AfD: program for the 2025 federal election

The AfD wants to keep state intervention in the market to a minimum and remove rules for businesses. Among other things, the supply chain law, the packaging law and the ban on combustion engines would go. The party argues that this bureaucracy distorts competition.

The AfD wants fewer rules for companies. The supply chain law should end. This law makes companies check on their suppliers. The packaging law should end too. Cars with gas and diesel engines should stay allowed.

The AfD wants to expand international trade and remove barriers. It wants trade deals that secure raw material supplies, an end to sanctions it considers harmful to the economy, and repeal of the carbon border adjustment.

The AfD wants more trade with other countries. Barriers to trade should go. New deals should secure raw materials for Germany. Sanctions should end if they hurt the economy. Sanctions are penalties against other countries.

The AfD wants German companies to have open access to foreign markets, raw materials and trade routes. It rejects the Lieferkettengesetz (supply chain law), wants to expand trade with China and, at the same time, better protect German companies from foreign takeovers.

The AfD wants German companies to trade freely everywhere. It is against the supply chain law. That law makes companies watch human rights at their suppliers. Trade with China should grow. Important German companies should not be sold to foreigners.

The AfD rejects government subsidies for particular technologies and wants the market to decide what prevails. The exception is technologies that serve strategic independence, which the state should fund directly. The platform calls support for the semiconductor industry wasted tax money.

The AfD wants no tax money for single technologies. The market should decide which technology wins. There is one exception. Some technologies make Germany independent. The state should pay for those directly.

The AfD wants an “activating basic income support” to move recipients of Bürgergeld (citizen's income) who can work into jobs. People who work should always be clearly better off than those on benefits. Skilled workers are to be kept in the country, and retirees encouraged to keep working through a tax allowance.

The AfD wants more people to work. People on Bürgergeld who can work should go back to work. Bürgergeld is a basic welfare payment. People who work should have clearly more money. Retirees should pay less tax if they keep working.

The AfD wants to tighten access to unemployment benefits for new workers: entitlement would arise only after three years of contributions and initially last six months. Those who caused their own unemployment are to receive no benefit.

The AfD wants new rules for unemployment pay. People who start their first job from 2026 must pay in for three years first. Then they get money for six months at first. People who caused their own job loss get nothing.

The AfD wants to overhaul Bürgergeld (citizen's income) under its own concept and get recipients who are able to work back into jobs quickly. In the platform's view, the benefit rates mean work no longer pays for many. Recipients of old-age basic support are no longer to be worse off regarding protected assets and car ownership.

The AfD wants to change Bürgergeld. Bürgergeld is basic income support. The new model is called activating basic income support. People without work should go back to work quickly. The AfD says the benefit is too high and work often does not pay. Poor retirees should get the same rules for savings and cars.

The AfD wants to keep specialized Förderschulen (special-needs schools) and better reward relatives who care for disabled people at home. People working in sheltered workshops are to receive the minimum wage. The platform names a life as self-determined as possible as the overarching goal.

The AfD wants to keep special schools. These are schools for children with disabilities. Relatives should get more money for care at home. People in sheltered workshops should get the minimum wage. There should be less red tape.

The AfD wants to fundamentally restructure Bürgergeld (citizen's income). Recipients who are able to work and still draw benefits after half a year would have to do community service. The platform says this would get people back into jobs faster and lower costs for taxpayers.

The AfD wants to change Bürgergeld. That is a basic welfare payment. Some people get it for more than 6 months. If they can work, they should do community work. The AfD says this helps people find jobs faster.

The AfD wants social insurance benefits that are not backed by contributions to be paid from the federal budget. In the platform's view, contributions are currently being misused. This is meant to allow higher benefits or lower contribution rates.

Some social insurance benefits have nothing to do with what people paid in. The AfD wants taxes to pay for these benefits. Then more money stays in the insurance funds. Pensions can go up or contributions can go down.

The AfD wants to raise pensions substantially and gradually reach the Western European average of just over 70 percent of final net income. To do so, more people are to pay into the pension fund, including politicians and most public employees. Retirement is to become more flexible.

The AfD wants higher pensions. The goal is about 70 percent of a person's last net pay. Politicians should also pay into the pension fund. Fewer public workers should become civil servants. After 45 years of work, people should be able to retire with no cuts.

The AfD wants tax incentives for private and workplace retirement savings in stocks, ETFs and funds, replacing the current subsidy schemes. In addition, the state is to open a retirement account for every newborn child with German citizenship and pay into it until age 18.

The AfD wants to support saving for old age with stocks. Savers should get tax benefits. Every newborn German child should get a savings account. The state pays in 100 euros each month for 18 years. The money is paid out only from age 65.

The AfD wants tax relief for citizens and businesses. The basic tax-free allowance would rise sharply, corporate taxes would fall, and the solidarity surcharge would end for everyone. The aim is higher take-home pay and more financial leeway.

The AfD wants lower taxes. More of a person's income should be tax-free. Companies should pay less tax. The solidarity surcharge should end for everyone. People who save privately for old age should get bigger tax breaks.

The AfD wants to keep the Schuldenbremse (the constitutional debt brake) unchanged and balance the federal budget through savings. In its view, Germany has a spending problem, not a revenue problem. It wants cuts to climate spending, projects abroad, EU contributions, grants to NGOs and the government's public relations work, among other things.

The debt brake limits new government debt. The AfD does not want to loosen it. Instead, the government should spend less money. For example, the AfD wants to pay less to the EU. There should also be less money for climate protection and projects abroad.

The AfD wants to greatly simplify tax law by introducing an income tax schedule with only a few brackets. Tax rates would fall, and in return write-off options for tax-saving schemes would be reduced. Businesses would be taxed the same regardless of their legal form.

The AfD thinks German tax law is too complicated. It wants to make it simpler. Income tax should have only a few brackets. Tax rates should go down. In return, there should be fewer ways to save on taxes.

The AfD wants a uniform value-added tax rate of 7 percent for restaurants and bars again. It argues that the return to 19 percent at the start of 2024 pushed prices up and forced restaurants to close.

The AfD wants to lower the sales tax in restaurants. It should be only 7 percent. Today it is 19 percent. The AfD says eating out has become too expensive. Many restaurants had to close because of this.

The AfD wants to raise the basic income tax allowance to €15,000 and tie allowances to an index. This is meant to relieve low earners and the middle class and keep a gap between wages and welfare benefits.

The AfD wants to raise the basic tax-free allowance. That is the part of your income you pay no tax on. It should be €15,000 a year. It should rise with prices automatically in the future. The AfD says work should pay off more.

The AfD wants to scrap the Grundsteuer (property tax) entirely. Cities and towns would be compensated through surcharges on income tax and corporate tax. The platform calls the property tax complicated, costly to administer, and unfair.

The AfD wants to end the property tax. This is a tax on land and buildings. Towns get this money today. They would get a share of other taxes instead. The AfD says renters would also pay less.

The AfD wants to scrap the inheritance tax and permanently abolish the wealth tax, which is currently not collected. In its view, both taxes hit assets that were already taxed once and bring in little revenue for a lot of effort.

The AfD wants to end two taxes. One is the tax on inheritances. The other is the tax on wealth. The state does not collect that one right now. The AfD says this money was already taxed once.

The AfD wants to raise the tax-free amount for investment income from €1,000 for single people to €6,672 and tie it to the mini-job earnings limit. This is meant to help the middle class in particular build wealth and private retirement savings.

The AfD wants to raise the savers' allowance. Up to this amount, interest and investment gains are tax-free. Today it is €1,000 a year. The AfD wants €6,672. This should make it easier to save for old age.

The AfD wants the Bundesbank to move all gold reserves held abroad to Germany and demands a special balance-sheet status for the gold, secured in the constitution. In the long run, it aims for currency competition or a gold-backed currency.

Germany owns a lot of gold. Part of it is stored in other countries. The AfD wants to bring all of it to Germany. The gold should get special protection. Later, gold should back the value of money.

The AfD wants the Bundesbank's Target-2 claims in the eurozone payment system to be reduced first and later settled daily. Until then, they should be backed by collateral. The party sees the balances as a risk worth billions for German taxpayers.

Target-2 is a payment system of the euro countries. Germany's central bank has large open claims there. The AfD sees a risk for taxpayers. The claims should shrink. Later, countries should settle them every day.

The AfD wants to secure cash permanently as legal tender and write its use into the Grundgesetz (Basic Law) as a civil liberty. It justifies this with protection against surveillance, negative interest rates and expropriation. Public authorities should not be allowed to refuse cash payments.

The AfD wants to protect cash. This should be written into the constitution. Everyone should always be able to pay with bills and coins. Government offices should have to accept cash too. The AfD says that without cash, the state can see all payments.

The AfD wants to largely free Bitcoin, its wallets and its trading venues from regulation. Current tax rules for Bitcoin and the right to hold coins oneself should stay in place. The party sees Bitcoin as state-free money in a competition among currencies.

Bitcoin is digital money without a state behind it. The AfD likes that. It wants far fewer rules for Bitcoin. The tax rules for Bitcoin should stay as they are. Everyone should be allowed to store their own Bitcoins.

The AfD wants to introduce family income splitting, raise the child tax allowance and cut VAT on children's goods to 7 percent. It adds a loan for young married couples and easier terms for students with a child. The relief is aimed mainly at middle-income families.

Families should pay less tax. Things for children should carry only 7 percent sales tax. Young couples should get a loan for their first household items. With each child they pay back less. Students with a child should get help too.

The AfD wants to make building and housing cheaper by abolishing the property tax, the real estate transfer tax for owner-occupiers and the broadcasting fee. The Building Energy Act, the carbon charge and the renewable energy surcharge would also go. The aim is for more people to afford their own home.

The AfD wants to make housing cheaper. Several taxes would be dropped. One example is the property tax. The broadcasting fee would also go. The AfD wants to scrap the heating law. Buyers from outside the EU would pay more tax.

The AfD wants to turn more renters into owners. Barriers to converting rental units into owner-occupied ones would be removed, and tenants could buy homes from public housing companies at a discount. The party says ownership protects against poverty in old age and rising rents.

The AfD wants more people to own their home. Renters would get help when they buy. They could buy homes from public companies at a lower price. Local people would come first for land and housing.

The AfD considers social housing construction a failure and wants to support low-income renters more through Wohngeld (housing benefit) instead. It rejects the rent brake and rent caps as overregulation and a barrier to investment.

The AfD wants to build less social housing. People with little money would get more housing benefit instead. Housing benefit is money from the state for rent. The AfD is against the rent brake. That is a rule that limits rent increases.

The AfD wants to allocate as few apartments as possible to asylum seekers and recognized asylum holders in areas with housing shortages, in order to ease the shortage especially for young families. Certain troubled neighborhoods would receive no further asylum seekers at all.

Some areas have too few apartments. Asylum seekers should get almost no apartments there. This is meant to help young families. No more asylum seekers should move to certain troubled neighborhoods. The AfD rejects special building rules for shelters.

The AfD opposes writing separate children's rights into the Basic Law, Germany's constitution. It argues that children already hold all fundamental rights and that such a clause would let the state override parents' right to raise their children.

The AfD does not want special children's rights in the constitution. It says children already have all basic rights. It fears the state would interfere more in how parents raise children. Parents should decide on raising their children.

The AfD wants to refund parents €20,000 in pension contributions for every newborn child, or exempt them from future contributions of that amount. Their later pension would not be reduced. The platform justifies this as a fairer sharing of the burdens families carry.

Parents should get back 20,000 euros in pension payments for each child. Or they pay that much less later. Their pension should stay the same. The AfD says families carry many costs. This should make up for that.

The AfD wants to pay a caregiving salary to parents or grandparents who look after a child themselves during its first three years. It would be based on prior net pay and is meant to give families a free choice between care at home and care in a facility.

Parents should get money when they care for their small child themselves. This applies until the child turns three. Grandparents can get the money too. It should be about as high as the earlier wage. That way parents can choose freely.

The AfD wants to write a child-friendly society into the constitution as a state goal and aims for higher birth numbers. It speaks of a demographic turnaround that, in its view, stabilizes the social systems and secures the passing on of culture.

The AfD wants more children to be born in Germany. The constitution should say that society should be child-friendly. Campaigns should encourage couples to have children. The AfD says this also helps the social insurance funds.

The AfD wants to leave sections 218 ff. of the Criminal Code unchanged but apply them more strictly. Mandatory counseling should serve to protect unborn life, and pregnant women would be shown ultrasound images during it. Doctors should not be allowed to advertise abortions.

The AfD does not want to change the abortion law. But it wants to apply it more strictly. In counseling, women should see ultrasound pictures of the child. Doctors should not advertise abortions. Pregnant women and mothers should get more help.

The AfD wants to enforce German as the binding language in daycare centers and staff nurseries and daycare with enough qualified personnel. Content such as gender mainstreaming and diversity-oriented sex education, which it regards as indoctrination, is to be removed from childcare and from the training of childcare workers.

Everyone in daycare should have to speak German. This should help children from immigrant families. Daycare centers should have enough well-trained staff. Topics like gender should not come up there. Company kindergartens should get more support.

The AfD wants children to live alternately with their mother and father as a rule after a separation. Child support would depend on how much time each parent spends caring for the child. In the platform's view, current custody and support law hardens conflicts between parents.

Some parents split up. The AfD wants the children to live with the mother and the father in turns. A parent who cares for the child more should pay less child support. Before going to court, parents must first talk with a mediator. A mediator helps people settle a dispute.

The AfD wants the same nationwide standards for when youth welfare offices may remove children from their families. This should happen only if the child would suffer greater harm by staying. The platform points to wrong decisions and large differences between states and municipalities.

Sometimes the youth welfare office takes children out of their family. The AfD wants the same rules for this all over Germany. The office should do it only if the child would be worse off at home. The children should go to relatives if possible, for example to grandparents.

The AfD wants an education system that is politically neutral and built on performance. Schools should also teach practical knowledge about the economy, social insurance and investing. Universities should attract top talent and make Germany a leader in innovation.

The AfD wants schools that focus on performance. Schools should be politically neutral. Children should also learn about money and the economy there. Universities should attract the best people. This should lead to new ideas in Germany.

The AfD wants to preserve the tiered school system with its different school types and raise requirements at all schools. In the platform's view, apprentices and first-year students lack basic knowledge despite better grades. A preschool year is meant to prepare children who are behind for regular lessons.

Germany has different types of schools. The AfD wants to keep it that way. Schools should ask more of students. Classes should get smaller. There should be a preschool for children who still need help before school starts.

The AfD wants to relax compulsory school attendance and replace it with a duty to be educated. It argues that the state no longer adequately secures children's right to education. Students' well-being is to be the guiding concern.

Today all children must go to a school. The AfD wants to relax this rule. Children would still have to learn, but not always in a school. The AfD says the state no longer does enough for education.

The AfD wants to keep special-needs schools (Förderschulen) and make them the usual place of learning again for children with special educational needs. According to the platform, inclusion should proceed only with a sense of proportion. It says special schools offer support that regular schools cannot provide.

Special schools are for children who need extra help. The AfD wants to keep these schools. Children with special needs should usually go there. The AfD says they get more help there than in other schools.

The AfD demands that teachers stay politically neutral and that schools be free of political advocacy. Students should form their own political views and be able to voice them without fear of disadvantages.

The AfD wants teachers not to recommend any party at school. They should also not call on students to join protests. Students should be able to say what they think. No one should treat them badly for it.

The AfD wants schools to have modern IT but to use digital tools only where they make sense and ease the workload. The primary school years should largely do without digital devices because that is where reading, writing and arithmetic are learned.

Schools should have good computers. But the AfD does not want tablets everywhere in class. In the first four school years, children should learn mostly without digital devices. That is when they learn to read, write and do math. Online classes should be avoided if possible.

The AfD wants to raise the standing of vocational education and strengthen vocational schools. In its view, the drive for ever higher shares of students earning the Abitur (university entrance diploma) endangers the supply of trainees in skilled trades.

The AfD wants to strengthen job training. Vocational schools should matter more. The party says too many young people aim for university. So companies cannot find enough trainees.

The AfD rejects Islamic religious instruction in schools and wants no faith-based exemptions for Muslim students. Children with a migration background should first take mandatory German classes until they can follow regular lessons. The party says this is how it wants to prevent parallel societies.

The AfD wants no Islamic classes in schools. Muslim students should get no exceptions. For example, they should take part in swimming lessons. Children with weak German should learn German first.

The AfD considers the Bologna reform a failure and wants to bring back the earlier Diplom and Magister degrees. In its view, the Europe-wide alignment of degree programs has made university studies too school-like and curtailed academic freedom.

The AfD wants the old Diplom and Magister degrees back. Today most students earn a bachelor's or master's degree. The party says university has become too much like school. It wants to change that.

The AfD wants to give universities more guaranteed core funding so that they depend less on external grants. Research and teaching should remain independent of political, economic and financial interests.

The AfD wants to give universities more fixed money. Then researchers need to seek less outside money. They have more time for research and teaching. Universities should be allowed to pick their own students.

The AfD wants to prevent further contribution increases in health and long-term care insurance. The federal government is to pay in full for the coverage of Bürgergeld (citizen's income) recipients. In addition, the two insurance branches are to be merged and administrative costs cut.

The AfD wants to stop health and care insurance from getting more expensive. The state should pay the full insurance for people on Bürgergeld from taxes. Bürgergeld is basic income support. Health and care insurance should become one insurance. The administration should cost less.

The AfD wants to completely abolish per-case flat rates in hospitals and return to individually negotiated budgets. Budget caps on doctors' offices would end; the platform says these caps cause appointment shortages and long waits.

Hospitals today get a fixed sum for each case. The AfD wants to end these flat rates. Each hospital should negotiate its own budget. Doctors in offices should be paid for all treatments. The AfD says patients will then get appointments faster.

The AfD wants to pay considerably more for care provided by relatives at home so that more families can afford it. For professional nursing it calls for uniform nationwide staffing rules set by law. It rejects nursing chambers.

Many people care for relatives at home. The AfD wants to give them much more money for this. A law should say how many nurses hospitals need. It should be the same all over Germany. The AfD does not want nursing chambers.

The AfD wants a review of the COVID measures at every level, starting with a committee of inquiry in the Bundestag. In the platform's view, the measures harmed many people's health, social lives and finances.

The AfD wants to review the COVID rules. The Bundestag should set up a committee of inquiry. That is a group of lawmakers that investigates events. The AfD says the rules harmed many people. Those responsible should answer for it.

The AfD demands a fundamental reform of how the World Health Organization is funded in order to end the influence of private donors. If that fails, Germany should withdraw. It rejects the pandemic treaty and the amended International Health Regulations.

The WHO is the World Health Organization. The AfD wants member countries to pay for most of it. Private donors should have no influence. If that does not work, Germany should leave. The AfD is also against the pandemic treaty.

The AfD wants to immediately roll back the legalization of cannabis outside medical use. It points to physical and mental harm, especially to the still-developing brains of young people.

Since 2024, cannabis has been partly legal for adults. The AfD wants to change that back. Cannabis should only be allowed as medicine. The AfD says cannabis harms health, especially for young people. It also wants more help for people with addiction.

The AfD rejects every vaccine mandate and wants to scrap the measles vaccination requirement for children and teaching staff. It cites the right to self-determination and the constitutional right to physical integrity. People with vaccine injuries would get better care.

The AfD is against any duty to get vaccinated. Each person should decide about vaccines for themselves. The measles vaccine rule for children and teachers should end. People without vaccines should not be treated worse. People with vaccine injuries should get more help.

The AfD rejects a central database that stores confidential patient data and links hospitals, practices and pharmacies. Instead, an emergency data set would be kept on the health insurance card. The platform argues that this data needs a very high level of protection.

The AfD does not want one big database for patient data. It says this data needs strong protection. Key data for emergencies should be on the insurance card. This includes a list of medicines.

Medical staff from abroad would have to fully meet German standards in both skills and language, with language at level C1. The AfD also wants more university places in medicine and dentistry, with German citizens given priority.

Doctors and nurses from abroad should speak very good German. Their skills should match German standards. The AfD wants more places to study medicine. German applicants should get these places first.

The AfD wants foreign nationals to receive Bürgergeld (citizen's income) only after at least ten years of regular employment in Germany, and then for no more than one year. Refugees from Ukraine would again receive benefits at the level of asylum seekers.

The AfD wants to limit Bürgergeld for foreigners. They should first have worked in Germany for 10 years. Then they should get it for 1 year at most. Refugees from Ukraine should no longer get Bürgergeld. They should get the same as asylum seekers.

The AfD wants Germany to stop taking part in the EU's common asylum policy, following Denmark's example. It considers the Common European Asylum System a failure. Decisions on immigration would be made at the national level alone.

The EU has shared rules for asylum. The AfD no longer wants to take part in them. Denmark already does it this way. Germany alone would decide who may come.

The AfD wants to control Germany's national borders again and turn back people without permission to enter. The Federal Police would serve as the border authority. In the platform's view, controls and refusals of entry are a self-evident right of sovereign states.

The AfD wants to control Germany's borders again. The Federal Police would do this job. People who are not allowed in would have to turn back at the border. Commuters, tourists, and goods would still cross the border.

The AfD wants to replace the individual constitutional right to asylum with an institutional guarantee or an ordinary statute. It also wants to withdraw from the UN migration compact and the UN refugee compact and to initiate reforms of the Geneva Refugee Convention and the European Convention on Human Rights.

Today every persecuted person has their own right to asylum. The AfD wants to change that. Asylum would no longer be a personal basic right. The AfD also wants to quit two United Nations agreements. It wants to change other international treaties.

The AfD wants asylum and protection applications to be filed and decided abroad in the future. It adds stricter requirements for applications, protection status, family reunification, and work. According to the platform, Germany has carried the heaviest burden of unauthorized immigration to Europe since 2015.

The AfD wants asylum claims to be checked outside Germany. Only people who prove who they are could apply. People who give false information would get no asylum. Stricter rules would also apply to family reunification and work.

The AfD rejects blanket quotas and distribution keys for immigrants at every level. The voluntary admission programs for Afghanistan and funding for civilian sea rescue in the Mediterranean would end.

The AfD wants no fixed numbers for taking in immigrants. It wants to stop the admission programs for Afghanistan. Private rescuers in the Mediterranean would get no more state money. Rescued people would be taken to North Africa.

The AfD wants asylum seekers to stay in central reception facilities for the entire duration of their case. Court proceedings on asylum are to be sped up, and additional staff is to work through the backlog.

The AfD wants faster asylum cases. Asylum seekers should live in central facilities during that time. The courts should get more staff. This should clear old cases faster.

The AfD wants to reduce benefits for asylum seekers, which it considers too high by international comparison and an incentive to come to Germany. Benefits in kind are to take priority, with a payment card as the fallback. Recognized asylum seekers would also no longer get immediate access to all social benefits.

The AfD says asylum seekers get too much money. It believes this draws people to Germany. They should get goods instead of cash. Otherwise they get a payment card. Recognized refugees should not get all benefits right away either.

The AfD wants to deport everyone who is required to leave the country and to scrap all rules that allow them to stay. In the platform's view, Duldung (temporary suspension of deportation) and new residence rights undermine the obligation to leave. Church asylum is also to be abolished.

The AfD wants to deport more people. This applies to everyone who must leave Germany. Special rules for staying should end. Church asylum should end too. That is when churches shelter people from deportation.

The AfD wants to return Syrians who, in its view, are no longer entitled to protection to their home country. It cites a 2024 ruling by the Higher Administrative Court in Münster and the fall of the Assad regime. The same approach is later to apply to other countries of origin.

The AfD wants to send many Syrians back to Syria. It says civilians there no longer face danger from civil war. Protection for many Syrians should therefore end. The state should also promote voluntary return.

The AfD demands that all migrants actively contribute to their own integration, above all through German skills at the B2 level and acceptance of the legal order. The country's capacity to integrate newcomers is to be restored by sharply limiting immigration.

The AfD wants migrants to do much for their own integration. They should learn German well, usually within 2 years. They should accept the rules in Germany. Anyone who drops a course should pay back the cost. Fewer new people should come to the country.

The AfD wants to go back to the citizenship law that applied until 1990. A person would then become German by descent from at least one German parent or through a discretionary decision by the authorities. The legal entitlement to naturalization and citizenship by birth in Germany would be abolished.

The AfD wants to make naturalization much harder. Children of foreigners should no longer become German by being born in Germany. Nobody should have a right to naturalization. The authorities should decide each case one by one. Naturalization should be possible after 10 years at the earliest.

The AfD wants to draw on domestic workers and bring back Germans who emigrated before admitting more skilled workers from outside Europe. After that, non-European workers would be selected according to need and strict criteria through a points system.

The AfD wants to find workers inside Germany first. German experts living abroad should come back. Only then should experts from outside Europe come. They would go through a points system. People with enough points may come.

The AfD wants to counter any further spread of Islam. Its measures include banning foreign funding of mosques, banning minarets and the call to prayer, requirements for imams, and abolishing university chairs in Islamic theology.

The AfD does not want Islam to spread further in Germany. Other countries should not be allowed to pay for mosques in Germany. Minarets and the call to prayer should be banned. A minaret is the tower of a mosque. Imams should speak German well.

The AfD wants to ban the burqa and niqab in public, pointing to countries such as France and Austria. In public institutions, especially schools, the headscarf is also to be prohibited.

The AfD wants to ban the burqa and niqab in public. These are clothes that cover the face. In schools and public offices, the headscarf should be banned too. Other countries in Europe already have such rules.

The AfD wants to repeal laws that mandate gender quotas and rejects anti-discrimination laws in civil law. It bases this on equality before the law and on the freedom to choose one's own contracting partners.

The AfD wants to end laws with quotas for women and men. It also opposes laws against discrimination between private people. Everyone should decide for themselves who they make a contract with. The AfD says only the state must treat everyone equally.

The AfD wants to repeal the Selbstbestimmungsgesetz (Self-Determination Act) entirely and holds that there are two biological sexes. Gender-transition treatment would be possible only from age 18, and puberty blockers for that purpose would be banned.

The AfD wants to scrap the Self-Determination Act. This law makes it easy to change one's legal gender entry. The AfD says there are only two sexes. Treatment to change gender should start only at 18. It wants to ban puberty blockers for this.

The AfD wants to cut off funding for gender studies, which it considers unscientific, and abolish equal opportunity officers. Hiring should depend only on professional qualification. The party sees a growing influence of "woke" ideology at universities and wants to end it.

The AfD wants to stop paying for gender studies. That is research on gender roles. The party says it is not real science. Equal opportunity officers should no longer exist. For jobs, only professional skill should count.

The AfD wants to immediately stop large wind and solar installations in forests and on farmland. To do so, the Federal Building Code and the Regional Planning Act would be returned to their pre-2021 state. The party cites protection of the landscape and rural communities.

The AfD does not want big wind and solar parks in nature. Building laws should go back to how they were before 2021. The AfD says these plants ruin the landscape. Buses and trains in rural areas should get better.

The AfD wants energy policy based on market principles and openness to all technologies. Renewable energy installations would have to operate without subsidies and without priority access to the grid. The platform blames current climate policy for high electricity prices and companies leaving the country.

The AfD wants to change energy policy. Wind and solar plants would get no more state money. Their power would no longer go into the grid first. The AfD says climate policy makes power expensive.

The AfD wants to stop the coal phase-out, expand coal plants, and return to nuclear energy. It also wants the intact Nord Stream 2 pipeline put into operation. The platform argues this will ensure secure and affordable electricity.

The AfD wants to keep making power from coal. It also wants to use nuclear plants again. Gas should come through the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. The AfD says this keeps power safe and cheap.

The AfD wants to scrap all CO₂ levies with nothing put in their place. It argues that they raise production costs, put German industry at a competitive disadvantage, and burden rural regions and farmers.

The AfD wants to end all charges on CO₂. CO₂ is a gas that comes from burning oil, gas, and coal. The AfD says these charges make production more expensive. It says this hurts industry and farmers.

The AfD rejects climate protection policy and any taxes based on it and wants to withdraw from the Paris Agreement. It considers the human share in climate change scientifically unresolved and therefore sees no reason to restrict coal, natural gas and oil. It also rejects the EU's Green Deal.

The AfD wants no climate protection policy. It also wants no taxes for climate protection. Germany should leave the Paris climate agreement. The AfD says humans cannot protect the climate. Coal, gas and oil should stay allowed.

The AfD rejects any further expansion of wind energy and wants no new solar installations on farmland. It justifies this with dangers to animals, plants, the landscape and human health, and with the amount of land used.

The AfD wants no new wind turbines. It says wind turbines kill birds, bats and insects. It says they also harm people and the landscape. There should be no new solar panels on farm fields. The AfD says they take up too much land.

The AfD wants to build new nuclear power plants and nuclear research centers in Germany. The aim is for Germany to regain a leading position in nuclear technology. The platform justifies this with energy security, prosperity and environmental protection.

The AfD wants to build new nuclear power plants. It also wants new centers for nuclear research. Germany should lead in this technology again. The party says this secures energy and prosperity.

The AfD commits to keeping livestock farming in Germany and wants to promote animal-appropriate housing systems. Animal transports are to last no more than six hours, and regional slaughterhouses are to be kept. Slaughter according to religious rites is to be allowed only with sufficient stunning.

The AfD wants to protect animals better. Animals should spend six hours at most in a transport. Local slaughterhouses should stay. Some religions have special rules for slaughter. This should only be allowed if the animal is stunned first.

The AfD wants to limit the wolf population by number and area and to designate wolf-free zones. It regards hunting as a form of nature conservation and holds to the principle of "forest with game." It also wants stronger action against introduced species.

The AfD wants to limit the number of wolves. Some areas should have no wolves at all. The party supports hunting. Foreign animals and plants should spread less.

The AfD wants forests to be managed professionally and sustainably and wants to promote wood as a building material and energy source. It rejects setting aside more forest land and clearing forest for wind turbines. Documentation requirements in forestry are to be reduced.

The AfD wants experts to care for and use the forest. Wood should be promoted for building and for heating. No more forest land should be taken out of use. No forest should be cut down for wind turbines.

The AfD wants water, waterworks, and pipelines to remain public property and rejects privatizing or liberalizing the water market. Germany and its federal states, rather than the EU, should be responsible for protecting bodies of water.

The AfD wants water to belong to the state and the towns. Private companies should not be able to buy the waterworks. Germany and its states should set the rules for protecting rivers and lakes, not the EU. There should be no new charges for taking water.

The AfD wants to review the rules on genetic engineering and create what it sees as a more pragmatic legal framework. It rejects blanket bans on substances, such as the PFAS group of chemicals, and instead calls for a risk assessment of each individual substance.

The AfD wants looser rules for genetic engineering. It wants to review the German law on it. The party also opposes bans on whole groups of substances. Experts should check each substance on its own.

The AfD rejects the EU's Common Agricultural Policy and wants farm policy decided in Germany. Farmers are to get more entrepreneurial freedom, and rules and paperwork are to be reduced step by step. The platform justifies this with the independence of farms and secure pay for farmers.

The EU makes many rules for farming. The AfD rejects this shared farm policy. Germany should decide for itself. Farmers should be freer to run their farms. There should be fewer rules.

The AfD wants farm subsidies geared to family farms and cooperatives and wants to make handing over a farm easier. Young farmers and people starting a farm are to be better off. Investors from outside agriculture are to find it harder to acquire farmland.

The AfD wants to strengthen family farms. Young farmers should get better conditions. People who start a new farm should pay less tax. Outside investors should find it harder to buy farmland.

The AfD wants consumers to learn more about the origin, contents and quality of products and calls for clear labeling. It rejects special taxes on particular foods such as meat or sugar, arguing that citizens should not be told how to consume. The EU approval of insects in food is to be reversed.

The AfD wants clear information on products. Shoppers should know what is inside. There should be no special tax on meat or sugar. Insects in food must be shown clearly on the package. The AfD wants to stop insects in food altogether.

The AfD wants to change current fertilizer rules so that farmers can again fertilize crops according to need. In the platform's view, today's rules reduce yields and harm the soil. The party supports research into new genomic techniques, but the use of genetic engineering in the field is to be strictly controlled.

Today there are strict rules for fertilizing fields. The AfD wants to loosen these rules. Farmers should give plants as much fertilizer as they need. The AfD supports research into new gene techniques. But on the field, the state should check gene technology strictly.

The AfD rejects additional restrictions on commercial fishers and anglers that it regards as ideologically motivated. Small fishing businesses should be able to survive economically. Catch limits are to be set pragmatically.

The AfD does not want new strict rules for fishers. Anglers should not get stricter rules either. Small fishing businesses should not go broke. Fish stocks should still last for the long term.

The AfD wants to modernize transport routes and digital networks. Roads, railways and bridges would be repaired on a steady basis, and new projects would move faster through simpler procedures.

The AfD wants to repair roads, railways and bridges. This should follow a steady plan. New building projects should get approval faster. The internet should be expanded faster too. Government offices should work more digitally.

The AfD wants to promote car travel and rejects a general Autobahn speed limit, diesel driving bans, and 30 km/h limits on main roads. Citizens should be free to choose their mode of transport, and mobility should stay affordable.

The AfD wants to protect driving. It wants no speed limit on the Autobahn. It is against driving bans for diesel cars. Cities should have enough lanes and parking spaces.

The AfD wants to lift the ban on combustion engines and end support for electric mobility, including publicly funded charging stations. It cites the importance of the auto industry and its suppliers, whose jobs it says depend on the combustion engine.

The AfD wants to keep the combustion engine. The planned ban should go. The state should stop favoring electric cars. It should stop paying for charging stations. The AfD says many jobs depend on the combustion engine.

The AfD wants to repair highways and bridges faster and shift more transit freight to rail and waterways. The CO₂-based increase in the truck toll is to be reversed because, in the party's view, it makes goods more expensive.

The AfD wants to fix highways and bridges faster. Trucks passing through Germany should use trains and ships more often. The higher truck toll should go down again. The AfD says the toll makes goods cost more.

The AfD wants to convert Deutsche Bahn into a GmbH (limited liability company) so the federal government can effectively steer the infrastructure, and to expand the rail network. Switzerland is to serve as the model for passenger service. The Deutschlandticket would no longer be subsidized.

The AfD wants to reorganize the railway. The federal government should be able to steer the rail network better. There should be more tracks. Trains should be on time, safe and clean. The state should stop paying extra for the Deutschlandticket.

The AfD wants to abolish the air travel tax and rejects bans on domestic and short-haul flights. It argues that high ancillary costs burden German airports and airlines and push traffic abroad.

The AfD wants to end the tax on plane tickets. Short flights inside Germany should stay allowed. The AfD says flying matters for the economy. High costs hurt German airports.

The AfD wants to cut fees and rules for German seaports, especially climate protection requirements, so they can keep up with Rotterdam and Antwerp. State or state-linked investors from outside the EU should not be allowed to buy stakes in important port companies.

The AfD wants to help German seaports. Ports should pay lower fees. There should be fewer rules, including climate rules. States from outside the EU should not be allowed to buy parts of the ports.

The AfD wants to recognize a civil right to live without digital administrative and everyday processes and to fully preserve cash as legal tender. Location tracking and device monitoring are to be limited to the bare minimum. It bases this on citizens' rights of defense against the state.

The AfD wants this: Nobody has to do everything digitally. Cash should stay. Devices should track people as little as possible. Users should be able to turn tracking off. The AfD says this protects people's freedom.

The AfD wants to undo the NetzDG (Network Enforcement Act) and refuses to implement the EU's Digital Services Act in Germany. It regards both as tools for controlling and deleting opinions online. It also wants the state to stop paying non-state actors that influence how opinions are formed.

The AfD wants to get rid of two sets of rules for social networks. One is the German NetzDG. The other is an EU law called the Digital Services Act. Both make platforms delete certain content. The AfD sees this as a danger to free speech.

The AfD wants to abolish the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (DSGVO in German) and replace it with a leaner federal data protection law. In its view, the regulation does little to protect data but burdens small and medium-sized businesses and consumers. Data protection authorities would also gain more weight, including against the state.

The GDPR is the EU's data protection law. The AfD wants to abolish it. A shorter German law would replace it. The AfD says the GDPR is a burden for small companies and consumers. Data protection agencies should also be able to punish government bodies.

The AfD calls for a federal strategy for digital sovereignty. It is meant to secure citizens' self-determination and protect government bodies and critical infrastructure. Chinese corporations would be kept out of building Germany's digital networks.

The AfD wants a plan for digital independence. Germany should rely less on others for technology. The plan should protect citizens, government offices and important facilities. The federal government should develop its own devices and programs for this. Companies from China should not help build the networks.

The AfD wants legal rules that make the use of artificial intelligence possible, for example in medical technology and transportation. It rejects EU regulation, including the AI Act, and calls for national solutions instead. Germany should not cut itself off from this growth market, the party says.

AI means artificial intelligence. The AfD wants to make it possible to use AI in Germany. Examples are medicine and transportation. The AfD rejects the EU's rules for AI. Germany should make its own rules.

The AfD rejects an ECB-issued digital euro and a central register of assets. It sees both as tools for sweeping surveillance and control of financial activity. Instead, it calls for a right to an analog life free from monitoring.

The European Central Bank plans a digital euro. The AfD is against it. It also opposes a register that lists what everyone owns. The AfD fears the state would then watch everything. People should be able to live without digital technology.

The AfD wants to expand immigration law as a tool against crime committed by foreigners. Convicted foreign offenders would have to be expelled, and people classed as security threats could be held in preventive detention.

The AfD wants tougher rules for foreigners who commit crimes. Convicted foreign offenders would have to leave the country. Dangerous people could be locked up as a precaution. Convicted offenders should not get a German passport.

The AfD wants to fight organized crime as well as clan and gang crime with more investigators and tougher rules. Assets gained through crime would be confiscated, and offenders and their relatives would have to prove where large assets came from.

The AfD wants to act against criminal gangs and clans. There would be more investigators with better equipment. The state would take away money that comes from crime. Offenders and their families would have to explain where their wealth comes from.

The AfD wants to tighten juvenile criminal law because, in its view, it no longer fits the growing number of young offenders. Children would be criminally responsible from age 12, and juvenile law would apply only up to the 18th birthday.

The AfD wants stricter rules for young offenders. Today, people can be punished only from age 14. The AfD wants this from age 12. From age 18, adult criminal law would always apply.

The AfD wants police officers to receive uniform, higher pay nationwide, better equipment and better social protection. At the same time, police commissioners, internal reporting offices and tightened disciplinary rules would be scrapped, which the platform sees as tools for exerting political influence on officers.

The AfD wants to pay police officers the same and better everywhere. They would get better weapons and equipment. The AfD wants to abolish police commissioners. These are offices that look into complaints about the police. Officers should not be fired for political reasons.

The AfD wants to strengthen the justice system with more staff and modernized procedural rules. Probation on prison sentences would be possible only after a minimum portion has been served, and third-country nationals could serve their sentences in third countries.

The AfD wants more staff for the courts. People with a prison sentence would first serve part of it. Only then could they get probation. Probation means the rest of the sentence is suspended. Foreigners from non-EU countries could serve their time abroad.

The AfD wants to fight extremism from the right, the left and from religious motives, and says the state currently neglects left-wing extremism. Violent far-left organizations would be banned and the Antifa classified as a terrorist organization.

The AfD wants to act against every kind of extremism. It says the state does too little against left-wing extremists. Violent left-wing groups would be banned. Showing their symbols would be a crime. The Antifa would count as a terror group.

The AfD wants to make it a criminal offense to publicly call for the establishment of a caliphate. Foreign nationals who take part in such rallies are to be deported. The platform argues that the demand is hostile to the constitution.

Some people call for a caliphate at protests. A caliphate is a state run by Islamic rules. The AfD wants to punish this demand. Foreigners who take part should have to leave Germany.

The AfD wants to make it a crime to act as a so-called Friedensrichter (informal arbitrator who settles disputes under Sharia). In neighborhoods the platform calls no-go areas, the state is to step in with raids and checkpoints.

In some neighborhoods, informal judges settle fights between people. They are not real judges. The AfD wants to punish their work. The police should do more checks in these neighborhoods.

The AfD rejects state spyware (Staatstrojaner), blanket data retention and comprehensive video surveillance. It sees a trend toward a surveillance state and argues that existing laws and enough staff would suffice.

The AfD wants less surveillance by the state. Cameras should not be everywhere. The state should not use spy software on phones and computers. It should also not store everyone's connection data.

The AfD wants to build up the Federal Police legally, in staffing and in technology so it can protect Germany's borders. It cites migration, cross-border crime and terrorism as reasons.

The Federal Police should be able to protect the borders better. It should get more powers and modern technology. Officers should get better pay. They should be able to retire at age 60.

The AfD wants to allow nationwide referendums modeled on Switzerland. Citizens should be able to amend or reject laws passed by parliament, pass their own laws, and decide on constitutional amendments and major international treaties.

The AfD wants referendums for all of Germany. Switzerland is the model. Citizens should be able to change or reject laws. They should also be able to propose and pass laws themselves. Citizens should also vote on changes to the constitution.

The AfD wants to abolish state rules on removing online statements, which it calls censorship, and to require large social networks to respect their users' freedom of expression. It also wants to end the special criminal-law protection of politicians against insult.

The AfD wants to end rules on deleting posts on the internet. It calls these rules censorship. Large social networks should have to respect free speech. Politicians should no longer get special protection against insults. Parties should not be allowed to own shares in media companies.

The AfD wants to bar members of parliament from serving in a government at the same time. Parliamentary state secretaries and political civil servants would be abolished, and the Federal President would be elected directly by the people.

Members of parliament should not be in the government at the same time. The AfD wants to abolish parliamentary state secretaries. These are lawmakers who assist ministers. Political civil servants should also go. Citizens should elect the Federal President themselves.

The AfD wants to introduce open-list voting for Bundestag elections, letting voters give candidates multiple votes or strike them out. Mail-in voting would be allowed only in justified exceptional cases. The party rejects a voting age below 18, a longer legislative term, and quotas.

The AfD wants to change election law. Voters should be able to boost or strike out single people on party lists. Voting by mail should need a reason. The voting age should stay at 18. Parliament should be able to hold secret votes.

The AfD wants to abolish state-funded party-affiliated foundations and have audit offices review decisions that parties make in their own interest. Public offices should be filled solely on aptitude and merit, without regard to party membership and without quotas.

Party-affiliated foundations get money from the state. The AfD wants to abolish them. Audit offices should check what parties decide for themselves. People should get state jobs only based on skill. Party membership should play no role.

The AfD wants to limit the chancellor to three legislative terms and members of parliament to a combined total of four. It bases this on its ideal of the citizen-legislator and sees career politics as a cause of cronyism and lobbying.

The AfD wants to limit time in politics. A chancellor should serve three terms at most. Lawmakers should serve four terms at most. The AfD says politics should not be a job for life.

The AfD wants to stop political parties from having a say in appointing judges and prosecutors. Prosecutors would no longer be bound by instructions from justice ministries, and the judiciary would govern itself.

The AfD wants parties to have no say in choosing judges. The same goes for prosecutors. Ministers should no longer give orders to prosecutors. The courts should run themselves.

The AfD wants to overhaul the Verfassungsschutz (domestic intelligence service) from the ground up. In its view, the agency now protects the government and no longer fulfills its original tasks. Until the reform, all parliamentary groups should take part in overseeing it.

The AfD wants to change the Verfassungsschutz a lot. That is Germany's domestic spy agency. The AfD thinks it now protects the government. Until the change, every group in parliament should help oversee it.

The AfD wants to revise the Hinweisgeberschutzgesetz (Whistleblower Protection Act) so that it also covers cases where the state fails or government bodies act unlawfully. It argues that legal violations by state bodies often come to light only through whistleblowers and alternative media.

Some people report mistakes and wrongdoing. They are called whistleblowers. A law protects them. The AfD wants to change this law. It should also apply when the state does wrong.

The AfD wants Germany to leave the euro system and reintroduce its own currency. It considers the euro a flawed construction whose rules on debt and liability are constantly broken, mostly at Germany's expense.

The AfD wants Germany to leave the euro. Germany should have its own money again. The AfD says the euro rules are broken all the time. In its view, Germany pays for other countries' debts.

The AfD rejects both a right for the EU to levy its own taxes and borrowing by the EU; debt should exist only at the national level. It also wants the ECB to stop its interventions in the capital market, such as bond purchases.

The AfD does not want the EU to collect its own taxes. The EU should not take on its own debt either. Only the individual countries should borrow money. The European Central Bank should stop buying government bonds. Bonds are IOUs from states or companies.

The AfD opposes a common European deposit insurance system. German banks should be liable only at the national level and keep their own protection schemes. The party fears that German savers would otherwise have to cover risky banks in other countries.

The EU plans a shared safety net for savings in banks. The AfD is against it. It says German savers would pay for weak banks abroad. German banks should only be liable inside Germany. Local savings banks should keep their own safety net.

The AfD wants to transform the European Union into a newly founded "Bund europäischer Nationen" (league of European nations), in which sovereign states cooperate only on a few shared interests. All other powers would return to the nation-states. In the party's view, the EU has developed into a centralized federal state.

The AfD wants to replace the EU with a new league. It would be called the league of European nations. Countries would decide for themselves there. They would work together on only a few issues. Germany should pay less.

The AfD wants a foreign policy guided by German interests and realpolitik rather than a "values-based" approach. It rejects a common EU foreign and security policy and instead seeks a union of sovereign nations.

The AfD wants foreign policy to serve Germany first. The EU should not run a shared foreign policy. The countries of Europe should decide for themselves. Foreign organizations in Germany should say where their money comes from.

The AfD rejects an eastward enlargement of the EU and NATO. It wants Europe to become strategically autonomous and a power center of its own. Until a European military alliance exists, Germany is to stay in NATO.

The AfD wants no new members in the east for the EU and NATO. Europe should be able to protect itself. Until then, Germany stays in NATO. The AfD wants to deal with the US, China, and Russia based on German interests.

The AfD wants to reinstate the suspended military draft, including alternative civilian service, to make the Bundeswehr ready for action in personnel and equipment. It also wants to expand Germany's defense industry.

The AfD wants the draft back. The draft means young people must serve in the army for a time. Those who refuse do a substitute service. The Bundeswehr should get more money, staff, and equipment. Only Germans should be soldiers.

The AfD wants a major buildup of the Bundeswehr against hybrid threats and cyberattacks, including offensive cyber capabilities. It also wants the armed forces to cultivate esprit de corps and military traditions again. For civilians, the platform calls for more shelters and working civil defense infrastructure.

The AfD wants to make the German army stronger against attacks over the internet. The army should also be able to attack online itself. Soldiers should keep old traditions alive. There should be more shelters for the public.

The AfD wants the United Nations reformed to reflect shifts in global power. Germany is to get a permanent seat on the Security Council. The party wants to withdraw from the UN migration compact and the UN refugee compact.

The AfD wants to change the United Nations. Germany should get a permanent seat on the Security Council. The AfD wants to leave two UN agreements. These agreements are about migration and refugees.

The AfD seeks a new peace order in Europe based on cooperation among all European states and regard for their security interests. It wants to strengthen the OSCE, expand arms control and renegotiate suspended disarmament treaties. It rejects reparations claims by other countries.

The AfD wants a new order for peace in Europe. All European countries should work together. There should be more control of weapons. The AfD does not want to pay compensation for World War II.

The AfD wants to end economic sanctions against Russia immediately and repair the Nord Stream pipelines to regain affordable energy. In its view, Ukraine should remain neutral and belong to neither NATO nor the EU. It rejects the planned stationing of long-range US weapons in Germany but wants better relations with the United States.

The AfD wants to end the sanctions against Russia right away. Sanctions are penalties in trade. The Nord Stream gas pipelines should be repaired. Ukraine should not join NATO or the EU. The AfD does not want new US missiles in Germany.

The AfD considers current development policy a failure and wants to align it with German security and economic interests. Aid is to go only to countries that take back their citizens who are required to leave Germany. Funding is to drop significantly because of the budget situation.

The AfD wants to spend less money on development aid. Only countries that take back their citizens from Germany should get aid. There should be more aid in kind and less money. China, India and Pakistan should get no more aid.

The AfD wants Germany's international broadcasters, the Goethe-Institut network and cultural projects to convey a positive image of Germany and promote its cultural heritage. One priority is to be support for German minorities abroad. In EU institutions, German is to be put on a truly equal footing with the working languages English and French.

The AfD wants to promote German culture abroad. German broadcasters and Goethe institutes should show a good picture of Germany. German minorities in other countries should get help. In the EU, German should matter as much as English and French.

The AfD sets a German Leitkultur (guiding culture) against the concept of multiculturalism. In its view, this guiding culture is the basis for social cohesion and a functioning state. Customs, dialects and historic townscapes are to be cultivated and preserved.

The AfD wants a German guiding culture. This means German culture should be the standard for everyone. The AfD says this holds society together. Customs and dialects should be kept alive. Old town centers should stay beautiful.

The AfD wants official remembrance culture to honor German history as a whole and not only its dark chapters. It rejects removing monuments, renaming streets and a "decolonization" of culture. For victims of communism it calls for a memorial and higher benefits.

The AfD wants to remember history in a different way. The state should also show the good times. Monuments should stay. Streets should keep their names. There should be a memorial for the victims of communism. The pension for victims of the East German regime should go up.

The AfD wants to write German into the constitution as the state and official language. Gender-inclusive language is to be banned in government offices and public institutions. The party justifies this with the importance of language for unity and with what it sees as ideology-free communication.

The AfD wants to write German into the Basic Law. The Basic Law is Germany's constitution. German should be named there as the language of the state. Public offices should no longer use gender-inclusive language. That is a way of writing that names all genders.

The AfD wants to remove political content requirements from public culture and film funding and to limit the federal government's cultural policy. Funded organizations are to commit to the free democratic basic order. Freelance artists, musicians and teachers are to pay no value-added tax up to an income threshold.

The AfD wants to change how culture is funded. The state should not tell artists which political topics to cover. This also applies to films. Groups that get state money should commit to democracy. Artists with low incomes should pay no value-added tax.

The AfD wants to fundamentally restructure and shrink public broadcasting. It is to provide only a basic service of information, culture and regional content, and without fees. The party considers public broadcasting in its current form too expensive and politically one-sided.

The AfD wants to change public broadcasting a lot. These are stations like ARD and ZDF. They should become much smaller. They should only offer news, culture and regional programs. People should no longer pay a fee for them.