AfD: program for the 2024 Brandenburg state election

The AfD makes reindustrializing Brandenburg a priority and wants to secure existing industrial sites. A state initiative is meant to make trades and industrial jobs more attractive, including through free master craftsman training.

The AfD wants more industry in Brandenburg again. Training to become a master craftsman should be free. Starting a company should become easier. Steel plants in the state should stay.

The AfD wants to set up special economic zones where simpler administrative and legal rules apply to investors, founders and business owners. The platform points to Poland as a model.

The AfD wants to create special areas for business. Simpler rules for companies should apply there. Decisions should be fast and involve little paperwork. Poland already does this.

The AfD wants to preserve, extend and better connect hiking, cycling and themed routes and other tourist attractions. From 2025, the state budget is to include a dedicated tourism budget for districts and cities.

The AfD wants to do more for tourism. Hiking and bike trails should get better. Districts and cities should get their own money for this from 2025. Local restaurants should also get support.

The AfD wants Brandenburg to press the federal government to get the EU-wide ban on combustion engines lifted. It cites looming losses of jobs and prosperity and wants to advance e-fuel research in the state.

The EU has decided that new cars with gasoline or diesel engines will be banned. The AfD wants to overturn this ban. It fears that many jobs will be lost. Brandenburg should do research on e-fuels. These are fuels made artificially.

The AfD wants to provide targeted support for the video game industry in Brandenburg. It regards digital games as a cultural asset and as a sector with great potential for jobs.

The AfD wants to support companies that make video games. New companies should come to Brandenburg. This should create jobs. The AfD says games are also culture.

The AfD wants regular, independent audits of social sector providers to prevent waste. Only welfare organizations that behave in a politically neutral way would receive state money.

The AfD wants to check welfare groups more closely. This is meant to stop wasted money. Only politically neutral groups should get state money.

The AfD wants to raise the state allowance for blind people from 345.80 euros to at least 500 euros a month and tie it to inflation. It also wants allowances for visually impaired and deafblind people and higher pay in sheltered workshops for people with disabilities.

Blind people should get more money from the state. It should be at least 500 euros a month. People with poor eyesight should also get money. Pay in workshops for disabled people should go up.

The AfD wants to enable older people to live self-determined, socially connected lives. To that end, senior-friendly infrastructure in rural areas, projects against loneliness, and intergenerational programs would be expanded.

Older people should be able to live well and independently. Rural areas should have doctors, shops, post offices, banks, and buses. The AfD wants to do something about loneliness. Old and young should do more together.

The AfD wants the number of one's own children to count more in calculating pensions, for example through extra pension points for child-raising periods. It also wants disadvantages from the conversion of East German pensions to be fully remedied.

People with children should get a higher pension. That is what the AfD wants. Some people from East Germany get too little pension today. The AfD wants to change that.

The AfD wants to reward volunteer service in aid organizations with additional pension entitlements. This is meant to address recruitment problems, which the platform attributes in part to the end of conscription and alternative civilian service.

Many people volunteer with the fire department or the Red Cross. They get no money for it. The AfD wants them to get a higher pension in return. That should get more people to join.

The AfD demands sweeping tax cuts: property tax, inheritance and gift tax, the solidarity surcharge, and the CO₂ levy would be scrapped. Incomes, savings, and businesses would get relief because the party believes the tax burden dampens the will to work.

The AfD wants to abolish many taxes. These include the property tax and the inheritance tax. The charge on CO₂ should also go. People and companies should pay less tax.

The AfD wants water associations and municipalities to quickly refund connection fees that were charged unlawfully. The state is to set uniform rules for this and keep the associations and municipalities from becoming insolvent as a result.

Many people in Brandenburg paid fees for water connections that were not lawful. The AfD wants them to get their money back fast. The state should make the same rules for everyone. Water associations and towns should not go broke because of this.

The AfD wants the state to pay in full for building and upgrading municipal roads. Residents would no longer be charged, because the platform regards road building as a basic public service.

Residents often have to pay when their street is built. The AfD wants to end that. The state should pay all of these costs. The party says roads are a job for the government.

The AfD wants to revise the fiscal equalization act and the municipal charges act. The aim is to keep most municipalities from sliding into provisional budget management over late annual accounts and having to cut voluntary spending.

Many towns are behind on their yearly accounts. Then they may only pay for required tasks. Clubs, for example, would get no more money. The AfD wants to change the laws so this does not happen.

The AfD aims for a state budget without new debt and wants to review and limit government spending. The administration is not to grow further, and citizens are not to face a higher financial burden.

The state should not spend more money than it takes in. The AfD wants to check and cut spending. There should be no extra jobs in government offices. People should not pay more than they do today.

The AfD wants tax offices to treat business owners with less suspicion and to work faster. Taxpayers are to receive a draft of their tax return prepared by the office.

Tax offices should be friendlier to citizens. They should not suspect businesses right away. Tax returns should be processed faster. The office should fill in part of the tax return in advance.

The AfD demands that a right to cash be written into the Grundgesetz (Basic Law). It sees cash as protection against financial control and surveillance by the state and banks.

The AfD wants to protect cash. The right to cash should be written into the constitution. The AfD says that without cash, the state and banks can see everything. They would know who pays for what.

The AfD wants to make the waste of public funds a criminal offense, comparable to tax evasion. Politicians are also to be personally liable, because in the party's view waste has hardly any consequences so far.

Anyone who wastes tax money should be punished. It should be treated like tax fraud. Politicians should also be personally liable. The AfD says almost nothing happens to those responsible today.

The AfD wants to reorganize how tax revenue is split between the state and municipalities so that towns and villages receive more money. According to the party, most municipalities are chronically underfunded.

Towns and villages should get more money from the state. The AfD says many municipalities have too little money. They can hardly pay for their tasks. Often almost nothing is left for sports and culture.

The AfD wants to lower Brandenburg's real estate transfer tax from 6.5 to three percent. For the purchase of a first owner-occupied home it is to be dropped entirely, to make it easier for families to buy their own home.

People who buy a house or land pay a tax. In Brandenburg it is 6.5 percent. The AfD wants to cut it to 3 percent. For a first home of your own, you should pay nothing.

The AfD wants to raise the Wohngeld (housing allowance) and simplify applications. It sees this as the alternative to social housing construction, which in its view often misses its goal.

The AfD wants to pay more housing allowance. Applying should be easier. The AfD thinks this is better than building social housing. Housing cooperatives should also become more important again.

The AfD wants to harmonize building law nationwide, speed up procedures, and lower construction standards to bring down building and housing costs. The special rules in the federal building code for constructing refugee housing are to be dropped.

The AfD wants building to be easier and cheaper. There should be fewer rules. The rules should be the same all over Germany. Special rules for building refugee housing should go away.

The AfD wants to make housing cheaper through a much simpler state building code, lower ancillary building costs, and tax relief. The property transfer tax on a first owner-occupied home and the annual property tax are to be abolished, and locals are to get priority for housing.

The AfD wants housing in Brandenburg to cost less. People buying their first own home should pay no tax on the purchase. The yearly property tax should also go away. Local people should get housing first. Buyers from abroad should pay more tax.

The AfD wants to enable more families to buy or build a home. To that end, state loans are to be expanded, guarantees granted, building land sold at a discount, and a state home-building child allowance introduced that scales with the number of children.

The AfD wants more families to be able to own a home. The state should help them with loans and guarantees. Families should get building land for less. There should be a state building allowance for children. Families with more children get more.

The AfD wants to strengthen the family of father, mother and children and counter population decline with a family policy that encourages births. It wants to reduce the number of abortions through help for families, easier adoption, anonymous birth and baby hatches.

The AfD wants to strengthen families with a father, a mother and children. More children should be born. Women should get help so they do not have an abortion. Adoption should become easier. There should be enough baby hatches.

The AfD wants abortions to remain the exception and rejects declaring abortion a human right. Counseling should follow set quality standards and inform women about the stage of fetal development and possible long-term effects.

The AfD wants few abortions. Abortion should not become a human right. Counseling for pregnant women should be stricter. It should also explain possible effects.

The AfD wants to substantially reduce taxes and social insurance contributions for families so they can live on a single income. This includes family-based income splitting, a higher child allowance, and a refund of pension contributions at each birth.

The AfD wants families to pay less tax. Social insurance payments should also go down. A family should be able to live on one salary. Parents should get back 20,000 euros in pension payments per child.

The AfD wants to phase in a Familiengeld (family allowance) and offer families interest-free loans of 25,000 euros. The aim is to ease the burden on lower-income families and encourage people to have children.

The AfD wants a new family payment. Families should also get a loan without interest. The loan is 25,000 euros. With each child, parents pay back less.

The AfD holds up the family of father, mother, and children as the ideal and wants to end what it calls the "cult around rainbow families." It rejects extending limited custody rights to more people and adding children's rights to the constitution.

For the AfD, the best family is father, mother, and children. It does not want rainbow families to get special attention. No more than two people should have custody. Children's rights should not be added to the constitution.

The AfD wants to give single parents more support and reduce the effects of separation on children. Unmarried parents would automatically share custody from birth, and fathers should be able to have more contact with their children.

The AfD wants to help single parents more. Children should suffer less when parents split up. Unmarried parents should both have custody right away. Fathers should be able to see their children more often.

The AfD wants to introduce a Betreuungsgeld (care allowance) as wage replacement for parents or grandparents who care for children themselves in the first three years. Care at home should get the same financial support as daycare or childminders.

Parents should get money when they care for their small child themselves. This applies to the first three years. Grandparents can also get the money. Parents should choose freely between daycare and care at home.

The AfD wants to provide at least 750 million euros for building and renovating daycare centers and schools and to complete the reform of daycare law. Training for childcare workers should become more attractive without lowering standards; daycare content should reflect the majority of society.

The AfD wants to spend a lot on daycare centers and schools. It is at least 750 million euros. There should be more childcare workers. The AfD does not want daycare to deal with sexuality and minorities.

The AfD calls for attendance at public nurseries, including meals, to be free in order to ease the burden on parents. It also wants more flexible opening hours and new care options after after-school care ends.

Nursery care should cost parents nothing. The meals there should also be free. Daycare should be open longer and more flexibly. This helps parents who work.

The AfD wants to waive BAföG repayment for young parents in training or at university and extend the standard period of study. At universities, permanent positions, support programs and childcare are meant to make starting a family easier.

The AfD wants to help parents who study or train for a job. They would not have to pay back their BAföG. BAföG is state money for students and trainees. Parents would be allowed to study longer. Every university would have childcare.

The AfD wants to turn the final two years of kindergarten into a preschool. A binding curriculum with uniform standards is meant to prepare children for school.

The AfD wants to create a preschool. It would cover the last two years of kindergarten. All children would learn by the same plan. This should get them ready for school.

The AfD wants more elementary school hours for German and math and would drop the first foreign language in grades 1 to 4 to make room. Children would start school only at age six, and handwriting would get more practice.

The AfD wants more German and math in elementary school. The first foreign language would be dropped in grades 1 to 4. Children would start school only at age six. They would write by hand more often. All children should learn to swim.

The AfD wants schools to put more weight on performance. This includes conduct grades from grade 1, the nine-year track to the Abitur at the Gymnasium (G9), the three-tier school system and more teacher-led instruction.

The AfD wants schools to demand more effort. There would be conduct grades from grade 1. These are grades for behavior and class work. The Gymnasium would again lead to the Abitur in nine years. Teachers would teach from the front of the class more often.

The AfD wants to ban the approach known as "sex education of diversity" in daycare centers and schools and allow sex education only in biology class. It also says it wants to restore the political neutrality of schools.

The AfD wants to ban a certain kind of sex education. It deals with the diversity of gender and love. Sex education would only take place in biology class. Schools would fly only the state and national flags. Rainbow flags would not be allowed there.

The AfD wants to keep kindergartens, preschools and elementary schools free of digital devices through grade 6. A smartphone ban for the entire school day would be written into the school law.

The AfD wants no digital devices in daycare and elementary school. This would apply up to grade 6. Smartphones would be banned at school. The ban covers the whole school day and the school grounds.

The AfD wants to end the current inclusion policy in schools, which it calls chaotic. Instead, a dense network of well-equipped special-needs schools (Förderschulen) would be built.

Today children with and without disabilities often learn together. This is called inclusion. The AfD wants to end this policy. It wants to build more special-needs schools and equip them well. The state would train its own teachers for these schools.

The AfD wants to limit the share of students with a migration background at public schools to a maximum of ten percent. Students with too little German would enter regular classes only after a language course and test; the party also plans a headscarf ban and a German-only rule on school grounds.

The AfD wants a limit for children from immigrant families at schools. At most ten percent of students should come from such families. Children with little German must first pass a language course and a test. Headscarves would be banned at schools. Everyone would have to speak German on school grounds.

The AfD wants to shorten teacher training, make it more practical and return to the state examination. Administrative staff, more school psychologists and promotion posts are meant to relieve teachers and make the job more attractive.

Brandenburg does not have enough teachers. The AfD wants to make training shorter and more practical. A new training site would open in Frankfurt (Oder). Office staff would take work off teachers. There would be many more school psychologists.

The AfD wants to turn compulsory school attendance into a duty to be educated and allow homeschooling in a pilot project. It argues that the state no longer keeps its promise of the best educational opportunities.

Today all children must go to a school. The AfD wants to change that. Children could also learn at home. This would first be tried in a test project. Children would still have to learn.

The AfD wants to give universities reliable core funding instead of awarding government project grants. In its view, this is the only way to secure freedom of research and teaching.

The AfD wants to give universities more fixed money. Today they get a lot of money only for single projects. The AfD says this makes universities dependent. Universities should decide on their own courses of study.

The AfD wants to charge students from non-EU countries fees that cover the cost of their studies. This is meant to relieve taxpayers; the revenue would go toward better teaching.

The AfD wants fees for some students from abroad. This affects students from countries outside the EU. They would pay the cost of their studies themselves. The money would improve teaching at universities.

The AfD wants an open-ended review of the Bologna reform. Brandenburg's universities would again be allowed to offer Magister and Diplom programs because the party believes the quality of studies has declined.

Universities used to award degrees called Magister and Diplom. Today there are mostly bachelor's and master's degrees. The AfD wants to allow the old degrees again. It says that studying has become worse.

The AfD wants to fund professorships on the history of East Germany (GDR) and on communism. The topic would again have a firm place in research and school lessons.

The AfD wants more research on East Germany and communism. Universities would get professorships for this. Students at school would also learn more about it. The professors should come from eastern Germany if possible.

The AfD wants to set up a state fund that subsidizes liability insurance premiums for freelance midwives. The platform cites a looming shortage of midwives in rural areas.

Midwives pay a lot for their insurance. The state should help them with that. There should be a special fund for it. This way, rural areas should have enough midwives.

The AfD wants to improve working conditions in care and ensure well-trained, well-paid staff. Society as a whole should bear the cost of care, without burdening family members.

Work in care should get better. Care workers should be well trained and well paid. Families should not have to pay for care. Society as a whole should do that.

The AfD wants to train more doctors in the state and give more support to practices in rural areas. Medical school places, rural doctor scholarships, and subsidies would be expanded, and red tape in practices and hospitals reduced.

Rural areas lack doctors. The AfD wants to train more doctors in Brandenburg. There should be more scholarships for future rural doctors. Doctors should have less paperwork.

The AfD wants to set up new hospital departments so that every pregnant woman can reach a maternity ward within 40 minutes. Each woman in labor is to be cared for by her own midwife.

The AfD wants more maternity wards in hospitals. Every pregnant woman should get there in 40 minutes. During birth, one midwife should care for just one woman.

The AfD wants to tackle the shortage of nursing staff with more training places, scholarships and better pay. People who care for relatives at home are to receive wage-replacement benefits.

The AfD wants to train more nurses in Brandenburg. There should be more training places and scholarships. People who care for family members at home should get money for it.

The AfD wants to abolish budget caps for doctors and dentists so that treatment is not limited by budgets. It also wants to bring back the new-patient rule so that new patients get appointments faster.

Doctors today have a limited budget for treatments. The AfD wants to remove this limit. Health insurance fees should not go up because of it. New patients should get an appointment faster.

The AfD calls for thorough checks of foreign medical degrees and work references, especially from countries outside the EU. Doctors trained abroad should also know the German health system from day one.

Some doctors studied in other countries. The AfD wants to check their papers closely. This applies most to countries outside the EU. These doctors should also know the German health system well.

The AfD wants to prevent hospital closures, improve hospital reimbursement and permanently raise state investment. New units for short-term care and early rehabilitation are meant to strengthen hospitals in rural areas.

The AfD does not want hospitals to close. Hospitals should get more money. Hospitals should get new units for short-term care. Early rehab should also be possible there.

The AfD wants to revise the state's emergency services law and involve aid organizations and private companies more. An overall plan is meant to get ambulances to patients faster.

The AfD wants to change the law on emergency services. Private companies should also take part. Ambulances should reach patients faster. More people should know the number 116 117.

The AfD rejects any vaccine mandate and wants a scientific and legal review of Covid policy in Brandenburg. In future outbreaks, only evidence-based and proportionate measures should apply.

The AfD does not want mandatory vaccination. Everyone should decide about their own body. The AfD wants Covid policy in the state to be examined. The WHO should have no say in Brandenburg.

The AfD rejects the United Nations migration pact because, in its view, it strengthens the rights of illegal migrants and imposes duties on host countries. Instead it calls for a European pact that makes it possible to return everyone who entered illegally.

The AfD opposes the United Nations migration pact. It wants a different agreement in Europe. That agreement should make all illegal migrants go back. The AfD calls this remigration.

The AfD wants to replace the individually enforceable right to asylum with an institutional guarantee and to end family reunification for refugees entirely. It cites abuse of asylum law and exhausted reception capacity in Brandenburg.

The AfD wants to change asylum law. Today a person can go to court to claim asylum. That should no longer be possible. Refugees should not be allowed to bring their families. Only people who prove who they are should be able to apply for asylum.

The AfD wants to replace cash benefits for asylum seekers entirely with benefits in kind and to stop social benefits for people obliged to leave. It also wants a high tax on money transfers to countries outside Europe. In the party's view, this would remove incentives to immigrate into the welfare system.

Asylum seekers should no longer get cash. They should get things like food and clothing instead. People who must leave the country should get no welfare benefits. People who send money abroad should pay a high tax on it. The AfD says fewer people will then come for the money.

The AfD calls for permanent securing and control of the border to prevent unauthorized entry into Brandenburg. Anyone caught crossing the border illegally is to be refused entry; those picked up inside the country are to be detained immediately.

The AfD wants to control the border all the time. People who cross without permission should not be allowed in. Fences on the border with Poland are also possible. People in the country without permission should be detained. Commuters and vacationers should still be able to cross easily.

The AfD wants asylum procedure counseling to be provided only by state bodies and to cut funding for independent organizations that hinder deportations. People who help create obstacles to deportation are to be punished. The party argues these organizations have a financial interest in high refugee numbers.

Today, associations often advise asylum seekers. The AfD wants only the state to give this advice. Associations should get no public money if they get in the way of deportations. People who stop a deportation should be punished.

The AfD wants towns and municipalities to decide for themselves how many asylum seekers they take in. Residents are to be informed early and have a say; accommodation is to be concentrated in a few central facilities.

Towns should decide for themselves how many asylum seekers they take in. People living nearby should be told early. They should have a say. Asylum seekers should live in a few large shelters.

The AfD sees integration as an obligation of immigrants and demands acceptance of local rules, traditions and values as well as German language skills. It wants to prevent parallel societies from forming in Brandenburg and to counter what it sees as growing Islamization.

The AfD says immigrants must make the effort to integrate. They must learn German. They should accept the rules and values of the country. Migrants should get no advantages through quotas. The AfD does not want closed-off groups in the state. It wants to limit the influence of Islam.

The AfD wants to remove birthright citizenship from nationality law and return to citizenship by descent. There would no longer be any entitlement to naturalization, and the requirements would rise considerably.

Today, children of foreigners can become German if they are born in Germany. The AfD wants to end that. Only people with German parents should be German by birth. Becoming a citizen should get much harder. Nobody should have a right to it anymore.

The AfD announces an extensive deportation program to run until 2029. First, false statements made in order to immigrate are to be uncovered statewide; then everyone obliged to leave is to be returned on a large scale. The party sees asylum as a temporary right.

The AfD wants to deport many people by 2029. First it wants to look for false statements by immigrants. Then everyone who must leave should go. Criminals should be deported first. Brandenburg should get a detention center for deportations. Asylum should only last for a limited time.

The AfD rejects quota rules. In its view, quotas for women devalue women's achievements and are themselves a form of discrimination.

The AfD is against quotas for women. A quota sets how many women must get a position. The AfD thinks quotas are unfair. Women and men should choose their path freely.

The AfD wants to prohibit gender-inclusive special characters at the state's schools and universities and in official school letters. The generic masculine or naming both forms would be mandatory.

The AfD wants to ban gender-inclusive language at schools and universities. Signs like the gender star would no longer be allowed there. The short spoken pause would also be banned. People must use the male form or name both forms.

The AfD rejects what it calls the Islamization of towns and municipalities. Local residents should decide whether mosques or minarets are built.

The AfD wants local people to vote on new mosques. This also goes for minarets. A minaret is the tower of a mosque. The AfD does not want Islam to gain more influence in towns.

The AfD rejects gender-inclusive language and wants public agencies and public broadcasters not to use it. Official letters should be clear and easy to understand, and dialects should be preserved.

The AfD is against gender-inclusive language. Public offices should not use it. Public broadcasters should not use it either. Letters from offices should be easy to read. Dialects should stay.

The AfD wants to ban headscarves in public institutions. It justifies this with the protection of children and young people and regards the Islamic headscarf as a sign of oppression.

The AfD wants to ban headscarves in public institutions. Schools are one example. The AfD says this protects children and teens. The AfD sees the headscarf as a sign of oppression.

The AfD wants to abolish the EU's climate directives because, in its view, they have sharply raised costs in many areas of life. A state government led by the AfD would work against requirements such as mandatory building renovations and diesel driving bans.

The EU makes rules to protect the climate. The AfD wants to abolish these rules. It says the rules make life more expensive. The AfD believes the climate cannot be protected.

The AfD wants to scrap the national carbon price without replacement, cut the electricity tax to the EU minimum and lift the ban on combustion engines. EU programs such as the Green Deal and Fit for 55 are to be stopped.

The AfD wants to end the German carbon price. The tax on electricity should go down. Cars with combustion engines should stay allowed. The AfD wants to stop EU climate plans like the Green Deal.

The AfD wants to drop the goal of climate neutrality at the national and regional level. Instead, Brandenburg should develop strategies for adapting to climate change. The platform argues that the climate cannot be protected, but that society can be made more resilient.

The AfD wants to drop the goal of climate neutrality. Climate neutrality means a country adds no more greenhouse gases on balance. The AfD says the climate cannot be protected. Brandenburg should instead prepare for changes in the climate.

The AfD rejects further wind and solar installations in the open countryside. Solar panels would in future be allowed only on land that is already sealed, such as parking lots or roofs. Instead of the energy transition, the party wants an energy mix that includes fossil sources such as gas-fired power plants.

The AfD wants no new wind turbines or solar plants in the open countryside. Solar panels should only go on roofs or parking lots. The AfD also wants to keep using gas for energy. It says wind turbines harm the landscape and animals.

The AfD wants to repeal the Gebäudeenergiegesetz (building energy act) without replacement and fend off planned stricter EU rules on building renovation. It considers the law unfair and unconstitutional and points to high costs for owners and renters.

The building energy act sets rules for how homes are heated. The AfD wants to get rid of this law completely. It says the law costs homeowners and renters a lot of money. It also wants to stop stricter EU rules.

The AfD wants to abolish the Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG) and the Building Energy Act (GEG) along with their follow-up rules. It cites high electricity and housing costs and wants citizens to choose their own heating.

The AfD wants to scrap two laws. One supports power from wind and sun. The other sets rules for heating. The AfD says both laws make energy and housing too costly. Everyone should choose their own heating.

The AfD wants to halt the expansion of wind power and photovoltaics entirely and ban wind turbines in forests. Plants and power lines should only be possible with residents' approval through a local referendum.

The AfD wants no new wind turbines and solar parks. It wants to ban wind turbines in forests. Local people should vote on such projects. The AfD says this protects nature.

The AfD wants to end the energy transition in order to bring electricity prices down. In its view, new wind and solar plants and grid expansion drive prices up and push industry to leave.

The AfD wants to end the energy transition. That is the switch to power from wind and sun. The AfD says this makes power more and more costly. Power should be cheaper again for people and firms.

The AfD wants Germany to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement and leave climate protection organizations. In its view the climate cannot be protected, so it favors adaptation over climate protection.

The AfD wants to quit the Paris climate deal. Germany should leave climate groups. The AfD says nobody can protect the climate. People can only adapt to it.

The AfD wants to keep lignite mining in Lusatia and coal-fired power generation and to continue running gas and coal plants. It also backs nuclear energy, wants to set up research on it and to examine small nuclear plants in Brandenburg.

The AfD wants to keep mining lignite and making power from it. Lignite is brown coal. Gas plants should keep running too. The AfD says this secures jobs and power. It also wants research on nuclear power. It wants to look at small nuclear plants in Brandenburg.

The AfD wants to protect plants and animals by building on the existing concepts for protected areas. Nature protection should be graduated, apply across the whole landscape and involve everyone affected. The party rejects large wilderness areas in state-owned forest.

The AfD wants to protect animals and plants in Brandenburg. To do so, it wants to build on today's protected areas. Nature protection should matter everywhere. The AfD does not want large wilderness areas in the state's forest.

The AfD rejects rewetting peatlands on a large scale. Water levels on peat soils should instead be regulated through orderly water retention under the technical supervision of the counties. The platform warns that farmers could lose their land for good.

The AfD does not want to make large peatlands wet again. It says farmers would lose their meadows forever. The counties should control the water levels on peat soils.

The AfD wants to stabilize the landscape's water balance and secure the drinking water supply. To that end, the state water law is to regulate water management comprehensively and uniformly for all of Brandenburg.

The AfD wants to secure water in Brandenburg. One law should set the same rules for the whole state. Drinking water should always come first.

The AfD wants to largely stop the sealing of land and above all protect farmland from being built over. Unused military sites and industrial ruins are to be dismantled so that, on balance, more land is unsealed than sealed.

The AfD wants less ground to be built over. Farmland above all should stay open. The AfD wants to tear down old military sites and ruined factories. In the end there should be more open ground.

The AfD wants to promote species-appropriate housing systems for farm animals and strictly enforce animal welfare laws. It calls for regular inspections, mandatory labeling of how animals are kept, and short trips to the slaughterhouse.

The AfD wants farm animals to live better. Farmers should get money for good housing. Official vets should check farms regularly. Products should show how the animals were kept.

The AfD wants forests to remain in commercial use, including for energy from wood, and is critical of plans to set aside thousands of hectares of state forest as wilderness. Small private forest owners are to get more support.

The AfD wants to keep using the forest. Leftover wood should also be used for heating. The AfD is critical of large wilderness areas in the state's forest. Owners of small forests should get more help.

The AfD wants to create 30 additional project positions for ten years at the state forestry enterprise Landesbetrieb Forst Brandenburg, because more than half its staff will soon retire. More money should also go into forest conversion and high-quality seed and planting stock.

Many foresters in Brandenburg will retire soon. So the AfD wants to create 30 new jobs for ten years. The state should spend more on converting forests. There should also be more good seed for trees.

The AfD wants to actively regulate the wolf population and bring the wolf under hunting law to do so. It points to the sharply grown population and conflicts with grazing livestock. It rejects changes to hunting law that it regards as hostile to hunting.

There are more and more wolves in Brandenburg. The AfD wants hunters to be allowed to hunt wolves. It wants to protect sheep and other grazing animals this way. Otherwise, hunting law should stay as it is.

The AfD gives self-sufficiency based on regionally produced food priority over other goals of farm policy. It wants to keep farm subsidies as long as imports are not held to the same standards, and to direct support toward farms that actually produce food.

The AfD wants more food to come from the region. Germany should need to import less food. Farmers should keep getting money from the state. The money should go to farms that produce food.

The AfD wants farmers to be able to make a living from their traditional forms of operation. They should get more professional leeway and face fewer regulations and paperwork duties. Regional production and marketing should become a large part of economic development funding.

The AfD wants farmers to be able to live from their work. Farmers should have fewer rules. They should decide more for themselves. The state should give more support to selling products from the region.

The AfD wants to regulate the market for farmland so that farmers from the area get priority when buying. It is critical of land purchases by investors from outside agriculture. It announces a law of its own for this purpose.

The AfD wants local farmers to get first chance at buying farmland. It wants to make a law for this. Investors without a farm should find buying harder.

The AfD wants to end the EU's Common Agricultural Policy in the long term and return responsibility to Germany. In the short term, farmers are to be relieved by Germany not interpreting EU rules more strictly than required.

The AfD wants Germany to decide on farming by itself again. Today the EU makes many of the rules. The AfD says this would mean less red tape. First, a study should check how this could work.

The AfD wants to give farmers better legal protection against unfair practices by large retail and processing companies and to promote direct sales. Regional products are to get priority in stores and in public cafeterias.

The AfD wants to protect farmers from big supermarket chains. Farmers should be able to sell their products directly more easily. Supermarkets should not sell foreign asparagus during the local season. Schools should get more food from the region.

The AfD rejects bans and state directives in food policy. Instead, the origin and ingredients of food should be labeled clearly and understandably so that everyone can decide for themselves what to eat.

The AfD wants no bans on food. Everyone should decide for themselves what to eat. Food should clearly show where it comes from. The ingredients should also be easy to read.

The AfD demands that all infrastructure projects in the Structural Strengthening Act for Lusatia be carried out and that the road and rail network be expanded. What it sees as a one-sided focus on climate measures is to end.

The AfD wants more roads and rail lines in Lusatia. All planned building projects should happen. Money should not go only to climate projects.

The AfD wants to align the road network with forecast traffic, widen the A 13 autobahn to six lanes, and draw up long-term transport and road plans. At the same time, truck transit is to move to rail, and the repealed Section 43 of the state road act is to be reinstated.

The AfD wants more and better roads in Brandenburg. The A 13 autobahn should get six lanes. The state should make long-term plans for traffic. Trucks passing through should go by train. A deleted section of the road law should apply again.

The AfD wants to enshrine basic public services as a state objective in Brandenburg's constitution, naming local public transit explicitly. The state is to fund buses and trains adequately and set minimum service standards.

The AfD wants to write buses and trains into the state constitution. The state would then have to provide good local transit. There should be enough money for it. Every part of the state should get a minimum level of service.

The AfD wants to extend the bike path network, especially in towns and tourist regions, and make existing paths more suitable for everyday use. Separate bike paths are to be built along state roads.

The AfD wants to build more bike paths in Brandenburg. This applies above all to towns and vacation regions. State roads should get their own bike paths next to them. The paths should work well for everyday trips.

The AfD rules out driving bans for diesel and gasoline vehicles over exceeded pollution limits. It expects the combustion engine to remain the main form of propulsion on the road for a long time.

The AfD wants no driving bans for diesel and gasoline cars. It doubts the limits and the measurements. The AfD says the combustion engine will stay important for a long time. Many commuters in Brandenburg drive diesel cars.

The AfD wants speed checks to be used only where they serve road safety. It suspects that many checks are mainly meant to bring in revenue for the budget.

Police should only use speed cameras for safety. Speed cameras should not earn money for the state. The AfD believes it is often about money today. Police should have more time for other tasks.

The AfD wants fast internet and gap-free mobile coverage across all of Brandenburg. The platform justifies this with the competitiveness of businesses and the needs of people in rural areas.

The AfD wants fast internet everywhere in Brandenburg. Cell phone coverage should work everywhere too. This should help businesses. It should also help people in the countryside.

The AfD demands that the state do more to secure IT systems and data networks. The aim is to fend off industrial espionage and cyberattacks.

The AfD wants to better protect computer networks in the state. Nobody should be able to steal data. Other countries should not be able to spy on the data either.

The AfD wants to revise data protection law and roll back rules it considers overregulation. In its view, the EU's General Data Protection Regulation mainly burdens small businesses, clubs and private individuals rather than big internet companies.

The AfD wants to change the rules on data protection. It thinks the EU rules are too strict. Small businesses and clubs suffer from them. Private data should still stay protected.

The AfD wants to abolish the Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz (Network Enforcement Act), which requires platforms to delete unlawful content. In the party's view, it restricts freedom of expression. Apart from serious crimes, the internet should not be subject to any state censorship.

There is a law for social networks. It is called the Network Enforcement Act. The AfD wants to get rid of this law. It says the law harms free speech. The state should not censor anything online.

The AfD wants to give the Ministry for Infrastructure and State Planning responsibility for digitalization. At the same time, public administration is to go fully digital so that it becomes more efficient and closer to citizens.

One ministry should take care of digitalization. It should also be allowed to give other ministries instructions on this. Government offices should work fully digitally. Citizens should be able to handle important paperwork from home.

The AfD wants to make police work more attractive and raise pay at least to the level of the Federal Police. After 25 years of shift work, officers should be able to retire at 60 without pension cuts.

The AfD wants to pay police officers in Brandenburg better. They should earn as much as the Federal Police. After 25 years of shift work, they should be able to retire at 60.

The AfD wants to raise the number of police positions statewide to 9,500 and re-establish the police in rural areas. Police equipment and the courts, especially criminal justice, are also to be strengthened.

The AfD wants more police officers in Brandenburg. There should be 9,500 positions. Police should be present in rural areas again. The courts should also be strengthened.

The AfD wants more video surveillance at hotspots and automated license plate and facial recognition at border crossings. This is meant to improve threat prevention, manhunts and criminal prosecution.

The AfD wants more cameras in certain places. At the border, computers should recognize license plates and faces. This should help the police find wanted people.

The AfD wants to allow municipal police forces in order to offset the shortage of police officers in the short to medium term. A pilot project is to start in Frankfurt (Oder).

The AfD wants a police force for cities and counties. Staff from the public order office should get extra training for this. It should start in Frankfurt (Oder). These city police officers should not carry guns.

The AfD wants to eliminate the post of Polizeibeauftragter (police commissioner) in Brandenburg. In its view, the office entrenches permanent mistrust of police officers and is disproportionate.

Brandenburg has a police commissioner. People can complain to this office about police officers. The AfD wants to get rid of it. It says the office shows mistrust of the police.

The AfD wants the nationality and migration background of suspects to be made public. It argues that citizens have a right to know which groups are over- or underrepresented in crime statistics.

The AfD wants authorities to always say which country a suspect comes from. They should also say if the suspect has an immigrant background. The AfD says citizens have a right to know this.

The AfD wants to use the Bundesrat to push for harsher penalties, faster proceedings and easier pretrial detention. Prisoners would have to earn relaxations of their custody, and victims would get more rights.

The AfD wants tougher punishments. People who attack police or rescue workers should be punished more harshly. Criminal trials should be faster. Prisoners should only get privileges if they cooperate. Victims should get a lawyer.

The AfD wants to expand the joint German-Polish police and customs center to include fire services and civil protection. The state is also to inform the public about personal emergency preparedness.

Germany and Poland already work together on police and customs. The AfD wants fire services and civil protection to join in. That way both countries learn about environmental damage sooner. People should also learn how to prepare for emergencies.

The AfD wants to pay firefighters a uniform statewide expense allowance and provide standardized equipment and regular training. Youth fire brigades are to receive more funding and publicity to attract new recruits.

The AfD wants to make serving in the fire department more attractive. Firefighters should get the same allowance across the state. They should get good gear and training. Youth fire brigades should get more support too.

The AfD wants to strengthen direct democracy in Brandenburg by lowering the number of signatures needed for popular initiatives and petitions for a referendum. It argues that no statewide referendum has taken place since the state constitution was adopted.

The AfD wants citizens to vote on more issues. Fewer signatures should be needed for this. Brandenburg has never had a statewide referendum. The AfD wants to change that.

The AfD wants every amendment to the state constitution to be put to a vote of the people. It points out that the constitution is the foundation of the state's order.

The constitution is the most important law in the state. The AfD wants citizens to vote on every change to it. The state parliament should not decide this alone.

The AfD wants to let citizens vote on laws already passed by the state parliament and to amend or reject them. Without that option, the program says, policy can be made against the will of the majority.

The state parliament passes laws. The AfD wants citizens to be able to vote on them afterward. That way they can change or stop a law.

The AfD wants to scrap the rule that a directly elected district administrator (Landrat) needs the votes of at least 15 percent of all eligible voters. If that threshold is missed, the district council decides today, which the AfD says can override the voters' will.

Citizens elect the district administrator directly. Today the winner needs votes from 15 percent of all eligible voters. Otherwise the district council decides. The AfD wants to end this rule.

The AfD wants to dissolve the state's Verfassungsschutz (domestic intelligence agency) unless it can be reformed to focus on what the party sees as its real task. It accuses the other parties of using the agency against the opposition, and against the AfD in particular.

The Verfassungsschutz is a domestic intelligence agency. The AfD wants to close it down in Brandenburg. That applies if it cannot be reformed. The AfD says the agency is used against the opposition.

The AfD wants to make the legal rules on opposition rights so precise that they cannot be circumvented. It complains that it is being denied posts in parliaments and public funds.

The opposition means the parties that do not govern. The AfD wants to define their rights more exactly in law. No one should be able to get around these rights. The AfD says it is denied posts and money.

The AfD wants to end postal voting without a specific reason. It considers it vulnerable to manipulation and says it undermines the equality of the vote because not everyone votes on the same day.

The AfD wants to end postal voting without a reason. It says postal votes are easier to tamper with. People who cannot come on election day should still be able to vote. Mobile polling stations should make that possible.

The AfD wants to cut the number of state lawmakers from 88 to 60 and the number of electoral districts from 44 to 30. It justifies this by comparison with other states, where each lawmaker represents more residents.

The state parliament has 88 seats today. The AfD wants only 60 seats. The number of electoral districts should also go down. The AfD says parliament can still work well.

The AfD calls for significantly more staff in all branches of the judiciary and for courts close to where people live. Access to justice should not fail because of long distances.

The AfD wants more staff for the courts. Courts should be close to where people live. Nobody should give up their rights because the court is too far away.

The AfD wants to create a municipal chamber through which counties and independent cities have a say in state legislation. In the party's view, local politicians know conditions on the ground best.

The AfD wants a new chamber for cities and counties. There they would have a say in state laws. The model is the Bundesrat. In the Bundesrat, the German states have a say in national laws.

The AfD wants to review, renegotiate, and if necessary terminate the interstate treaties with Berlin. The joint state development plan is to be reformed so that municipalities can decide more freely on residential and commercial zones and gain more financial leeway.

Brandenburg has many treaties with Berlin. The AfD says these treaties mostly help Berlin. It wants to check them and negotiate new ones. Towns should decide more for themselves about building land. They should also get more money.

The AfD wants to amend the municipal charges act so that affected residents can jointly bring test-case lawsuits against charge notices. This is meant to make court review easier while reducing the number of proceedings.

Residents sometimes get bills for high road charges. Many cannot afford to sue alone. The AfD wants people to be able to sue together. One ruling then serves as a model for all.

The AfD wants to cut state money for associations and initiatives that work against right-wing extremism or for gender, diversity and migration, and to end all climate-related measures. It justifies this with the state's duty of neutrality and the need for funds for other tasks.

The AfD wants to stop giving state money to certain associations. This affects projects against the right, and on gender, diversity and migration. Money for climate measures should also be dropped. The money should go to schools, roads and families.

The AfD wants to improve relations with East-Central European countries such as Poland and Hungary and not dictate how many migrants they must take in. Instead, a state government led by the AfD would press the federal government and the EU for effective border protection.

The AfD wants better relations with countries like Poland and Hungary. These countries should decide for themselves how many migrants they accept. The AfD wants more protection at the borders. It wants to push the federal government and the EU for this.

The AfD wants Germany to stop sending weapons into the war zone in Ukraine and to push immediately for a diplomatic solution. It sees it as being in Brandenburg's interest to trade with Russia again without obstacles.

The AfD wants no German weapons for the war in Ukraine. Germany should negotiate instead. Brandenburg should be able to trade with Russia again. The AfD says the sanctions hurt Brandenburg in particular.

The AfD wants development aid to follow German and Brandenburg interests. Only countries that take back migrants who are required to leave would receive money, and the German economy should benefit from the payments.

The AfD wants to attach conditions to development aid. A country should take back its citizens who must leave Germany. Only then does it get money. German companies should also gain from the money.

The AfD wants to end the embargo on Russian gas and oil. This is meant to let the PCK Schwedt refinery keep operating under its previous business model.

Germany no longer buys oil and gas from Russia. The AfD wants to end this ban. The refinery in Schwedt should work as it did before. A refinery turns crude oil into gasoline and diesel.

The AfD rejects the mandatory broadcasting fee and wants to amend the interstate broadcasting treaty so that only users pay. Public broadcasting would shrink and be limited to information and regional coverage, as the AfD accuses it of bias, waste and breaches of the law.

Today every household pays the broadcasting fee. The AfD wants only viewers to pay. Public broadcasting should become smaller. It should mainly inform and report on the region.

The AfD wants to fund monument protection according to need while easing the rules for old buildings of no public interest so they can be lived in. It also supports rebuilding lost historic structures.

The AfD wants to give more money for old buildings. For some old houses the rules should be looser. Then people can rebuild them and live there. The AfD wants to rebuild lost historic buildings.

The AfD wants to preserve Brandenburg's customs and the culture of the Sorbs and Wends and give more support to heritage clubs. Historic names of streets and squares should stay, and historic cultural assets should be digitized.

The AfD wants to keep old customs in Brandenburg. These include folk dress, songs and folk festivals. The culture of the Sorbs and Wends should stay too. Clubs for customs should get more help. Old street names should stay.

The AfD wants to abolish the Schatzregal (treasure trove rule), under which hidden ownerless finds belong to the state. Because finders get no reward, the party says finds often go unreported.

Anyone who finds old treasure in Brandenburg must give it to the state. This rule is called Schatzregal. The finder gets no reward. The AfD wants to end the rule. Then more finders will report what they find, the AfD says.

The AfD wants permanent jobs to be the norm for music school teachers with a university degree and wants to fund music schools, young orchestra musicians and the visual arts. Strongly political cultural institutions should no longer receive tax money.

Teachers at public music schools should get permanent jobs. The AfD wants to fund music and art. Cultural groups with a strong political leaning should get no tax money. Parties should have less say over culture.

The AfD wants to commemorate war victims, preserve the World War I memorials and pay for the search for unburied war dead. They are to receive a dignified burial.

The AfD wants to remember those who died in wars. Old war memorials should stay. Many dead soldiers still lie on old battlefields. The AfD wants to pay to find them. They should get a proper grave.