

People die in accidents on Berlin's roads. The AfD wants to make the roads safer. Intersections and routes to school should get better. Dangerous spots should be fixed faster. Sidewalks should be repaired too.

The AfD wants to make buses and trains more attractive so that people switch voluntarily. This includes more staff, a rapid expansion of the rail network, digital train control and simpler ticketing. Safety and cleanliness patrols and access barriers for people without a ticket are to be added.

The AfD wants better buses and trains. Then more people will switch by choice. There should be more staff and more tracks. Patrols should keep the subway safe. People without a ticket should not get in.

The AfD sees the car as an indispensable part of urban mobility. It calls for building the 17th section of the A 100 highway, bringing back removed parking spaces and scaling back paid parking zones. Instead of Kiezblocks (neighborhood traffic barriers), traffic on main roads is to flow better.

The AfD does not want cars to be at a disadvantage in Berlin. The A 100 highway should be extended. Removed parking spaces should come back. Parking for residents should stay cheap. Neighborhoods should not be closed to cars.

The AfD wants to convert Berlin's Mobility Act into an infrastructure law. The legal priority for public transit, cycling and walking is to be dropped without replacement, as are the expansion targets for the bike network. In the program's view, the law pursues a one-sided transport transition instead of objective needs assessments.

Berlin has a Mobility Act. It gives priority to buses, trains, bikes and people on foot. The AfD wants to remove this priority. All ways of getting around should be treated the same. Bike lanes should only be built where needed.

The AfD wants to reform winter road service so that pedestrian safety comes first. In extreme icy conditions, limited use of road salt on sidewalks would be allowed; the street cleaning law would be amended for this.

Sidewalks are often icy in winter. The AfD wants to allow salt on sidewalks then. This should apply only when the ice is very bad. Older people in particular should be able to walk more safely. The AfD wants to change a law for this.

The AfD rejects the EU's planned scanning of private messenger communications. The Berlin Senate is to commit to protecting privacy, and state agencies would be barred from technically assisting in such monitoring. The program warns of mass surveillance and false suspicions.

The EU wants private chat messages to be searched automatically. This is called chat control. The AfD is against it. Berlin's public offices should not be allowed to help with it. A new rule should ban such scans on private devices.

The AfD wants to repeal Berlin's state anti-discrimination law immediately and give the police more powers. These include full video surveillance in high-crime areas, more stops without cause, and nighttime curfews for juvenile repeat offenders. It also wants to create a district police force.

The AfD wants more cameras in dangerous places. The police should be able to check people more often without a reason. Young people with many crimes should have to stay home at night. A law against unfair treatment by public offices should go. Each district should get its own police.

The AfD wants to hire more staff for the police, the justice system, and the fire department and to improve pay. Buildings and equipment are to be modernized, with heavy investment in the fire department. It rejects lower hiring standards and quotas.

The AfD wants more staff for the police, the courts, and the fire department. They should get better pay. Old buildings should be repaired. The fire department should get new vehicles and gear. Hiring standards should not be lowered.

The AfD wants crime statistics to show a migration background even for German suspects. It argues that these groups commit crimes at a disproportionate rate and that this must not be obscured. Antisemitic, anti-German, and anti-Christian incidents are also to be counted separately.

The police count crimes in statistics. The AfD wants more data there on where suspects come from. For Germans too, it should show if their family immigrated. Acts against Jews, Germans, and Christians should be counted separately.

The AfD wants to fight organized crime and clan structures mainly through deportations and by confiscating criminally acquired assets. A special unit at the immigration office is to pool expulsions of foreign criminals. The program describes organized crime as largely imported.

The AfD wants to act against criminal clans. A clan here means a large family that commits crimes. Foreign criminals with no right to stay should have to leave. A special team at the immigration office should speed this up. The state should take away money made from crime.

The AfD wants to reorganize Berlin's justice system, which it sees as overloaded, and to toughen criminal law. Children would be criminally responsible from age 12, and adult criminal law would always apply from 18. For knife attacks it demands harsher penalties and fast-track proceedings.

The AfD wants to make Berlin's courts faster. Children should be punishable from age 12. Today that starts at age 14. Anyone who is 18 should be punished like an adult. Knife attacks should get harsher sentences.

The AfD wants to cut funding for organizations it classifies as left-wing extremist or as left-wing front groups. Islamist extremism is to be monitored more closely, and people deemed dangerous are to be deported even to Syria and Afghanistan. It demands tougher penalties for attacks on critical infrastructure.

The AfD wants to act against extremists. Extremists reject democracy. Left-wing groups should get no more money from the state. The state should watch Islamists more closely. Dangerous foreigners should be deported.

The AfD wants to expand Berlin's disaster preparedness and better protect critical infrastructure. Hospitals, nursing homes, and other key facilities are to get binding plans for power outages and sabotage. The program points to attacks on the power supply that it says exposed shortcomings.

The AfD wants Berlin to be better prepared for emergencies. One example is a long power outage. Hospitals and nursing homes should have backup power and emergency plans. There should be more sirens. Sirens warn people when there is danger.

The AfD wants to close mosques it considers hostile to the constitution and ban the associations behind them. Mosques would no longer be allowed to receive money from abroad. The platform sees Islamism and religious fundamentalism as a growing threat to security, freedom, and social cohesion in Berlin.

The AfD wants to close some mosques. It means mosques that work against the constitution. Mosques should get no money from other countries. The AfD sees Islamism as a danger for Berlin.

The AfD wants to tackle litter, graffiti and neglect in public spaces. Public order offices would operate around the clock, littering hotspots would be monitored by video, and homeless camps and abandoned cars would be cleared quickly.

The AfD wants to make Berlin cleaner. The public order offices should work day and night. Places with a lot of trash should get cameras. Teams should remove trash and graffiti quickly. Camps of homeless people should be cleared.

The AfD wants Berlin to push in the Bundesrat for abolishing Section 188 of the German Criminal Code. The provision imposes special penalties for insulting politicians. In the program's view, it now serves to prosecute critical statements.

There is a law that gives politicians special protection from insults. The AfD wants to end this law. Berlin should propose that in the Bundesrat. The AfD says the law is used against criticism. It says the normal rules on insults are enough.

The AfD wants to expand direct democracy in Berlin: citizens could overturn laws already passed through a Volkseinwand (popular veto), and every change to the state constitution would go to a public vote. This is meant to give Berliners the final say on fundamental decisions.

The AfD wants more public votes. Citizens should be able to stop new laws. To do so, they must collect signatures. Then everyone votes on the law. The people should also vote on every change to Berlin's constitution.

The AfD wants Berliners to elect the governing mayor and the district mayors directly instead of leaving this to the parliaments. The districts are also to gain more legal and financial independence.

Today the parliament elects Berlin's governing mayor. The AfD wants citizens to elect the mayor directly. The same should apply to the mayors of the districts. The districts should also get their own money. They should be able to go to court themselves.

The AfD wants to bar members of Berlin's state parliament from sitting in another parliament at the same time. In addition, no one should be both a lawmaker and a member of the government.

A lawmaker in Berlin should sit in only one parliament. They should not also sit in the Bundestag. They should not also sit in the European Parliament. Anyone in the government should not be a lawmaker.

The AfD wants the Berlin state parliament to set up a committee of inquiry into the COVID period. It also wants Berlin to launch an initiative in the Bundesrat for an amnesty covering all convictions connected to COVID measures.

The AfD wants to investigate the COVID period. A committee in the Berlin parliament should do this. Some people were punished for breaking COVID rules. The AfD wants these punishments canceled. This is called an amnesty.

The AfD wants to stop giving public money to organizations it classifies as far-left. Reporting offices such as the Berliner Register or CLAIM would also lose state funding and have to rely on private financing alone.

Berlin gives money to clubs and organizations. The AfD sees some of them as far-left. They should get no more money from the state. This also applies to reporting offices. People can report things like discrimination there.

The AfD wants to preserve, cultivate and promote the German language as the core of culture. It rejects gender-inclusive language, which it sees as political interference in the natural development of the language.

The AfD wants to protect and support the German language. It is against gender-inclusive language. That is a way of writing that names women and men with special signs. The AfD says this divides society.

The AfD wants new guidelines for public arts funding: projects directed against the democratic constitutional order or that encourage antisemitism should get no money, and applicants' political views should play no role. Both major institutions and grassroots culture, especially in the outer districts, are to be supported.

The AfD wants new rules for public money for culture. Projects against democracy should get no money. Projects that support hatred of Jews should get none either. Political opinions should not matter for funding. The outer districts should get more culture too.

The AfD wants to better secure museums, archives and monuments and create a state law to protect cultural property. Preserving collections should take budget priority over funding for artists, and heritage protection offices should get more staff.

The AfD wants to better protect old buildings and works of art. Berlin should get its own law for this. The offices that protect monuments should get more staff. Museums and archives should get money first. Traditional crafts should be strengthened.

The AfD opposes renaming streets and squares for what it considers ideological reasons. New names should be chosen by objective criteria, and residents should have more say.

The AfD wants to keep street names. It is against renaming for political reasons. There should be clear rules for new names. Residents should have more say.

The AfD wants to restore lost historic buildings and urban spaces in Berlin according to their original design in order to foster identity. This is to be paid for mainly through donations and private patrons.

The AfD wants to rebuild old structures in Berlin. They should look as they did in the past. This should make the city's history visible again. The money should come mainly from donors.

The AfD wants to terminate the Rundfunkstaatsvertrag (interstate broadcasting treaty) and abolish the mandatory broadcasting fee. Public broadcasters should fund themselves through voluntary payments, such as subscriptions or pay-per-view.

The AfD wants to end the broadcasting fee. Nobody should have to pay for public TV and radio anymore. The stations should get money only from people who choose to pay. For example through a subscription.

The AfD wants to bar public authorities and publicly funded bodies from blocking citizens on social networks because of their opinions. The licensing requirement for online services is to be dropped, and the state media authorities should stick to core tasks.

The AfD wants to protect free speech on the internet. Public offices should not be allowed to block citizens there. Internet companies should not need a license from the state. The media regulators should have fewer tasks.

The AfD wants to strengthen remembrance of the injustices of the SED dictatorship in East Germany and create new memorial and research sites. In its view, remembrance policy should show German history in full, including achievements as well as Nazi rule and the communist dictatorship.

The AfD wants more remembrance of injustice in East Germany. An old police prison should become a memorial site. There should also be an institute that studies communism. Remembrance should show all of German history.

The AfD wants a new concept for the memorial to the East German uprising of June 17, 1953, located in Zehlendorf. The occasion is the 75th anniversary of the uprising. The platform says the site has been neglected for a long time.

On June 17, 1953, people in East Germany rose up. A memorial in Zehlendorf recalls this. The AfD wants to redesign the memorial. Visitors should learn more there. It should also be easier to reach.

The AfD rejects postcolonialism as an ideology and wants to stop giving public money to initiatives of this kind. In the platform's view, postcolonial theories endanger a balanced culture of remembrance and social cohesion.

Some groups look critically at the colonial era. This is called postcolonialism. The AfD rejects this way of thinking. Such groups should get no more state money. The AfD says this thinking harms social cohesion.

The AfD wants to clear the repair backlog at Berlin's sports facilities with major investment and an emergency program, and no more sports grounds should be given up. New construction projects are to plan for additional sports space. Facilities should also be better suited to people with disabilities.

Berlin has too few sports fields and gyms. Many are in bad shape. The AfD wants to spend a lot of money on repairs. New sports space should be added. People with disabilities should be able to use it well too.

The AfD wants to give more support to competitive sports in Berlin and backs a bid by the city to host the Olympic Games. In the party's view, this requires fully disclosed costs and a secured later use of the venues. Performance and competition are to count for more in sports again.

The AfD wants to support top-level sports in Berlin. Berlin should apply to host the Olympic Games. All costs must be made public first. The new venues should stay in use afterward.