AfD: program for the 2025 Hamburg state election

The AfD wants to end compulsory membership of businesses in the chamber of commerce. According to the program, most companies do not support it.

Companies in Hamburg must belong to the chamber of commerce. The AfD wants to end this rule. It says most companies do not want it. Other countries do not have this rule either.

The AfD wants to remove obstacles to the growth of the Port of Hamburg, explicitly naming the EU sanctions against Russia. It cites the port's importance for jobs and the German economy.

The Port of Hamburg matters a lot for the economy. The AfD wants it to keep growing. So obstacles should go. It counts EU penalties on Russia among them. These penalties are called sanctions.

The AfD opposes selling 49.9 percent of HHLA to the shipping company MSC, arguing it ties the city to a single investor for decades. Instead, private investors should only take stakes in individual terminals or a multi-company holding, while control stays with the city.

HHLA is Hamburg's most important port company. The city sold almost half of it to the shipping firm MSC. The AfD thinks this was wrong. Private investors should only own small parts. The city should keep control of the port.

The AfD wants to provide city-owned micro-apartments for a transitional period to homeless people from the Hamburg area and move the long-term homeless into city-owned housing. Homeless foreigners, by contrast, are to be consistently returned to their home countries. The winter emergency program would remain for homeless people from elsewhere.

More and more people in Hamburg have no home. The AfD wants to give homeless locals small apartments. The city would own these apartments. Homeless foreigners should go back to their home countries. Others can still use the winter shelter program.

The AfD wants to abolish the Grundsteuer (property tax) in the long term. In its view, the new property tax model has increased the burden on tenants and owner-occupiers and creates heavy administrative costs. Young families would pay no real estate transfer tax on their first home purchase.

Homeowners pay property tax every year. Renters pay it through their extra costs. The AfD wants to get rid of this tax. It says the new rules are too costly and complex. Young families should pay less tax on their first home.

The AfD wants to cut Hamburg's trade tax multiplier in a measured way. It notes that at 470, Hamburg has the highest burden compared with other states, and it wants to boost growth through tax cuts.

Companies in Hamburg pay a local business tax. The AfD thinks this tax is too high. It wants to lower it a bit. This should help the economy grow. But only if the city can afford it.

The AfD wants to disclose and reduce Hamburg's debt, allow no special off-budget funds, and stop spending on what it calls political experiments. Politicians and agency heads should also be personally liable for misusing public funds, and grants to activists in NGOs should be cut.

Hamburg has a lot of debt. The AfD wants to lower it. There should be no side budgets. Politicians who waste money should pay for it themselves. Groups of political activists should get less money.

The AfD wants to scrap a number of small excise and local taxes, including those on sparkling wine, coffee, entertainment, hunting and second homes, and above all the beer tax. It considers them costly to administer and insignificant for the budget.

There are many small taxes. For example on sparkling wine, coffee and beer. The AfD wants to get rid of them. It says they cause a lot of work. But they bring in little money.

The AfD wants to create a separate "Hamburg Wohngeld" (housing allowance) to top up the federal housing allowance. It would support tenants who qualify for social housing but cannot get a unit. It would be paid for with funds currently earmarked for subsidizing social housing.

Many people have a right to social housing. But there are not enough units. The AfD wants to pay these renters money. It calls this the Hamburg housing allowance. The money would come from the social housing budget.

The AfD wants to offer residential building land at reduced prices to lower-income local residents. The basis would be the Federal Building Code, which allows such locals-first models. The party also aims to protect local identity and community cohesion.

Building land in Hamburg is very expensive. The AfD wants to sell it cheaper to locals. This is for people with less money. A points system would decide. Volunteering and work earn points.

The AfD rejects the Senate's goal of growing Hamburg to more than two million residents by 2030, as well as densifying existing neighborhoods under the "Hamburger Maß" guideline. Instead, money should go into transport links and digital infrastructure in the surrounding region. The metropolitan region is to become a joint planning region with neighboring districts.

The city wants more buildings in existing neighborhoods. The AfD is against this. Hamburg should not grow to two million people. The AfD wants better links to nearby towns instead. Hamburg should plan together with its neighbors.

The AfD wants to significantly raise Hamburg's homeownership rate, which the program puts at 25 percent. For a first owner-occupied home, the real estate transfer tax and land registry fees would be waived, notary fees capped and a home-building allowance paid. In the AfD's view, ownership protects against rent increases and poverty in old age.

Few people in Hamburg own their home. The AfD wants to change that. First-time buyers should pay no property purchase tax. Notary and agent costs should also go down. The state should also give buyers money.

The AfD wants to exempt working families with low and middle incomes from certain costs at educational institutions, such as school lunches. They are also to receive tax relief through child tax allowances. The program sees an unfairness compared with families who receive welfare benefits.

Some families work but earn little. They get no help from the state. The AfD thinks this is unfair. These families should not pay for school lunch. They should also pay less tax.

The AfD wants mandatory medical checkups for children, with compliance monitored. Before starting school, children should attend a daily children's group for a year, compulsorily if their German is lacking. It also wants to improve staff-to-child ratios in Hamburg daycare, which it calls the worst in Germany.

Children should see a doctor regularly. The AfD wants to make these checkups required. Doctors should also look for signs of abuse. Before school, children should join a group for one year. Children with poor German must go to kindergarten.

Parents who care for their child at home during the first three years should receive compensation of at least half the cost of a daycare place. The AfD justifies this with freedom of choice and respect for domestic caregiving; daycare quality should also improve, with no more than six children per caregiver.

Some parents care for their small child at home. The AfD wants to pay them for it. They should get at least half of what a daycare spot costs. Parents should be free to choose. In daycare, one caregiver should look after six children at most.

The AfD wants families to be able to live on one full-time income and to give families priority when lowering taxes and levies. It seeks a return to traditional family values, with the family as the first source of support in hard times.

The AfD wants one salary to be enough for a family. Families should pay less in taxes and fees. Families should be able to save and buy a home again. Families should help each other in hard times.

The AfD wants mothers and fathers to receive full state support even after a family breaks up. Its child-friendly measures should also apply in full to single parents, and fathers should not be disadvantaged in custody and child support law.

Some families break apart. Mothers and fathers should still get help from the state. Single parents should not be treated worse. Fathers should be treated fairly in custody law. The mother's role stays important too.

The AfD wants teachers to structure and direct lessons more strongly again, and subject content to take priority over a competency-based approach. Teacher training should remain separate by type of school degree. The platform cites findings from empirical education research.

The AfD wants teachers to lead lessons more strongly again. Subject knowledge should matter more. Students should practice and repeat more. Teachers should be trained separately for each type of school.

The AfD wants to give math, computer science, natural sciences and technology more weight in the timetable and set up a funding program together with business. Digital media should support in-person teaching but not replace it. It calls for an overall strategy for digitalization in schools.

The AfD wants more lessons in math, computer science, science and technology. Companies should help with this. Computers should help in class. But they should not replace lessons with teachers.

The AfD wants to strengthen the performance principle in schools: grades would be mandatory from second grade, and a passing grade of 4 would again require half of the points. Repeating a year would become possible, and core subjects would be taught in ability groups.

The AfD wants grades starting in second grade. To pass a test, students should again need half of the points. Students should be able to repeat a school year. In key subjects there should be groups by ability.

The AfD wants violence, lateness and truancy at schools to be consistently penalized. State welfare payments would depend on parents ensuring, for example, regular school attendance, and fines are also planned. Religious bullying should be detected early and stopped.

The AfD wants more discipline in schools. Students who skip school or come late should face consequences. Parents should get less money from the state if their child does not go to school. There should also be fines.

The AfD demands strict party-political and ideological neutrality in schools and wants the school authority to penalize violations. In its view, people at some schools no longer dare to voice their opinion on controversial topics.

The AfD wants schools to be politically neutral. Teachers should not win students over for a party. Those who break this rule should face consequences. Political advertising should stay banned in schools.

The AfD wants parents to no longer decide alone on their child's secondary school, but together with the school. If the two disagree, written exams would decide. It argues that sole parental choice often leads to wrong decisions and social inequality.

Today in Hamburg, parents alone choose the school after elementary school. The AfD wants to change that. School and parents should decide together. If they disagree, a written exam should decide.

The AfD wants to raise standards at Gymnasien (academic high schools) and for the Abitur (university entrance diploma) and stop the trend toward ever higher Abitur rates. Gymnasien could choose to return to a nine-year track (G9), and some would get excellence centers for especially strong students.

The AfD wants the Abitur, the top school diploma, to be harder again. Academic high schools should choose for themselves: diploma after 8 or 9 years. Some of these schools should get special centers for very strong students.

The AfD wants to respond to rising student numbers by founding significantly more new schools rather than making existing ones ever larger. This is meant to preserve the model of small and mid-sized schools.

Hamburg has more and more students. So the AfD wants to found many new schools. Existing schools should not keep growing. Schools should stay a manageable size.

The AfD rejects a "school for all" that takes in every child regardless of the type and severity of disability. Special-needs schools should remain, and parents of children with special educational needs should keep the right to choose. In the program's view, the child's welfare must guide every decision.

Some children need special support. There are special schools for them. The AfD wants to keep these schools. Parents should choose where their child learns. First, they should get good advice.

Newly arrived children without sufficient German should first be taught in preparatory classes. They should move into regular classes only after passing tests in German and subject knowledge. Children with no prospect of staying should be prepared for returning to their home country.

Some children are new in Germany. They often speak little German. They should first learn in special classes. After a test, they join regular classes. Children who cannot stay should get ready to go back.

The AfD rejects Hamburg's sex education framework, which in its view seeks to replace marriage and family with "sexual diversity." It wants restrained, biology-based sex education coordinated with parents. It opposes what it calls premature sexualization in daycare centers and schools.

The AfD wants to change sex education in schools. It should follow biology. Children should learn that there are two sexes. Parents and schools should work together. Drag queens should not perform in daycare or primary schools.

The AfD wants to stop funding gender studies courses that it regards as ideological and unscientific. Research on gender should fully take natural science findings into account. More broadly, universities should gain autonomy and face less state bureaucracy.

The AfD criticizes gender studies at universities. It thinks some courses are not scientific. These courses should get no more money. Research on gender should follow natural science. Universities should have less red tape.

The AfD opposes what it sees as an overemphasis on university education and wants the state to strengthen dual vocational training. It aims to fend off EU efforts to weaken the system or the master craftsman title. The high dropout rate in apprenticeships should be reduced through better career guidance.

The AfD values training on the job. Trainees learn at a company and at a vocational school. The state should support this training more. The EU should not weaken it. Young people should get more help choosing a job.

The AfD calls for a transparent review of the COVID period, arguing that medical decisions were not made professionally. It rejects restrictions on freedom and compulsory vaccination.

The AfD wants a close look at the COVID years. It thinks wrong decisions were made back then. It is against strict rules that limit people. It is also against forced vaccination.

Until federal long-term care funding is reformed, the AfD wants Hamburg's state budget to provide financial relief to people needing care. At the same time, the city's care inspectorate should get more staff and inspect nursing homes much more intensively.

Care costs a lot of money. Many people who need care become poor. The AfD wants Hamburg to help them with money. Nursing homes should also be checked more often. The city should hire more inspectors for this.

Doctors from outside the EU should no longer be licensed based on documents alone. Instead, the AfD wants a written and oral or practical exam at the level of the German state medical exam to protect patients.

Some doctors come from countries outside the EU. Often they only show their certificates. The AfD wants more. These doctors should take a test. The test should be as hard as for German doctors.

The AfD wants to reduce hospital-acquired infections through a quality program modeled on the Netherlands. Hospitals should publish annual hygiene reports and get support if infection rates are high.

Some patients catch germs in hospitals. The AfD wants fewer such cases. Hospitals should publish a hygiene report every year. Hospitals with many infections should get help.

To address the shortage of midwives, the AfD wants to make the profession more financially attractive. Following the Bavarian model, midwives should get a start-up bonus for setting up practice and a bonus for attending at least four births a year.

Hamburg has too few midwives. The AfD wants to make the job better. Midwives should get money when they open their own practice. There should also be a bonus. Pregnant women should get better information.

The AfD views medical care and health protection as national responsibilities without interference from the WHO or the EU. Care should be organized locally, available everywhere and for all citizens, according to proven quality standards.

The AfD says health is Germany's own business. The WHO and the EU should not decide. The WHO is the World Health Organization. Doctors should be close by everywhere.

The AfD wants to split the combined nursing training back into elderly care, pediatric and general nursing, and add assistant levels. Family caregivers should get more support, especially financial, and doctors should be relieved of paperwork by assistants.

Today there is one shared training for all care jobs. The AfD wants three separate trainings again. There should also be short trainings for helpers. Families caring for relatives should get more money. Doctors should get helpers for office work.

Through the Bundesrat, the AfD wants foreign offenders to be expelled automatically whenever they are sentenced to prison, even if the sentence is suspended. It cites high reoffending rates as the reason.

Foreigners sentenced to prison should have to leave the country. This should apply even with a suspended sentence. Today this rule starts at three years in prison. The AfD wants to change the law through the Bundesrat.

The AfD wants Hamburg to deport all foreigners who are legally required to leave. Measures include multiplying detention places, monitoring those due for deportation with ankle tags, and ending integration offers for people staying only temporarily.

Some foreigners must leave Germany. The AfD wants Hamburg to deport all of them. There should be many more places in deportation detention. Some people should wear an electronic ankle tag. Then they cannot go into hiding.

The AfD sees asylum as temporary protection that ends with return. It will not fund integration efforts for asylum seekers and rejects the "Spurwechsel" (switching from asylum to a work-based residence status).

For the AfD, asylum is only protection for a while. When the danger is over, people should go back. So the AfD does not want to pay for their integration. Asylum seekers should not be able to become work migrants.

Through the Bundesrat, the AfD wants a much more restrictive immigration system. Asylum migration would follow an Australian-style model, and skilled immigration a points system.

The AfD wants much stricter rules for immigration. For refugees, Germany should act like Australia. Skilled workers should be chosen with a points system. Borders should be strictly protected.

The AfD wants benefits for protection seekers provided exclusively in kind. It considers the payment card a first but insufficient step against what it sees as economically motivated asylum abuse.

Refugees should not get money anymore. They should only get things, like food and a bed. The payment card is not enough for the AfD. It wants to stop people from coming only for money.

The AfD wants asylum seekers housed centrally following Denmark's example. In its view, this allows better control and creates incentives for voluntary departure.

Asylum seekers should live in one central place. The model is Denmark. The AfD says this gives more control. More people would then leave on their own. Some shelters in Hamburg should close.

The AfD wants a substantial change to the Königsteiner Schlüssel, the formula that distributes asylum seekers among the German states, so that it reflects Hamburg's particular situation. In the program's view, this is meant to preserve the city's German and Central European cultural character.

Asylum seekers are shared out among the German states. A formula decides how many each state gets. The AfD wants to change this formula. Hamburg should get a better deal. The AfD says this protects the city's culture.

The AfD wants to stop private sea rescue ships, which it calls smuggler ships, from entering or leaving the Port of Hamburg. Hamburg authorities are to be empowered to seize them. In the program's view, these ships drive illegal migration and put people's lives at risk.

Private ships rescue people in the Mediterranean. The AfD calls them smuggler ships. These ships should not use Hamburg's port. Officials should be allowed to seize them. The groups behind them should lose their benefits.

The AfD wants to ban the Islamic full-face veil in all public spaces in Hamburg. In addition, a general headscarf ban is to apply in public institutions and the civil service. The program cites equality between women and men and what it sees as growing Islamization.

The AfD wants to ban full-face veils. This would apply in all public places. Headscarves should also be banned. This covers offices, schools, universities and state hospitals. The AfD points to France as a model.

The AfD rejects gender mainstreaming and tools such as gender studies, quotas for women and gender-neutral language. Family policy should be based on father, mother and children, and positions should be filled solely on qualifications and merit.

The AfD says there are two sexes. It is against gender policies. It is also against quotas for women and gender-neutral language. For the AfD, family means father, mother and children. Jobs should go to the most capable.

The AfD wants to ban gender transition procedures and puberty blockers for children and adolescents. In its view, such a serious decision should only be made in adulthood.

Some children want to change their gender. The AfD wants to ban this for children and teens. It is also against puberty blockers. These are drugs that stop puberty. Only adults should decide this.

The AfD wants to abolish energy efficiency requirements and levies for buildings, which it considers excessive. Besides raw material prices and interest rates, the program names mandatory solar roofs and energy retrofits as drivers of construction costs.

Building is very expensive in Hamburg. The AfD blames rules on saving energy, too. One rule says new roofs need solar panels. The AfD wants to get rid of these rules.

The AfD wants to reverse the coal phase-out and bring all available power plants back online immediately. The Moorburg plant should run on coal again instead of being turned into a hydrogen project. The party cites supply security and independence from imports.

Germany plans to stop using coal. The AfD wants to stop that plan. All power plants should run again right away. The Moorburg plant should burn coal again. The AfD rejects a hydrogen project there.

Citizens and property owners should be free to choose between district heating, oil, gas and heat pumps. The AfD rejects the heating law pushed by the "traffic light" coalition, which it describes as a heating ban and a de facto heat pump mandate.

Everyone should choose how to heat their home. It can be gas, oil, district heating or a heat pump. The AfD opposes the heating law. It says the law forces people to use heat pumps.

The AfD wants to halt construction of new wind turbines in Hamburg. Existing turbines should not be replaced when their permits expire. It cites rising electricity prices, grid risks and the protection of birds and bats.

The AfD wants no new wind turbines in Hamburg. Old turbines should not be replaced later. The AfD says wind power makes electricity more expensive. It also says turbines harm birds and bats.

The AfD considers the nuclear phase-out a mistake and wants new nuclear power plants built in Germany again. Hamburg itself is not a suitable site, but it should support research on reactors. In the program's view, this would lower energy prices and stabilize the grid.

Germany shut down its nuclear plants. The AfD thinks that was wrong. New nuclear plants should be built again. But not in Hamburg. Hamburg should help with research.

The AfD wants to protect Hamburg's green spaces, allotment gardens and nature areas from development and launch a program to unseal paved ground. Parks should be cleared of litter, graffiti removed faster and more trees planted. Measures for groundwater and biodiversity are also included.

Hamburg should stay green. Small gardens and street trees should be protected. Concrete and asphalt should be removed in many places. Parks should be clean. Schools should get school gardens. This should protect insects and birds.

The AfD wants to keep the Dove Elbe as an inland waterway and recreation area. It opposes industrial use as a tidal waterway as part of the Elbe deepening, arguing this would cause silting and harm local businesses.

The Dove Elbe is a large river arm in Hamburg. Many people relax there. The AfD wants to keep it that way. Tides should not reach it. Otherwise boat businesses would be at risk.

The AfD rejects converting traffic lanes on main roads into bike lanes and wants to keep the roads as high-capacity arteries. The U4 subway line is to be extended to Harburg quickly, and new Elbe crossings built promptly. Citizens should be free to choose how they travel, without bans aimed at drivers.

The AfD does not want car lanes turned into bike lanes. Big roads should stay for cars. The U4 subway line should go to Harburg. There should be new ways across the Elbe River. Everyone should choose freely how to travel.

The AfD wants to build new road links such as the Hafenquerspange and additional crossings of the Elbe, and to lift driving restrictions for diesel vehicles. In its view, driving bans hurt commuters, retail and business. It rejects paid resident parking schemes.

The AfD wants to build new roads and new crossings over the Elbe river. Diesel cars should be allowed to drive everywhere again. The AfD says driving bans hurt the city. It is against paid parking zones for residents.

The AfD wants to end the removal of parking spaces and restore enough free spaces to meet demand. According to the platform, this would sharply cut traffic caused by drivers looking for parking.

The AfD wants no more parking spaces to be removed. There should be more parking spaces again. They should be free. Then drivers do not have to search so long.

The AfD rejects both a city toll and a general road toll. It argues that a toll would burden low- and middle-income earners and hurt downtown retailers.

The AfD does not want a toll for cars in the city. A toll is a fee for driving on roads. The AfD says this would burden people with little money. Shops in the city center would also suffer.

The AfD wants reliable, affordable and safe public transit based on a transport development plan looking to 2050. Rail lines should reach far into the surrounding region to reduce commuter flows. It rejects a new tram and parts of the U5 subway line.

The AfD wants buses and trains that are on time, cheap and safe. Trains should run far out into the region. The AfD does not want a new tram. It also rejects parts of the new U5 subway line.

The AfD wants sidewalks reserved for pedestrians only and repaired faster in an accessible way. The Velorouten (city bike routes) should be completed and existing bike lanes renovated, but it rejects a network of bike highways. Improperly parked e-scooters should face tougher penalties.

The AfD says sidewalks are only for people on foot. Sidewalks should be repaired faster. Old bike lanes should be fixed. The AfD does not want fast bike highways. People who park e-scooters the wrong way should pay higher fines.

In the long run, the AfD wants to move Hamburg's airport out to the surrounding metropolitan region to end aircraft noise. In the short term, takeoff and landing fees after 10 p.m. should rise significantly to give residents relief at night.

Planes make a lot of noise in Hamburg. The AfD wants to move the airport out of the city later. Until then, flights after 10 p.m. should cost more. This should give neighbors more quiet at night.

The AfD supports careful use of artificial intelligence wherever it makes processes more efficient and improves quality of life. Regulation should ensure that humans stay in control, and AI should be used cautiously in schools.

AI means artificial intelligence. The AfD wants to use AI. AI should make work easier. But people must stay in control. Rules are needed for that. Schools should use AI carefully.

The AfD wants all of Hamburg connected to fiber-optic internet and wants to promote digital government services, while keeping in-person contact with authorities possible. Digital technology in classrooms should also be promoted, without displacing handwriting and basic arithmetic.

All of Hamburg should get fast internet. This needs fiber-optic cables. Public offices should work more digitally. But people should still be able to talk to staff in person. Schools should use digital tools. Kids should still learn to write and do math.

The AfD supports private ownership of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies and wants trading and research in this field to stay legal and be promoted. It rejects a central bank digital currency issued by the European Central Bank, seeing it as a threat to civil liberties.

Bitcoin is a digital currency. The AfD likes such currencies. People should be allowed to own and trade them. The European Central Bank plans a digital euro. The AfD is against it. It sees a danger to freedom.

The AfD wants to give Hamburg's police more money, staff and equipment. Body cameras are to be used across the force and tasers trialed, to protect officers and emergency workers from attacks.

The AfD wants more money and more staff for the police. Officers should wear small body cameras everywhere. Stun guns should also be tested. This should protect police and rescue workers.

The AfD wants more positions for judges, prosecutors and court staff and a digitalized justice system. Anyone who violates probation conditions should have to serve their sentence immediately.

The AfD wants more judges and prosecutors in Hamburg. Courts should work more digitally. Some offenders get probation. They must follow certain rules. Anyone who breaks these rules should go to prison right away.

The AfD wants to reinstate the district public order service (BOD) to relieve what it sees as an overburdened police force of non-sovereign tasks. Working with the city sanitation department, it would keep the city orderly and clean.

The AfD wants to bring back the district order service. It should keep the city orderly and clean. It works together with the city cleaning service. Then the police have more time for criminals.

The AfD considers German criminal law too lenient and court rulings too offender-friendly. It wants legal training to sensitize future judges and prosecutors differently and to prevent lenient sentences through changes in the law.

The AfD thinks punishments in Germany are too mild. Future judges should learn to think more about victims. The AfD wants laws against sentences that are too mild. Judges would then have less freedom to decide.

Following the "Neukölln model," the AfD wants young offenders tried quickly in simplified proceedings. Juvenile criminal law should no longer apply to 18- to 20-year-olds, and the party is open to lowering the age of criminal responsibility to 12.

Young offenders should go to court faster. The model comes from Berlin-Neukölln. People aged 18 to 20 should be punished like adults. The AfD is open to punishing children from age 12.

The AfD wants more state funding to fight left-wing extremism and Islamism. Initiatives against them are to be funded on par with those against right-wing extremism, and each form of extremism is to get its own state program.

The AfD wants to spend more money against left-wing extremism and Islamism. Islamism means using religion for extreme politics. Groups fighting these dangers should get as much money as groups against right-wing extremism. All schools should teach about it.

The AfD wants to have the left-wing center Rote Flora in Hamburg's Schanzenviertel cleared. It sees the building as the command center of the autonomist scene and considers its occupation of over 30 years largely illegal.

The Rote Flora is a left-wing center in Hamburg. The AfD wants to clear the building. It says the left-wing scene is run from there. The AfD thinks its use is not legal.

The AfD wants violent Antifa groups to be classified as terrorist organizations. It sees these groups as part of Hamburg's far-left scene.

Antifa is a name for left-wing anti-fascist groups. Some of them are violent. The AfD wants these groups labeled as terror groups. Then the state could act more harshly against them.

The AfD wants Hamburg to adopt its own assembly law modeled on Bavaria's stricter law. Violent protests, blockades and counter-demonstrations are to be stopped more easily, and foreigners more easily excluded from assemblies.

Hamburg should get its own law for protests. The model is Bavaria's strict law. Violent protests should be easier to ban. Police should act harder against protests that were not registered. Foreigners should be easier to exclude from protests.

The AfD calls for immediately launching proceedings to ban the Islamic Centre Hamburg (IZH). It describes the IZH as Islamist and antisemitic and says it is directly controlled by Iran's regime.

The IZH is an Islamic center in Hamburg. The AfD wants it banned. It says the IZH is Islamist and hostile to Jews. The AfD says Iran controls it.

The AfD wants state funding for political and civil society groups to be granted only if recipients pledge in writing to uphold the free democratic basic order. This pledge is to be checked.

Some groups get money from the state of Hamburg. They should first promise in writing to support democracy and the constitution. The state should check this promise. Without it, there is no money.

The AfD wants to terminate Hamburg's 2012 state treaty with Islamic associations. In its view, the treaty's integration goal has failed and some associations are controlled from abroad. The obligations of Islamic communities would then be set out by law.

In 2012, Hamburg signed a treaty with Islamic groups. The AfD wants to end this treaty. It says the treaty did not help integration. It says some groups are run from abroad. A law should later set the duties of these communities.

The AfD wants to restrict the right of environmental associations to file lawsuits. In its view, their suits delay democratic decisions by Hamburg's parliament and senate and give individual interest groups too much influence.

Environmental groups can sue against decisions. The AfD wants to limit this right. It says the lawsuits delay important projects. Parliament and government should be able to act faster.

The AfD rejects political correctness and measures against "hate speech," which it views as disguised censorship. The only limit on free speech should be criminal law.

The AfD wants more free speech. Everyone should be able to say what they think. The AfD sees rules against "hate speech" as censorship. Only criminal law should set a limit.

The AfD wants a rule that no party can be denied use of city-owned or city-funded venues for events. It also wants the Verfassungsschutz (domestic intelligence agency) to stop monitoring legal parties and focus on political violence and terrorism.

All parties should be able to use city rooms. This is for meetings and events. The Verfassungsschutz is a secret service. It should stop watching legal parties. It should focus on violence and terror.

The AfD wants citizens' referendums at the district level to be more binding. The Senate should no longer be able to override them by taking over the decision, but should instead call a citywide referendum when citywide interests are at stake.

People in districts can vote on local issues. Today the city government can overrule them. That should no longer be possible. If there is a conflict, all of Hamburg should vote.

The AfD wants signatures for popular initiatives and petitions for referendums to be collectible digitally as well. Votes and elections, however, should continue to use paper ballots to maintain trust in these processes.

Citizens can start initiatives for a public vote. This needs many signatures. People should be able to sign online too. But elections should stay on paper. That way people can trust elections.

The AfD wants the Bundeswehr (German armed forces) to stay visible in Hamburg, for example through promotion ceremonies on Rathausmarkt, and wants youth officers to keep access to schools. It also wants the military's sports support unit to move from Appen to Hamburg.

The AfD is proud of the soldiers. The army should be easy to see in Hamburg. Promotion ceremonies should be public. Best on the square by City Hall. Army officers should keep visiting schools. An army sports group should move to Hamburg.

The AfD wants to promote Hamburg as a location for consulates and international institutions and strengthen its sister-city partnerships. A new partnership should be formed with an Israeli port city such as Haifa.

More countries should open offices in Hamburg. These are called consulates. Hamburg should advertise for that. Hamburg has sister cities around the world. These ties should grow stronger. A new sister city should be in Israel, for example Haifa.

The AfD wants Hamburg's spending on development projects reviewed for measurable results and aligned more closely with Hamburg's interests. If the human rights situation in Dar es Salaam does not change in the coming years, projects there should be phased out and the sister-city partnership ended.

Hamburg pays for aid in poor countries. The AfD wants to check if it works. The aid should also help Hamburg. Hamburg has a sister city in Africa: Dar es Salaam. Gay people are persecuted there. If that does not change, the partnership should end.

The AfD wants to develop a "New Old Town Hamburg" concept to restore historic centers lost in the war and postwar reconstruction at two sites. Small-scale buildings are to be built at Hopfenmarkt and Schaarmarkt.

Hamburg was destroyed in the war. Later, the city was rebuilt for cars. Old neighborhoods were lost. The AfD wants to rebuild the old town in two places. Small houses like in the past should go there.

The AfD sees the German language as a key cultural asset to be preserved. It rejects rules for "gender-fair" and "politically correct" language and wants to stop state interference in how the language develops. It backs initiatives to ban gender-inclusive language in public administration and education.

The AfD wants to protect the German language. It opposes gender-inclusive language. One example is a star symbol inside words. The state should not set language rules. The AfD supports a ban in offices and schools.

The AfD wants to reform the broadcasting fee and overhaul the Interstate Broadcasting Treaty, or terminate it if reform fails. The goal is a slimmed-down "Grundfunk" (basic broadcasting), and no one should be required to pay for public broadcasting anymore.

Today every household pays a broadcasting fee. The AfD wants to change that. Nobody should have to pay anymore. There should only be a small basic service. It should report neutrally. Otherwise Hamburg should quit the broadcasting treaty.

The AfD affirms artistic freedom and supports Hamburg's theater and museum culture. If publicly funded stages or exhibition venues are, in its view, used for one-sided political propaganda, their funding should be withdrawn immediately.

The AfD wants art to be free. It supports theaters and museums in Hamburg. But some stages do one-sided politics, the AfD says. Then the city should stop paying them.

The AfD wants to block renamings of streets and squares that it considers ideologically motivated. Renamings that have already happened should be reversed where possible.

Some streets get new names. The AfD often sees this as ideological. It wants to stop such new names. Old names should come back if possible.

The AfD wants Hamburg's Dekadenstrategie (ten-year sports strategy) fully implemented in urban planning and sports funding. Grassroots sports and smaller clubs should receive a base payment. State tasks should not be shifted onto sports clubs.

The AfD wants more support for sports for everyone. Small sports clubs should get a fixed basic amount of money. Tasks of the state should stay with the state. Clubs should not have to take them over.