AfD: program for the 2026 Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania state election

The AfD wants to write the social market economy into the state constitution as a state goal. It argues that subsidies, bans and bureaucracy are increasingly undermining this model.

The AfD wants to put the social market economy into the state constitution. Social market economy means: companies compete, and the state provides balance. The AfD says the state interferes too much. It wants to change that.

The AfD wants to fundamentally revise the state's Tariftreue- und Vergabegesetz (law tying public contracts to collectively agreed wages) and strike wage requirements from procurement. In its view the law disadvantages small firms, makes contracts more expensive and interferes with freedom of contract.

The state gives contracts to companies. Today these companies must pay union-level wages. The AfD wants to remove this rule. It says small companies otherwise have no chance of getting contracts.

The AfD wants to liberalize shop closing times and the Bäderverkaufsverordnung (rules on Sunday sales in resort towns) and allow more Sunday shopping days. It rejects new levies on businesses in a future tourism law.

The AfD wants shops to be allowed to open longer. There should be more Sundays when shops are open. Special sales rules should apply in more vacation towns. The AfD does not want new charges for tourism businesses.

The AfD wants to use a large share of federal and EU funding differently, mainly for location quality, technology, start-ups and self-employment. The state's microloan program would offer larger amounts and lower interest rates.

The state gets funding from the federal government and the EU. The AfD wants to spend this money differently. More money should go to founders and new technology. Small loans for founders should become larger and cheaper.

The AfD wants to support companies in using robotics, automation, software and artificial intelligence to partly make up for missing workers. Tax incentives would speed up such investments.

Many companies lack workers. The AfD wants companies to use more robots and computer programs. In return, companies should pay less tax. Government offices should also work more digitally.

The AfD wants to expand the health economy with a life sciences growth initiative and turn research into products faster. In the food industry, regional value chains would be strengthened.

The AfD wants more support for companies in medicine and research. Results from universities should become products faster. Food companies should also get help. What is grown in the state should also be processed there.

The AfD wants to keep giving targeted support to the state's shipyards, focusing on specialized vessels and ships for public purposes. Guarantees and other funding would be granted only after a strict risk assessment.

The AfD wants to keep helping the shipyards in the state. Shipyards are companies that build ships. They should mainly build special ships, for example for the navy and research. The state should check carefully how risky its help is.

The AfD wants to replace the Landesförderinstitut (state funding institute) with a central, digital state development bank and streamline the roughly 250 funding programs. All taxpayers would receive a pre-filled tax return, and access to public agencies would go digital.

The state hands out funding through its own institute. The AfD wants to create a new digital state bank for this. There should be fewer funding programs. Everyone should get a tax return that is already filled in.

The AfD wants to extend tourism across the whole year and into the inland regions. Its guiding ideas are quality over quantity and a balance between the coast and the interior. It plans winter offerings, more riding, cycling, and water tourism, and help with recruiting staff.

The AfD wants more tourists in winter. The land behind the coast should also get more guests. Riding, cycling, and rowing should matter more. Hotels and restaurants should find staff more easily.

The AfD rejects the state's planned tourism law. In its view, the law brings extra red tape, possible new levies, and centralization at the state level. Instead, it calls for more regional self-reliance and targeted help for businesses and infrastructure.

The state is planning a tourism law. The AfD is against it. It says the law brings more paperwork and maybe new fees. The regions should decide for themselves instead.

The AfD wants to push at the federal level for basic income support to focus more on work incentives, so that people who work are clearly better off than those who do not. Rules on additional earnings would be reformed and working hours made more flexible.

The AfD wants to change basic income support. That is money from the state for people without income. Working should pay more than not working. Working hours should also be more flexible.

The AfD wants to make public spaces fully accessible without barriers. Together with companies and social insurance agencies, more people with severe disabilities are to be brought into work.

People with disabilities should be able to get around everywhere. The AfD wants to remove barriers in public places. More people with severe disabilities should find work. The AfD wants to work with companies on this.

The AfD wants Mecklenburg-Vorpommern to create an allowance for deaf people modeled on the existing allowance for blind people. Blind, severely visually impaired, and deaf people as well as children with the most severe disabilities are to receive financial compensation for their disadvantages.

Blind people get money from the state. The AfD wants the same kind of money for deaf people. Deaf means a person cannot hear. Children with very severe disabilities should also get support.

The AfD wants to further develop the state's law on welfare funding and transparency. Executives at welfare and social service organizations would have to disclose their compensation so that, in the party's view, taxpayer money reaches the places where it is needed.

Welfare groups get money from the state. The AfD wants to know what their bosses earn. The groups should show this in a report. That way the money should reach the people who need help.

The AfD wants pension claims from the GDR's supplementary pension schemes to be recognized. In addition, women who were divorced in the GDR should no longer be worse off in their pensions. The program points to a growing risk of poverty among retirees.

Some people earned extra pension rights in East Germany. The AfD wants these rights to count. Women who were divorced in East Germany should get a fairer pension. The AfD says more and more retirees are at risk of poverty.

The AfD wants to push at the federal level for family splitting. Under this model, a family's income would be divided for tax purposes among all members, including the children. This is meant to give families noticeable relief and recognize child-rearing in the tax system.

The AfD wants to change taxes for families. The family's income would be divided among all members. Children would count too. This way families with children pay less tax.

The AfD wants to eliminate the real estate transfer tax on a buyer's first owner-occupied home and gradually lower it for all other purchases. At the federal level it advocates lower taxes and social contributions so that, in its view, work pays off more.

People who buy a house pay a tax. The AfD wants to end this tax for a first home of your own. For everyone else the tax should go down. Other taxes and contributions should also go down across Germany.

The AfD wants to balance the state budget, keep the debt brake and limit the state to core tasks. It plans a full financial audit, a supplementary budget and cuts to staff positions, commissioner posts and funding programs. It cites an expected deficit of one billion euros from 2028.

The AfD says the state will soon be short of a lot of money. It does not want new debt. The state should spend less and have fewer administrative staff. Ministers and lawmakers should get less pay during this time.

The AfD wants to make Mecklenburg-Vorpommern a "cash-friendly state." Citizens should be able to decide for themselves whether to pay in cash or by card. A network of savings bank ATMs is to be guaranteed by law.

The AfD wants to protect cash. Everyone should choose: pay with cash or pay by card. The savings banks should have cash machines all over the state. A law should say so.

The AfD wants more people in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern to be able to afford their own house or apartment. Tax advantages would be tied to conditions such as building in the regional style or guaranteeing affordable rents. Accessible housing suited to older people would also be supported.

The AfD wants more people to be able to buy a home. People who build in a way that helps the state should pay less tax. One example is offering low rents. The state should also support homes for older people.

The AfD wants to remove building rules it considers unnecessary and create a single statewide framework. This includes reforming the forest law, adjusting heating standards, and setting short deadlines for species protection reports.

The AfD wants building to go faster. It wants to remove building rules. The same rules should apply across the whole state. Reports on protecting animals should be finished sooner.

The AfD wants targeted support for housing cooperatives and municipal housing companies. Vacant buildings would be made usable again through subsidized renovation and conversion. Housing should stay affordable first for local residents, including against pressure from vacation rentals.

The AfD wants to keep low-cost housing. It wants to help housing co-ops and town-owned housing companies. Empty buildings should be rebuilt with public money. People who live here should come before vacation rentals.

The AfD wants to give lasting security to allotment gardens, weekend settlements, and settlers' associations. Their interests would have to be taken into account in urban and regional planning. When such land is sold, local residents would get priority over outside investors.

The AfD wants to protect allotment gardens and weekend settlements. Towns should have to consider them when they plan. Clubs and tenants should be able to stay safely. When land is sold, local people should get to buy first.

The AfD wants to give families financial relief and more time, and to let parents choose freely between caring for children at home and paid work. Counseling and support services for families in crisis are to be better funded and easy to reach in rural areas as well. The platform justifies this with the state's low birth rate.

The AfD wants to help families. Parents should have more money and more time for their children. They should choose for themselves whether to work or care for children at home. There should be more counseling for families in need, also in the countryside.

The AfD wants to pay a welcome bonus of €3,000 for every newborn child. It would go to citizens whose main residence is in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and is meant to make it easier for young people to decide to have children.

The AfD wants to give parents €3,000 for each baby. Only citizens who live in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern get the money. The state pays it in three parts. The goal is for more young people to have children.

The AfD wants to keep daycare free of charge while enforcing more staff per child. Childcare workers are to be paid better and relieved of paperwork, and daycare operators are to be monitored more closely. German is to be the mandatory language in daycare centers.

Daycare should stay free for parents. The AfD wants more staff for the children. The staff should be paid well. Everyone in daycare should speak German. The state should check daycare operators more closely.

The AfD wants to keep the current time-limit rule for abortion and rejects any further legalization. At the same time, help for pregnant women in distress is to be expanded so that more women decide to have the child. The party considers the right to life of the unborn insufficiently protected today.

The AfD wants to keep today's rules on abortion. It is against loosening these rules. Pregnant women in need should get more help. That way more women should decide to have their child.

The AfD wants every state law and regulation to be checked for its effects on families before it is adopted. The assessment is to be mandatory so that effects do not become visible only after a law takes effect.

The AfD wants new state laws to be checked in advance. The check should show what a law means for families. For example: Will families have less money or more paperwork? The check should be mandatory.

The AfD wants to preserve and expand Childhood Houses, where children who have experienced violence are cared for and interviewed in one place. Mother-child facilities are to receive stable funding that covers their costs. This is to be accompanied by more prevention and training for professionals.

The AfD wants to protect children better from violence. There are houses where doctors, police and youth welfare offices help together. These houses should stay and there should be more of them. Facilities for mothers and children in need should also get enough money. Professionals should learn to spot dangers to children early.

The AfD wants to strengthen dual vocational training and upskill the existing workforce. For master craftsman training, funding would cover 90 percent of the costs.

The AfD wants to strengthen job training. Schools and companies should work together more closely. People training to become master craftsmen should get 90 percent of the costs covered. There should also be courses for further training.

The AfD wants to relieve teachers of administrative work and bring teachers seconded to government agencies back into schools. A college of education is to be established in the state for teacher training. In the short term, suitable career changers are to help.

There are too few teachers in the state. The AfD wants to take office work off teachers. About 400 teachers work in government offices today. They should go back to schools. The state should build its own college for teachers.

The AfD wants to focus teaching more on mathematics, the natural sciences and practical learning. Social studies would again begin only in eighth grade. The party criticizes that political education is emphasized too early and too strongly at the expense of subject knowledge.

The AfD wants more math and science in school. Lessons should be closer to real-life practice. Social studies should only start in grade 8. The AfD thinks there is too much political education in school.

The AfD rejects rules under which ten-year-olds are taught about sexual topics, family diversity, or changing role models. Lessons should mainly reflect how the majority lives. Programs run under the label of gender mainstreaming are to be removed from schools.

The AfD wants to change sex education. Ten-year-olds should not be taught about sexual topics and family diversity. Lessons should follow how most families live. Programs on gender topics should end at schools.

The AfD wants to introduce a preschool with a binding curriculum and uniform standards in the last year of kindergarten. It points out that one in four children shows major language deficits at school entry. In elementary school, the core vocabulary is to grow and joined-up handwriting is to be taught on a binding basis.

The AfD wants a preschool in the last year of kindergarten. It has a fixed curriculum for everyone. Many children speak German poorly when they start school. In elementary school, children should learn more words. They should also write by hand more often.

The AfD wants to keep the school system divided into tracks by ability. Moving between Gymnasium (academic high school), Regionalschule, and special-needs school should depend on grades and proof of performance, not solely on parents' wishes. The party questions the shared orientation stage in grades 5 and 6.

The AfD wants to keep different types of schools. Children should be placed by how well they do. The parents' wish alone should not be enough. Children with weaker grades should take a test for the Gymnasium. Gifted children should get more money for support.

The AfD wants the Abitur (university entrance diploma) to reliably show again that a graduate is ready for university. Regionalschulen (non-academic secondary schools) are to prepare students for vocational training with a stronger practical focus. State funding for adult education centers (Volkshochschulen) is to rise considerably.

The AfD wants a more demanding Abitur. Whoever has it should truly be ready for university. Regionalschulen should prepare students better for job training. Adult education centers should get more money from the state. Schools should also teach how the economy works.

The AfD wants to secure elementary schools close to where children live, especially in rural areas. Independently run schools are to receive fair and reliable funding. The party sees them as part of a diverse school landscape with competition.

The AfD wants to keep elementary schools close to home. This should help villages most of all. Children should have short trips to school. Independent schools should get reliable funding. Independent schools are schools not run by the state.

The AfD wants to keep and further develop special-needs schools (Förderschulen) permanently. It rejects what it sees as blanket inclusion that would lead to the end of these schools. Regular schools are to be equipped so that children with physical disabilities can learn there.

Förderschulen are schools for children who need special support. The AfD wants to keep these schools. It opposes teaching all children together. But children with physical disabilities should be able to attend normal schools.

The AfD wants to secure the political and ideological neutrality of schools and invokes the Beutelsbach Consensus. Teachers should not call on students to vote for particular parties or to attend demonstrations. It rejects programs that it says are directed one-sidedly against certain views or parties.

The AfD wants neutral schools. Teachers should not promote parties. They should also not call for joining protests. The AfD wants to look critically at outside projects. The teacher should be at the center again.

The AfD wants to strengthen math, computer science, natural sciences, and technology from elementary school on. It plans more STEM-friendly schools, internships from lower secondary level, and regional STEM clusters. Dual study programs are to be strengthened as an equally valuable path.

STEM means science, technology, engineering and math. The AfD wants to promote these subjects more. Schools should get better equipment and good teachers. Students should do internships in companies early on. Schools, companies and universities should work together.

The AfD wants to prohibit private cell phone use at school through grade 7 by regulation. Digital learning platforms are to be expanded from grade 5 but must not replace in-person teaching. The party regards artificial intelligence as an aid.

The AfD wants to ban phones at school through grade 7. Exceptions apply only in emergencies or if the teacher allows it. From grade 8, each school decides for itself. Digital learning should not replace lessons in the classroom.

The AfD wants to give teachers more disciplinary powers by law. In cases of violence and drug offenses, students are to be expelled much more quickly. According to the platform, the goal is schools that do not need police operations.

The AfD wants to give teachers more ways to punish. Students should be expelled faster for violence or drugs. Teachers should have more authority again. The AfD thinks schools will then need fewer police visits.

The AfD wants to expand vocational education and reopen more vocational school locations, especially in the east of the state. To do so, it would allow smaller classes. Master craftsmen and industrial foremen would be recruited to teach at vocational schools to reduce canceled lessons and the teacher shortage.

The AfD wants more vocational schools in the state. Classes may be smaller than today. Master craftsmen should teach at these schools. Students should do more internships.

The AfD wants universities to be guided by quality standards rather than graduate numbers and wants to raise their base funding. It prefers a classical, holistic idea of education over the Bologna system. The law degree leading to the state examination would be offered again in Rostock.

The AfD wants to give universities more steady money. Quality should matter, not the number of degrees. Rostock should again offer a law degree with a state exam. Student aid applications should be handled digitally sooner.

The AfD wants to charge tuition fees to students from countries outside the EU. It justifies this with a higher dropout rate in this group and the fact that many return to their home country after graduating.

Students from countries outside the EU should pay to study. The fee would be at least 1,500 euros per semester. The AfD says many of them drop out or leave afterward. It says people who pay try harder.

The AfD wants to preserve care for extremely premature babies at the Dietrich Bonhoeffer hospital in Neubrandenburg. It calls for an exemption from the minimum case number set by the Federal Joint Committee, arguing that the rule leads to long transport distances in a rural state.

Neubrandenburg has a hospital unit for babies born very early. A rule requires at least 25 cases a year for this. The AfD wants an exception to this rule. Otherwise families must travel far to other cities.

The AfD wants a parliamentary committee of inquiry to examine the state's COVID policy. In its view, the government has so far only assessed its own actions. An independent assessment is meant to help avoid mistakes in future epidemics.

The AfD wants to look into the COVID years in the state. A committee in the state parliament should do this. The AfD says the government has only checked itself so far. The state should make fewer mistakes in the next epidemic.

The AfD wants to give local decision-makers legal and financial leeway to develop their own health care solutions. These include regional budgets, closer links between outpatient and hospital care, and municipally run doctors' practices. Municipal medical care centers (MVZ) should only be set up where there are gaps.

The AfD wants new ways to provide health care in rural areas. Regions should be allowed to find their own solutions. Towns should also be able to run doctors' offices. But only in places where doctors are missing.

The AfD wants to prevent hospital closures in rural areas, which it fears will result from the federal hospital reform. Basic care, emergency rooms and maternity units are to be secured statewide through individual budget agreements. The two university hospitals are to be strengthened.

The AfD wants to keep hospitals in rural areas. It fears a federal reform will lead to closures. Emergency rooms and maternity wards should stay everywhere. Special funding deals should pay for this.

The AfD wants to tackle the rural doctor shortage with incentives for young physicians, including a student loan that is paid off through work as a rural doctor. The rules for determining undersupply are to be revised and the position of the Kassenärztliche Vereinigungen (associations of statutory health insurance physicians) questioned. Red tape and documentation duties are to be reduced.

Rural areas do not have enough doctors. The AfD wants to bring young doctors there. They should get a loan for their studies. Those who work as rural doctors do not have to pay it back. Doctors should also have less paperwork.

The AfD wants the state's licensing authorities to strictly apply the nationwide standards for doctors with foreign degrees. In addition, language support is to be offered alongside their work. The program justifies this with patient safety.

Doctors from abroad must speak German well. The AfD wants the authorities to check this strictly. These doctors should also be able to keep learning German on the job. This should keep patients safe.

The AfD wants to give more support to grassroots sports as a form of preventive health care. Physical education in schools is to be preserved. Alcohol and drug prevention is to receive lasting funding and organization.

The AfD wants more support for sports for everyone. It says exercise protects against many illnesses. Sports should stay important in school. Programs against alcohol and drug abuse should get secure funding.

The AfD wants to give priority to care at home and introduce a state care allowance once the state's budget situation allows it. An emergency fund of 2.5 million euros is to support outpatient care services. In training, it wants to reverse the generalist nursing program.

Many old people want to be cared for at home. The AfD wants to support that. Later, the state should pay a care allowance for it. An emergency fund should help care services. Care workers should have less paperwork.

The AfD wants to upgrade the public health service (ÖGD) and organize it more efficiently. It is also to offer pregnancy counseling that the program describes as "life-affirming."

The public health offices should become more important. They should also be better organized. The AfD wants to give them a new task: advising pregnant women. The advice should favor having the child.

The AfD wants to allow labor migration only when domestic options are exhausted and a specific need has been demonstrated. It gives priority to domestic workers and to bringing back skilled people who have left.

The AfD wants to find workers at home first. Skilled people who moved away should come back. Skilled workers from abroad should come only when truly needed. They should not receive welfare benefits.

The AfD wants children with a migration background to be taught first in separate preparatory classes where needed. There they are to learn German and basic social behavior. Only those who can follow lessons linguistically and socially should move to a regular class.

Some children do not speak enough German yet. The AfD wants separate classes for them. There they learn German and rules for getting along. Only after that should they join a normal class.

The AfD wants foreign offenders to lose their right of residence through the criminal verdict itself. For certain serious offenses and a prison sentence of at least one year, deportation with a permanent entry ban would follow automatically.

Foreigners who commit serious crimes should lose their right to stay. The criminal court should decide this in its verdict. This applies from one year in prison. The person must then leave the country. They may never come back.

The AfD wants to press the federal government for effective border protection by all legal and political means. As a last resort, it reserves the option of declaring a statewide freeze on taking in asylum seekers in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

The AfD wants the federal government to protect the borders better. It wants to put pressure on the federal government. As a last step, the state would take in no more asylum seekers. The AfD calls this an intake freeze.

The AfD wants to create a dedicated unit for border protection and returns within the state police. In addition, a police task force against foreign offenders would be established.

The AfD wants a new police unit in the state. It should protect the border and help with deportations. A second group should be added. This group deals with foreign offenders.

The AfD wants to examine changes to the Flüchtlingsaufnahmegesetz (refugee reception law) so that municipalities have a say in housing asylum seekers. Existing municipal accommodation would be scaled back and asylum seekers housed in a few large facilities.

Towns should have a say on shelters for asylum seekers. The AfD wants to change a law for this. Many shelters in towns should close. Asylum seekers should live in a few large shelters. This should save money.

The AfD wants to house people who are required to leave in separate state-run departure centers and to set up the state's own deportation detention facility. It cites the high number of failed deportations in recent years.

Some people must leave Germany. The AfD wants separate housing for them. The state should also get its own detention center for deportations. Dangerous people should wear an electronic ankle monitor.

The AfD wants asylum seekers and people required to leave to receive benefits in kind wherever possible, with no cash at all paid out in the departure centers. Asylum seekers would do unpaid work in municipal shelters. The party says this removes financial incentives for migration and encourages voluntary departure.

The AfD wants to stop giving money to asylum seekers. They should only get things like a bed, food and soap. Asylum seekers should work in their shelters without pay. The AfD says fewer people will come and more will leave.

The AfD wants the protection status of Syrian refugees in the state reviewed and revoked on a large scale, and wants the state to actively prepare their return. It points to the changed situation in Syria and argues that refugee protection is granted only temporarily.

The AfD wants Syrian refugees to go back to Syria. Their protection in Germany should end. The AfD says the situation in Syria has changed. Criminals from Syria should leave especially fast.

The AfD wants male unaccompanied minor asylum seekers aged 16 and older to be housed, as a rule, in shared shelters rather than in youth welfare facilities. It also wants age checks for all unaccompanied foreigners who claim to be minors.

Some young people come to Germany without parents. Today they mostly live in youth welfare homes. The AfD wants boys aged 16 and up to live in shared shelters. Their age should also always be checked.

The AfD wants to suspend family reunification as a general rule, review Ukrainian benefit recipients and return refugees whose claim to protection has ended. Kindergeld (child benefit) for children living abroad would be paid only at the rate usual in that country. The party argues that immigrants draw social benefits at a disproportionately high rate.

The AfD wants to stop refugees from bringing their families to Germany. People from Ukraine who get benefits should be checked. There should be less child benefit for children living abroad. The AfD says too many immigrants get money from the state.

The AfD wants to abolish the state's Integration and Participation Act and replace it with a migration regulation act. State funding for groups such as the Flüchtlingsrat MV (refugee council) would end. The party accuses the state government of seeking to replace a society shaped by German culture with a multicultural one.

The state has a law on integration and participation. The AfD wants to get rid of this law. A new law should put the interests of Germans first. Groups like the refugee council should get no more money from the state.

The AfD wants to strictly limit and reduce Muslim immigration to Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Islamic associations would be required to record and report extremist tendencies and individuals in their circles. The party argues that Islam, in its view, is not a secularly constituted religious community.

The AfD wants fewer Muslims to come to the state. Islamic associations should set up their own reporting offices. There they should report radical people from their circles. The AfD says the associations must help with public safety.

The AfD wants to move in the Bundesrat for the repeal of the Selbstbestimmungsgesetz (Self-Determination Act), because it views sex as a biological fact. Puberty blockers used to begin a gender transition are to be banned, and related treatments allowed only from age 18.

The AfD says there are only two sexes. It wants to end the Self-Determination Act. This law lets people change their sex entry at the registry office. Children should not get drugs that stop puberty. Such treatments should only be allowed from age 18.

The AfD wants to issue a decree requiring state agencies and public educational institutions to write only according to the rules of the Council for German Orthography. Gender asterisks, colons and the internal capital I would no longer be used there. The party regards these spellings as cultural paternalism.

The AfD wants to ban gender-inclusive language in public offices, schools and universities. This means, for example, asterisks or colons inside words. Only the official spelling rules should apply there. The AfD says the German language is part of the culture.

The AfD wants to bring gas power plants to the state so that stable, affordable electricity attracts industry and AI data centers. It counts on a reopening of Nord Stream and keeps a return to nuclear power open as an option.

The AfD wants new gas power plants in the state. They should deliver reliable and cheap electricity. The Nord Stream gas pipeline should open again. This should bring factories and large data centers to the state.

The AfD wants wind and solar plants to compete on the market without priority grid access and without permanent subsidies. In the program's view, current energy policy rests on market interventions that drive up electricity prices and destabilize the grid.

Wind and solar power get help from the state today. The AfD wants to end this help. The plants should pay off on their own. The AfD says the help makes power expensive.

The AfD wants to press the federal government to repeal or fundamentally rewrite the Windenergieflächenbedarfsgesetz (wind energy land requirements act) so the state can set its own energy goals. Environmental reviews for wind projects are also to become stricter. The program cites harm to nature, landscape, tourism and residents.

A federal law says how much land must go to wind turbines. The AfD wants to end or change this law. The state should decide for itself. Wind projects should get stricter checks. The AfD says wind turbines harm nature and neighbors.

The AfD rejects a large-scale buildout of ground-mounted solar on agricultural land. Good arable soil is to remain reserved for food production. Solar installations should go primarily on rooftops and on land that is already sealed.

The AfD does not want big solar parks on fields. Good soil should grow food. Solar panels should go on roofs. Parking lots and business sites are also meant for them.

The AfD does not want to keep the liquefied natural gas terminal off the island of Rügen permanently but to replace it with pipeline gas. It says the facility burdens nature, fishing, coastal protection and tourism. Once alternatives are in place, it is to be shut down.

There is a terminal for liquid gas off Rügen. The AfD does not want to keep it forever. Gas should come through pipelines again. Then the terminal can be shut down. The AfD wants to protect the coast this way.

The AfD wants to quickly use the undamaged line of Nord Stream 2 and have the destroyed pipelines repaired. Cheap pipeline gas is meant to lower energy prices and secure industrial jobs. The attack on the pipelines is to be fully investigated.

Nord Stream is a set of gas pipelines under the Baltic Sea. An attack damaged them. The AfD wants to repair and use them again. The gas should make energy cheaper. The attack should be fully cleared up.

The AfD calls for restarting shut-down nuclear power plants quickly and wants to work in the Bundesrat toward ending the nuclear phase-out. Within the state, possible sites are to be examined and small modular reactors co-developed. It says nuclear power delivers electricity around the clock without CO2 and can stabilize prices.

The AfD wants to use nuclear power again. Closed plants should run again. The state should check where new plants could stand. The AfD also wants to support small new reactors. It says nuclear power is safe and cheap.

Until new nuclear plants deliver electricity, the AfD wants to secure supply through gas-fired power plants, electricity imports and biogas plants. No additional wind turbines are to be built for this.

New nuclear plants take time. Until then the AfD wants power from gas plants. Power from nearby countries should be added. Biogas plants should also make power. The AfD does not want new wind turbines for this.

The AfD wants everyone to decide on their own heating system. Gas and heating oil are to remain equal options, and it rejects modernization mandates and rules favoring heat pumps.

The AfD wants everyone to pick their own heating. Gas and oil should stay allowed. No one should be forced to rebuild. The state should not require heat pumps.

The AfD wants to promote deep geothermal heat as a heat source for municipalities where geology and economics allow. Permitting is to become simpler. It says the state has some of the best geothermal potential in Germany.

There is hot water deep in the ground. It can be used for heating. The AfD wants to support this for towns. But it has to pay off. Permits should become simpler.

The AfD wants energy that households and businesses produce for their own use to stay free of taxes and levies. Subsidies already promised for existing plants would continue, but new energy policy should work without permanent subsidies.

Some people and companies make their own power. The AfD says they should pay no taxes on it. Old plants keep the state money they were promised. New energy should work without lasting help from the state.

The AfD rejects wind turbines close to homes and large solar arrays on open land. Every project would be reviewed individually on site, taking residents' concerns into account. The platform justifies this as protecting home ownership.

The AfD does not want wind turbines close to homes. It also does not want big solar fields on open land. Each project should be checked locally, one by one. Residents should have a say.

The AfD wants to make greater use of lakes, rivers, and coasts for tourism, sports, and business. Restoration of waterways to a natural state should not hinder this use. Locks and infrastructure would be preserved on smaller waterways as well.

The AfD wants to use lakes and rivers more for vacations and sports. Nature protection should not block this. Locks should be kept. There should be charging stations for electric boats.

The AfD wants to review the state government's decision to stop accepting certain classes of waste at the Ihlenberg landfill at the end of 2035. The site is to keep operating until an alternative location in northern Germany has been decided. The platform calls the phase-out wrong and politically motivated.

The Ihlenberg landfill is set to stop taking some kinds of waste after 2035. The AfD wants to look at this decision again. The landfill should stay open longer. That applies until another site in northern Germany is found.

The AfD wants forest protection to take priority over expanding renewable energy and wants to upgrade forestry because of demand for timber. It is critical of converting forests to continuous-cover stands because they yield less wood. The platform regards hunting as nature and animal protection.

The AfD wants to protect forests. Forests should matter more than new wind and solar plants. Forests should also give enough wood for building. For the AfD, hunting protects nature.

The AfD wants a clear limit on the wolf population and the swift removal of wolf hybrids. Returning species are to be given room but not allowed to spread unchecked across cultivated land. Insect protection is to rest on research rather than on blaming agriculture.

The AfD does not want too many wolves. Wolf-dog mixes should be removed quickly. Animals like bison and elk should get space. But they should not spread everywhere. Researchers should study insects more closely.

The AfD wants to strengthen water monitoring, sewage treatment plants and advisory services for farmers. The aim is to prevent pollution before it occurs. Groundwater is to be protected from overuse in the long term.

The AfD wants to keep water clean. Rivers and lakes should be checked more closely. Sewage plants should get better. Farmers should get more advice. People should not use too much groundwater.

The AfD treats owner-run and family farms as the model for agriculture and wants to give them more entrepreneurial leeway instead of oversight. The nitrate monitoring network is to be made much larger and more representative so that fertilizer restrictions are less burdensome.

The AfD wants to support farms owned by families. Farmers should be freer to decide for themselves. There should be more places that measure nitrate. Nitrate is a substance from fertilizer in groundwater. This should mean fewer strict fertilizer rules for farmers.

The AfD wants to deliberately rebuild slaughter facilities in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern so that animal transports become shorter. Higher animal welfare standards are to come only with economically workable transition periods and be reflected in the prices farmers receive.

The AfD wants more slaughterhouses in the state again. Then animals do not have to travel so far. Farmers should get time to switch to better barns. Farmers should get higher prices for that. The AfD rejects slaughter without stunning.

The AfD wants the state to be able to intervene in the farmland market through rights of first refusal in order to limit concentration among a few owners. Land is to go preferentially to farms from the region, and young farmers are to get more support.

Farmland should not belong to a few big owners. So the state should be allowed to buy land first. Land should go mainly to farmers from the area. Young farmers should get more help.

The AfD wants to help producers register regional specialties for the EU's origin labels. The state label "Natürlich aus MV" (Naturally from MV) is to become visible everywhere in retail. The rural bioeconomy is also to grow as an industry.

The AfD wants food from the region to be better known. Producers should get help applying for an EU label. The label protects the name from copies. The sign "Natürlich aus MV" should be seen in more stores.

The AfD commits to gillnet fishing in coastal waters and relies on research and cooperation with fishers rather than bans. State-owned waters are to be leased exclusively to fishers from the area.

The AfD wants to keep fishing in the state. Fishers should still be allowed to use gillnets. These are nets that stay fixed in the water. Only fishers from the area should lease the state's waters.

The AfD wants free school transport that can also cover trips to a school outside a student's local catchment area. To this end, a statewide integrated transit network is to be created together with counties, cities, and transit operators.

The AfD wants students to ride to school for free. This could also apply to schools farther away. Buses should not be overcrowded. There should be one transit network for the whole state.

The AfD wants to abolish carbon pricing on fuel entirely and permanently raise the Pendlerpauschale (commuter tax allowance) by a significant amount. It argues that many people in rural Mecklenburg-Vorpommern depend on their cars and that mobility must stay affordable.

There is a CO2 charge on gasoline and diesel. The AfD wants to get rid of it. People who drive far to work should save more on taxes. Cars should stay affordable for everyone.

The AfD wants to make public transit more attractive and upgrade the rail network across the state. Buses and trains would be better coordinated, the transit association more closely integrated, and key lines expanded.

Buses and trains should fit together better. The AfD wants to expand rail lines. There should be a fast link from Berlin through Schwerin to Copenhagen. Small rural stations should stay.

The AfD wants to commit more budget funds to repairing, maintaining, and building roads and to simplify planning and permitting. Sidewalks and bike paths would also be expanded. For the state's airports, it wants to launch an open debate about their future.

The AfD wants to spend more money on roads. Planning and building should get easier. Sidewalks and bike paths should get better too. The AfD wants a new talk about the state's airports.

The AfD wants to make telemedicine a fixed part of standard care and to use artificial intelligence as a tool in health care. It rejects a central database for treatment data. Instead, emergency data should be stored directly on the health insurance card.

The AfD wants more treatment by video and internet. Computer programs should help doctors but not replace them. The AfD does not want one big store of patient data. Key data for emergencies should be on the insurance card.

The AfD wants to speed up the rollout of fiber and mobile networks, giving priority to rural areas. A digital fund would support businesses, and dealings with public offices would move online.

The AfD wants faster internet and better cell phone coverage. Villages should come first. Companies should get money for new computer technology. People should be able to handle office matters online.

The AfD wants to keep the target of 6,200 state police officers, expand training in Güstrow and relieve officers of administrative work. Tasers would be introduced across the force. Volunteer security helpers and more body and vehicle cameras would be examined.

The state police should have 6,200 officers. The AfD wants more experts against crime on the internet. Officers should do less office work. All should get tasers. The AfD will look into more cameras and volunteer helpers.

The AfD wants to counter blanket accusations of racism against the police publicly and through legal means. Documentation requirements in the state's Security and Public Order Act (SOG) would be repealed immediately. Associations that, in the AfD's view, accuse the police of racism without evidence would lose public funding.

The AfD wants to protect the police from accusations. It wants to remove some record-keeping duties from the police law. Some groups would get no more money from the state. Police leaders should have field experience themselves.

The AfD wants crime statistics to include more information on offenses by foreigners and by Germans with multiple citizenships. A situation report by the State Criminal Police Office on crime in the context of immigration would be added. Regular surveys would also capture unreported crime.

The AfD wants to show more numbers on crimes by foreigners. A suspect's second passport should also be named. There should be a special report on immigration and crime. Citizens should say in surveys which crimes they have experienced.

The AfD wants to introduce a state-funded pension supplement for long-serving volunteer firefighters and give volunteers in other aid organizations largely the same status as the fire service. Attacks on emergency personnel would be prosecuted more severely. The siren network would be rebuilt and cooperation with the Bundeswehr deepened.

Volunteer firefighters should get an extra pension from the state. Helpers from other groups should have similar rights. People who attack helpers should be punished strictly. The AfD wants to set up more sirens again.

The AfD seeks a fundamental reform of the state's Verfassungsschutz (domestic intelligence agency) and does not rule out a complete reorganization. The agency would concentrate on cybercrime, counterespionage and political militancy. The party accuses the agency of failing to prevent threats and of politically one-sided priorities.

The Verfassungsschutz is a secret service inside Germany. The AfD wants to rebuild it. It should deal with spies, internet crime and political violence. The AfD says the agency goes after critics of the government today.

The AfD wants to prevent citizens from being declared unreliable under gun law because of statements critical of the government. The existing requirements for legal gun ownership would remain. The program sees the tightening of gun law as distrust of law-abiding citizens.

People who own a gun legally need a permit. The AfD says some lose it because of their opinions. The AfD wants to stop that. The other rules for a permit would stay the same.

The AfD wants prosecutors and courts to apply criminal law consistently and without any appearance of political bias. The special criminal protection for politicians against insults would be dropped, proceedings would be faster and victims better protected.

The AfD wants courts to punish crimes consistently. Politics should play no role in this. There should be no special rule for insults against politicians. Simple criminal cases should move faster. Victims should get more protection.

The AfD wants to prosecute child sexual abuse and the spread of abuse material with every means the rule of law allows. It rejects blanket data retention without cause and relies instead on the quick-freeze procedure and AI-assisted analysis of data.

The AfD wants to prosecute child abuse firmly. But it does not want to store everyone's data without a reason. Police should only secure data when there is a suspicion. A judge must approve this. Computer programs should help investigators with their work.

The AfD wants to use the Bundesrat to make children criminally responsible from age 12 instead of 14. It justifies this with a rise in violent acts by children and with the protection of other children and young people.

Today a court can only punish children from age 14. The AfD wants to lower this age to 12. It says children commit more and more violent acts. Other children should be better protected.

The AfD wants to use legislation to better protect doctors, medical staff and care workers from violence. According to the program, more than half of the physicians in the state have experienced violence from patients. The party sees this as a threat to patient care as well.

Doctors and care workers are sometimes threatened or attacked. The AfD wants to protect them better. There should be a law for this. The AfD says violence also puts patient care at risk.

The AfD wants to noticeably reduce the length of court proceedings, especially in civil and criminal courts and in administrative proceedings. In its view, overly long proceedings damage citizens' trust in the rule of law.

Courts often take a very long time. The AfD wants cases to finish faster. Very important cases should come first. This should help citizens trust the state more.

The AfD wants judges to be chosen by an independent judicial selection committee, because it fears party-political influence when the government appoints them. It also wants to review the court structure reform to bring courts closer to citizens, organize civil and criminal courts in three tiers, and introduce a law on neighbor relations.

Today the government appoints the judges in the state. The AfD wants an independent committee to do this. Courts should be easy for people to reach. The AfD also wants a law for disputes between neighbors.

The AfD wants the federal and state flags to fly permanently in front of state agencies, courts and schools. Other flags, such as the rainbow flag, would be banned in front of public institutions because the party sees them as a breach of state neutrality.

Two flags should always fly at state offices, courts and schools. These are the German flag and the state flag. The AfD wants to ban other flags there. This includes the rainbow flag.

The AfD wants to strengthen binding referendums on the Swiss model and lower the hurdles for them. A petition signed by five percent of eligible voters would trigger a vote at state, county and municipal level, and there would be no turnout quorum.

People should vote on laws themselves more often. Fewer signatures should be needed for this. Five out of 100 eligible voters would be enough. There should be no minimum number of participants. The model is Switzerland.

The AfD wants state money to go only to organizations that commit in writing to loyalty to the constitution and political neutrality. Funding for associations and initiatives it classifies as left-wing or far-left networks would end.

Associations often get money from the state. The AfD wants a new rule for this. Associations must promise in writing to be politically neutral. They must also support the constitution. Associations the AfD sees as left-wing should get no more money.

The AfD wants to give cities and towns more money without strings attached through the municipal revenue-sharing system, rather than through individual funding programs. New tasks or higher standards imposed on municipalities would be fully paid for. The party argues that local people know best what their community needs.

The AfD wants cities and towns to decide about their own money. They should get less money with fixed rules attached. If the state gives towns new tasks, it should pay all the costs. The AfD says local people know best.

The AfD wants to terminate the NDR state treaty and the Medienstaatsvertrag (interstate media treaty) and abolish the broadcasting fee. Today's public broadcasting would be replaced by a small "Grundfunk" (basic broadcaster) limited to information, education, culture and regional coverage.

The AfD wants to abolish the broadcasting fee. The state should end the treaties for the public broadcaster NDR. There should only be a small basic broadcaster. It should offer news, education, culture and regional reports.

The AfD rejects the plan to privatize the Redefin state stud farm and wants to keep it in public hands. The platform justifies this with the stud's importance as a cultural asset and part of the state's history. At the same time, it is to be strengthened economically.

The Redefin state stud is an old horse farm owned by the state. There is a plan to sell it. The AfD is against that. The farm should stay with the state. More visitors should bring it more money.

The AfD wants to anchor the protection of historic monuments in the constitution so it carries more weight, especially against energy projects. Funding for historic buildings and resources for the state heritage office would increase. Public buildings would follow a regional architectural style.

The AfD wants to protect old buildings better. Protecting monuments should be written into the constitution. Then it counts more when energy plants are planned. The state should give more money for old houses. Memorials for dead soldiers should also get money.

The AfD wants to give archaeological finds more public visibility and open up the megalithic tombs for rural tourism. It supports a state archaeological museum but rejects the current design and calls for a more cost-efficient solution.

The state has very old tombs made of huge stones. The AfD wants more tourists to visit them. It also wants to build a museum for old finds. It rejects the current plan for the museum. The museum should cost less.

The AfD wants cultural funding to focus on German and European culture, especially Low German folk art and the Plattdeutsch language. Projects it considers ideologically motivated would be reviewed. It backs the Theaterpakt MV (state theater agreement) and wants to secure the work of music schools.

The AfD mainly wants to support German and European culture. Plattdeutsch, the Low German language, matters most to it. It sees some projects as too political. It wants to review them. Theaters, orchestras, and music schools should stay.

The AfD wants to keep and expand the federal elite sports training centers in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern permanently. It points to the successes of the athletes who train there. Career models that combine top-level sports with school, vocational training or the Bundeswehr would be strengthened.

The state has important training sites for top athletes. Some are only safe until 2028. The AfD wants to keep them for good. Athletes should be able to combine sports with school or a job.

The AfD wants to give volunteer work more material recognition and relieve clubs of red tape. The Ehrenamtskarte (volunteer card) would offer more benefits. Local heritage clubs, the Low German language, and the renovation of sports facilities would also receive support.

Many people help for free, for example in the fire brigade or a sports club. The AfD wants to give them more benefits. Clubs should have less paperwork. Heritage clubs and sports halls should get money.