AfD: program for the 2026 Saxony-Anhalt state election

The AfD wants the state's economic policy to center on small and mid-sized companies rather than subsidies for large foreign corporations. Disadvantages of the location are to be removed and new advantages created. The party says this would start a re-industrialization.

The AfD wants to help small and mid-sized companies in the state. It does not want to give money to big foreign corporations. The state should become a better place for business. Fewer companies should go bankrupt or leave. More new companies should start.

The AfD wants to examine whether special economic zones with defined boundaries can be set up in structurally weak parts of Saxony-Anhalt. It points to other countries that, in its account, achieve good economic results with them.

The AfD wants to look into special economic zones. These are areas with special rules for companies. They would be in regions with a weak economy. The AfD says other countries do well with them.

The AfD wants to make training for the Meister (master craftsman) qualification free of charge and introduce a bonus graded by age. The goal is for more tradespeople to earn the qualification and later take over businesses.

The AfD wants master craftsman training to cost nothing. There would also be a bonus. Young master craftsmen would get the most money. This way more tradespeople should become masters. Later they should take over businesses.

The AfD wants to support small and medium-sized businesses that invest in technology, digitalization, and artificial intelligence. This is meant to modernize Saxony-Anhalt as a business location.

The AfD wants to help small and medium-sized companies. The companies should invest in modern technology. That includes digital tools and artificial intelligence. This should make the state's economy more modern.

The AfD wants to create a quality label for products from Saxony-Anhalt and back it with a marketing campaign. It is meant to highlight the variety of local products.

The AfD wants a label for products from Saxony-Anhalt. A label is a mark on the product. It shows where the product comes from. Companies can use it if they want. There would also be advertising for it.

The AfD wants to develop a new tourism strategy as part of a campaign called #deutschdenken ("think German"). Tourism is meant to grow as an economic factor for the largely rural state and make greater use of its culture and history.

The AfD wants more tourists to come to Saxony-Anhalt. There would be a new plan for this. The plan is part of a campaign called #deutschdenken. The state's culture and history should play a big role. Tourism should bring jobs and income.

The AfD wants families to again take on more tasks that the state handles today. To that end, relatives would find it easier to act on behalf of family members and would receive advice. The program argues that the state has overextended itself with these tasks.

The AfD wants families to help themselves more. The state should take on fewer tasks. Relatives should find it easier to handle things for family members. For example, at a government office or when looking for a nursing home.

The AfD wants to pay apprentices a €1,500 grant toward a driver's license and introduce bonuses for especially good final grades. The aim is to make vocational training more attractive and keep young workers in the state. The party wants to address the skilled-labor shortage with local young people rather than immigration.

The AfD wants to give apprentices money. They would get 1,500 euros for a driver's license. Those with very good final grades would get a bonus. Young people should stay in Saxony-Anhalt. The AfD wants skilled workers from the state, not from abroad.

The AfD wants a state law that bars municipalities from taxing single-use packaging for food and drinks. It sees the tax as a burden on citizens, restaurants, retail and skilled trades. It says the administrative effort is out of proportion to the revenue.

Some cities want a tax on throwaway packaging for food and drinks. The AfD is against it. It wants to ban this tax in the whole state. It says the tax makes things cost more. It also means a lot of work for companies and offices.

The AfD wants to use the Bundesrat to lower the electricity tax for private households from 2.05 to 0.1 cents per kilowatt-hour. The tax would also be cut for all businesses. The aim is to relieve low-income residents and stop the loss of industry and jobs.

People pay a tax on electricity. The AfD wants to cut this tax sharply. It should be as low as the EU allows. This should apply to homes and to all companies. People with little money would then pay less.

The AfD wants to use the Bundesrat to get the energy tax on gasoline and diesel lowered to the minimum the EU allows. This is meant mainly to relieve commuters. The platform points to the high share of taxes and levies in fuel prices.

The AfD wants to make gasoline and diesel cheaper. To do this, the tax on fuel should drop sharply. It should only be as high as the EU requires at minimum. This should help people who drive to work.

The AfD wants to guarantee every municipality a binding minimum level of funding and to pay down old short-term cash loans through a special program. Municipal fiscal equalization and state funding programs would be restructured so that small rural communities are not worse off than cities.

The AfD wants to give towns and villages more money. Every municipality should get a fixed minimum amount. A special program should reduce old municipal debts. Small villages should no longer get less funding than big cities.

The AfD wants an across-the-board spending cut of at least ten percent in all ministries, fewer ministries, and a smaller workforce. It also wants to lower the government spending ratio and switch the state budget to commercial accounting. The program justifies this with sharply increased administrative costs.

The AfD wants the state to spend less money on administration. Every ministry should cut at least ten percent. There should be fewer ministries. The number of state employees should also go down step by step.

The AfD wants to lower the property transfer tax (Grunderwerbsteuer) in Saxony-Anhalt from 5 to 2.5 percent. The aim is to make buying a home easier, which the party sees as a basis for financial freedom.

People who buy a house or an apartment pay a tax. The AfD wants to cut this tax in half. Then buying a home costs less.

The AfD wants to abolish small taxes that raise little revenue, arguing that they cause a lot of red tape. It also promises not to introduce any new levies or raise taxes in the state.

Some taxes bring the state little money. But they cause a lot of work. The AfD wants to end these taxes. It also promises that the state will get no new taxes.

The AfD wants to review every item of state spending and cut those it considers unnecessary. The budget would be organized by service areas with measurable targets, so that it becomes visible what the money achieves.

The AfD wants to check every expense of the state. Expenses that are not needed should go. The budget should show what the state spends money on. It should also show what the money achieves.

The AfD wants to push at the federal level for the state to stop collecting the church tax on behalf of the churches. It sees this as a privilege that burdens the administration and is no longer justified.

Today the state collects the church tax for the churches. The AfD wants to stop that. The churches should collect their money themselves. The AfD says this takes work off public offices.

The AfD wants to let the state audit office (Landesrechnungshof) examine how state money is used all the way down to the final recipient. This would mainly affect welfare associations and social enterprises, which the party says have so far faced little oversight.

The state audit office checks how the state spends money. The AfD wants to give it more rights. It should also check groups that get money from the state. The AfD wants to stop misuse of tax money this way.

The AfD wants to stop creating special funds (Sondervermögen) and dissolve existing ones, which it regards as hidden debt. A budget transparency law would ban lump-sum savings targets, and the debt brake would apply without exceptions.

A special fund is a pot of money outside the normal budget. The AfD says these are hidden debts. It wants to close these funds. A new law should make the budget clear and honest. The state should take on no new debt.

The AfD wants to restructure the state's revenue-sharing law (Finanzausgleichsgesetz) so that cities and towns receive more money they can use freely. New tasks the state assigns to municipalities would be paid for automatically and in full.

The state gives money to cities and towns. The AfD wants them to get more money. They should decide for themselves how to spend it. If the state gives them new tasks, it should also pay for them.

The AfD wants to offer young parents a subsidized loan for a home of their own. Part of the debt would be forgiven for each child born afterward. The goal is for more German families in Saxony-Anhalt to own their homes.

The AfD wants to help parents buy a home. They should get a cheap loan. For each new child, they have to pay back less. This way, more German families should own a home.

The AfD wants to secure the preservation of older buildings in Saxony-Anhalt's town centers. The platform proposes loans on special terms, fewer building rules, and a training program for do-it-yourselfers. It argues that rising construction costs combined with low rents make renovation unprofitable.

The AfD wants to save old buildings in towns. Owners should get cheap loans for repairs. There should be fewer building rules. Owners should be able to take courses. There they learn to do simple repair work themselves.

The AfD wants the state to once again match federal funds for social housing one-to-one and to provide money for housing and urban development programs. This is meant above all to let municipal housing companies renovate and create affordable, low-barrier apartments.

The AfD wants to spend more money on low-cost housing. The state should pay as much as the federal government does. Municipal housing companies should use the money to renovate apartments. There should be more barrier-free apartments for older people.

The AfD wants its family policy to lead to more children being born in the state. Marriage between a man and a woman with children is to be the guiding model and receive special support. The party sees children, not immigration, as the state's future.

The AfD wants more children to be born in Saxony-Anhalt. Marriage between a man and a woman with children should be the model. The state should give this kind of marriage extra support. The AfD says children are the future, not immigrants.

The AfD wants to introduce a one-time payment at birth and a monthly state-level child allowance. Both are meant to ease the burden on parents and especially strengthen families with several children. One condition is that at least one parent holds German citizenship.

The AfD wants to give parents money when a child is born. The first and second child bring 2,000 euros each. From the third child on, it is 4,000 euros. There is also a monthly family allowance from the state. One parent must be German.

The AfD wants abortion to remain regulated in the criminal code and would oppose federal initiatives to change that in the Bundesrat. Mandatory pregnancy counseling would in future include an ultrasound and a written list of available support. The program justifies this with the protection of unborn life.

The AfD wants abortion to stay in criminal law. Women must go to counseling before an abortion. In future, this should include an ultrasound exam. Women should also get a list of available help.

The AfD wants health insurers to fully cover treatments such as artificial insemination as a standard benefit. Until then, the state would step in with its own support. Childless couples would also find it easier to adopt.

Some couples cannot have children. Treatment for this costs a lot of money. The AfD wants health insurers to pay for all of it. Until then, the state should help. Couples without children should also be able to adopt more easily.

The AfD wants to declare the family of father, mother and children a social policy goal and put it at the center of campaigns and education. The state would neither promote nor fund other ways of life. The program argues that children come only from the union of a man and a woman.

The AfD sees the family of father, mother and children as the model. The state should promote this kind of family. This should also happen in schools. The state should not promote other ways of living. It should not fund them either.

The AfD wants to require social workers, childcare staff and those who train them to be strictly politically neutral. Associations that the platform says take part in agitation would lose public funding and tax benefits.

The AfD wants new rules for childcare staff and social workers. They must be politically neutral at work. This means they should not pass on political opinions. Some associations would no longer get money from the state.

The AfD wants to make nurseries and kindergartens free of charge starting with the first child, permanently paid for by the state. Lunch in nurseries, daycare and schools would also be free. The platform argues that children, as future contributors, keep the social insurance systems going.

The AfD wants nurseries and kindergartens to cost nothing. This would apply from the first child. The state of Saxony-Anhalt would pay for it. Lunch at daycare and school would also be free.

The AfD wants to give families free admission to castles, palaces and museums through a so-called Stolz-Pass ("pride pass"). In addition, a state program would let every child up to age 18 take part in a sports club at no cost.

The AfD wants to create a pass for families. It is called the Stolz-Pass, which means pride pass. With it, families can visit museums and castles for free. Children would also be able to join a sports club for free.

The AfD wants to work toward establishing a chair of population studies at the University of Halle. It would research the causes of the declining birth rate so that, in the party's view, the state can counteract it effectively.

The AfD wants a new chair at the University of Halle. A chair is a permanent post for research and teaching. Experts there should study why fewer children are born. The AfD wants to find ways to raise the number of births.

The AfD wants to ban the open concept in all daycare centers in the state, a model in which fixed groups are dissolved and children choose their own activities. In its view, children are less well supported and less prepared for elementary school under this model. Reading aloud would also get more weight in preschool education.

Some daycare centers have no fixed groups. The children choose what they do. This is called the open concept. The AfD wants to ban it. It also wants more reading aloud in daycare and in families.

The AfD wants to relieve schools of every task it does not consider educational, including care services, integration and inclusion. Teaching would return to traditional methods, with the teacher as an authority. The party sees this as the way out of what it describes as decades of falling educational standards.

The AfD wants schools to only teach knowledge. Children should above all learn to read, write and do math. Integration and inclusion would no longer be a job for schools. Inclusion means children with and without disabilities learn together. Teachers should have more authority again.

The AfD wants a school system divided by performance and rejects steps toward a single comprehensive school. The Gymnasium (academic-track high school) would again be the school that leads to university, attended by no more than a quarter of each age group. In the party's view, higher demands there would raise standards across all school types.

The AfD wants different types of schools for different levels of ability. At most 25 percent of children should go to the Gymnasium. That is the school that leads to university. The final exam should become harder. The party will look at bringing back two other school types.

The AfD wants to make hands-on trades education a fixed part of everyday school life. Students would discover their practical talents early, and the skilled trades would gain more young recruits.

The AfD wants more skilled-trades learning in school. Students should build and repair things themselves. This way they can find their talents early. The party says the state needs more tradespeople.

The AfD wants the elementary school's recommendation after fourth grade to again be binding in deciding which type of school a child attends. It argues that teachers can usually judge a child's performance better than parents.

After fourth grade, the school recommends a type of school. Today parents can still decide themselves. The AfD wants the recommendation to count again. Tests for all children would help with this. Good students could switch schools later.

The AfD wants to immediately end joint classes for children with and without disabilities and expand special-needs schools (Förderschulen) instead. The platform argues that inclusion has failed because disabled children get too little attention there and lessons are slowed down.

Today, children with and without disabilities often learn together. This is called inclusion. The AfD wants to end inclusion. Children with disabilities should go to special schools. There should be more of these schools.

The AfD wants to tighten grading standards at all types of schools so that good grades are awarded less often. In addition, statewide student competitions with prizes and public honors are meant to strengthen a culture of achievement.

The AfD says there are too many good grades. It wants stricter rules for grades. Students should only pass a test with half of the points. There should also be contests with prizes for students.

The AfD wants to revise history curricula and put more emphasis on the 19th century and the founding of the German nation-state in 1871. In addition, hands-on local studies (Heimatkunde) are meant to teach children how food is produced.

The AfD wants to change history lessons. Students should learn more about the 19th century. The German Empire of 1871 is important to the AfD. There should also be more lessons about the home region. Children should learn where their food comes from.

The AfD wants to bar teachers from voicing their own political opinions in class and to end state funding for the program "Schule gegen Rassismus – Schule mit Courage" (School Against Racism – School With Courage). The platform argues that students are currently being influenced in a politically one-sided way.

Teachers should no longer share their political opinions in class. They should only lead the discussion. The state should also stop paying for a program against racism in schools. The AfD says this program is politically one-sided.

The AfD wants to write education in love of homeland and the German people into the state constitution and the school law. Public schools would fly the national flag every school day, and the national anthem would be sung together at school ceremonies.

The AfD wants to change the state constitution. It should say that schools teach children to love their homeland and the German people. The German flag should fly at school every school day. At school events, everyone should sing the national anthem.

The AfD wants to keep digital media out of elementary schools and use them only selectively at secondary schools; smartphones would be banned through grade 10. Instead, computer science would become a required subject from grade 8 so that students understand how the devices work.

Elementary schools should not use digital media in class. Later, schools should use them only sometimes. Phones should be banned up to grade 10. In return, all students should learn computer science from grade 8.

The AfD wants to secure and, where possible, expand Russian language teaching in Saxony-Anhalt and restart the student exchanges with Russia that have been suspended since 2022. It cites an interest in good relations with Russia and rejects the current policy toward the country.

The AfD wants to keep Russian classes in schools. There should be more of them if possible. Students should be able to go on exchanges to Russia again. The AfD wants good relations with Russia.

The AfD wants at least four hours of physical education per week in every grade and school type, with swimming as a fixed part of PE. It cites the benefits of exercise for children and a rising number of fatal drowning accidents.

All students should have at least four hours of sports each week. Swimming should always be part of sports class. Every child should learn to swim. The AfD says more and more people die in swimming accidents.

The AfD wants the Bundesjugendspiele (national school sports day) in elementary schools to be held as a graded competition again. The platform argues that this is how children come to enjoy achievement.

The Bundesjugendspiele are a sports day at schools. Since 2023, elementary schools no longer hold it as a contest. The AfD wants the contest back. It says children then enjoy doing well.

The AfD wants to address the teacher shortage by bringing back retired teachers, recruiting teachers nationwide and making the job more attractive through less bureaucracy. In addition, principals would be allowed to form larger classes when many lessons are canceled, and a new college of education would train elementary and lower secondary teachers.

Saxony-Anhalt does not have enough teachers. The AfD wants to ask retired teachers to work again. It wants to bring teachers from all over Germany. Teachers should have less paperwork. If many lessons are canceled, classes may get bigger.

The AfD wants to lower minimum enrollment numbers so that small elementary schools can stay open. The platform argues that otherwise up to half of the elementary schools in some districts would be at risk and rural areas would decline further.

The AfD wants to keep small elementary schools. A school should be safe with just 40 children. Today it needs 60 children. This way villages can keep their schools.

The AfD wants to replace compulsory school attendance with a duty to be educated, so that parents can also teach their children at home. It justifies this with the primacy of parents in matters of upbringing and its criticism that schools educate children politically.

Today all children must go to school. The AfD wants to change that. Parents should be allowed to teach their children at home. These children must then take a test twice a year. A child who learns too little must go back to school.

The AfD wants to take decisions on teaching matters away from schools' participatory bodies and hand them to the ministry. Teaching materials would be set uniformly statewide and lent to students free of charge.

Schools have a body called the Gesamtkonferenz. Teachers, parents and students have a say there. The AfD wants only the ministry to decide on teaching and books. All schools in the state should use the same books. Children should borrow the books for free.

The AfD wants children of refugees and asylum seekers to be taught permanently in separate classes. There they would learn content from the schools of their home countries, because the platform regards their stay as only temporary.

Children of refugees should go to school. But the AfD wants separate classes for them. There they should learn what children learn in their home country. The AfD says these children stay in Germany only for a while.

The AfD rejects faith-based Islamic religious instruction in Saxony-Anhalt's schools. It cites the small share of Muslims, the organizational effort and the state's Christian heritage.

The AfD does not want Islam classes in schools. It says only few Muslims live in the state. And the state has a Christian tradition. Muslim students can learn about their religion at mosque associations.

The AfD wants to deploy private security guards at schools where needed and punish violent students as severely as the law allows. The platform justifies this with what it calls an unbearable level of violence at schools, especially in Halle.

The AfD says there is too much violence at schools. It wants guards in the schoolyard where needed. Students who are violent should be punished hard. They should be expelled faster. Some should go to a special school.

The AfD wants to replace bachelor's and master's degrees with the former German programs and degrees such as the Diplom and Magister. Saxony-Anhalt would switch first, followed by a Bundesrat initiative to take all of Germany out of the Bologna system. The platform argues that German universities are only attractive internationally if they have a distinctive system of their own.

The AfD wants to get rid of bachelor's and master's degrees. The old German degrees, Diplom and Magister, would come back. Saxony-Anhalt would change first. Later all of Germany would follow.

The AfD wants to set up a state funding scheme alongside BAföG (federal student aid) that awards scholarships for degree studies and doctorates. They would be granted purely on academic performance, regardless of parental income. In the platform's view, BAföG hands out money without regard to academic performance and misuses tax money.

The AfD wants a new scholarship paid by the state. A scholarship is money for studying. Only performance would count. Parents' income would not matter.

The AfD wants to replace the numerus clausus (admission based on school-leaving grades) with entrance exams. When there are too many applicants, universities would test who is suited to the subject in question. The platform says the Abitur grade is not a suitable measure of aptitude for a particular field of study.

Today the Abitur grade often decides who gets a place at university. The Abitur is the German school-leaving exam. The AfD wants to change that. Universities would hold entrance exams. The best in the exam get the place.

The AfD wants to pay university researchers better while setting higher academic requirements. Fixed-term contracts would become less common. The platform argues that low pay drives the best people away from universities.

The AfD wants to pay researchers more money. In return they would have to meet higher standards. There would be fewer temporary contracts. This way the best would stay at the university.

The AfD wants a university reform that restricts the say of the various university groups and above all reduces the influence of student councils. In its view, professors should carry the most weight because knowledge and education cannot be negotiated democratically.

Many groups have a say at universities today. The AfD wants to change that. Professors would decide the most. Student councils would have less influence.

The AfD wants a state government under its leadership to examine how postcolonial approaches at universities can be pushed back without violating academic freedom. In the program's view, postcolonialism is not scholarship but a political project directed against European identity.

The AfD rejects postcolonialism. That is a school of thought at universities. It studies how the colonial era shaped culture and thinking. The AfD wants to check how to push it back. Academic freedom should stay protected.

The AfD wants to found a state institute for critical research on Islam outside the universities, intended to set the standard nationwide. In the party's view, today's Islamic studies are uncritical and supply politicians with favorable expert opinions.

The AfD wants to found a new state research institute. It should study Islam critically. It should not belong to a university. The AfD thinks today's research on Islam is not critical enough. The institute should advise politicians.

The AfD wants to fund universities so that research no longer depends on externally acquired grants. It argues that funding bodies attach political conditions to their money and that dissenting research goes unfunded.

Researchers today often have to win money from foundations and other funders. This is called third-party funding. The AfD wants to change that. Universities should get enough fixed money from the state. The AfD thinks this makes research freer.

The AfD wants to preserve the distinction between practice-oriented Fachhochschulen (universities of applied sciences) and research-oriented universities. Fachhochschulen may award doctorates, but those earned there independently would be marked with the suffix F.H.

Germany has Fachhochschulen and universities. Fachhochschulen are schools of applied sciences and are closer to practice. Universities do more theory and basic research. The AfD wants to keep this difference. A doctorate from a Fachhochschule should carry the letters F.H.

The AfD wants to introduce a voluntary "trades year" for school leavers. It is meant to raise the profile of the skilled trades as a career and, in the party's view, to counter an excessive preference for university study.

The AfD wants a voluntary year in the skilled trades. Young people can do it after school. They get to know four different trades. The AfD says too many young people go to university. It says too few learn a trade.

The AfD wants to restrict or entirely block access for children and adolescents to puberty blockers and gender-affirming hormone therapy. It describes these treatments as experimental and cites the German Medical Assembly (Deutscher Ärztetag).

Some children do not feel they belong to their sex. There are drugs that pause puberty. The AfD wants children and teenagers to get these drugs rarely or not at all. The same goes for hormones that change the body toward another sex.

The AfD wants to raise state investment in hospitals back to 180 million euros, the 2005 level. The platform argues that years of underfunding have left clinics with run-down buildings, outdated equipment and too few staff.

The AfD wants to spend more money on hospitals. The goal is 180 million euros again. That was the amount in 2005. The AfD says many clinics have old buildings and old equipment.

The AfD wants to stop the sale of municipal hospitals to private clinic corporations and give public owners priority. In the platform's view, privatization has harmed care and lowered standards.

The AfD wants to stop selling hospitals to private companies. Towns, counties and the state should come first. The AfD says the sales were a mistake. Some sold clinics should become public again.

The AfD wants to adapt the nationwide hospital reform and its service groups to conditions in Saxony-Anhalt so that small rural hospitals and emergency rooms are not lost. It accepts hospital restructuring only if care in the region does not get worse.

A new federal law changes the rules for hospitals. The AfD fears small rural clinics will lose important departments. It wants to adjust the rules for Saxony-Anhalt. Every region should have a hospital and an emergency room nearby.

The AfD supports regional health centers as a complement to office-based doctors in order to secure care across the state. It is critical of clinic corporations running such centers, arguing they are part of essential public services.

The AfD likes regional health centers. Doctors from many fields work together there. This should secure care across the state. Big clinic companies should preferably not run these centers.

The AfD wants emergency medical services to once again meet the Hilfsfrist, the required maximum response time, everywhere in the state. To do so, rescue stations are to be spread out more widely, air rescue expanded and volunteer first responders added to the emergency call system.

Ambulances should reach patients faster. The AfD wants more rescue stations in more places. It also wants more rescue helicopters. Volunteer first responders should help with emergency calls.

The AfD wants to push at the federal level to replace the DRG system, under which hospitals are paid a flat rate per case. It should give way to a payment model that rewards treatment outcomes and quality.

Hospitals today get a fixed amount for each treatment. This is called the DRG system. The AfD wants to replace it. The new system should reward good treatment. The AfD wants to push for this at the national level.

The AfD wants to shift health care toward prevention and put it on equal footing with curative treatment, rehabilitation and nursing care. It plans state prevention strategies, rules for meals in daycare centers and schools, and health education in class.

The AfD wants people to stay healthy in the first place. Prevention should matter as much as treatment. Children should get healthy food in daycare and school. Schools should teach how to live in a healthy way. Doctors should look more closely at children before they start school.

The AfD wants to address the doctor shortage with physicians trained in the state and to stop relying on doctors from abroad. Medical school capacity is to grow by at least 20 percent, and a scholarship program for future rural doctors is to be set up.

Saxony-Anhalt does not have enough doctors. The AfD wants to train more doctors at home. It no longer wants to depend on doctors from other countries. There should be more places to study medicine. Students who get a scholarship must later work in the countryside for ten years.

The AfD wants to set minimum staffing levels for all medical areas, cut documentation requirements and replace the generalist nursing training with separate tracks again. Nurses themselves would vote on whether to create a nursing chamber.

There are not enough nurses. The AfD wants to set a minimum number of nursing staff. Nurses should have less paperwork. There should again be separate training for elder care, hospital care and children's care. Nurses should decide for themselves whether they want a nursing chamber.

The AfD wants to strengthen care at home over nursing homes and improve the position of family caregivers, including through a state care allowance (Landespflegegeld) and tax relief. In the party's view, families should again take on more tasks now carried by the state.

The AfD wants more old people to be cared for at home. Families should get more money for this. The state should pay a care allowance. Care within the family should count more toward pensions. Costs in nursing homes should be limited.

The AfD wants outpatient palliative services and hospice places to be available in every region of Saxony-Anhalt. In addition, supported dying at home among family is to receive special support.

Very sick and dying people need special help. This is called palliative care. It eases pain when a cure is no longer possible. The AfD wants this care everywhere in the state. People should also be able to die at home with their family.

The AfD wants to set up a parliamentary inquiry committee on COVID policy to name those responsible and hold them accountable. The platform considers the measures of that time, and all penalties for violating them, disproportionate and therefore unjust.

The AfD says the COVID rules were unjust. In its view, the fines and penalties were unjust too. A committee in the state parliament should look into that time. It should say who was responsible. The AfD also wants a plan for dangerous diseases in the future.

The AfD wants to grant people facing political persecution and war refugees only temporary protection. Anyone who commits a crime would have to leave the country immediately. Skilled workers could immigrate according to the state's own needs, but should primarily be trained at home.

Persecuted people and war refugees should get protection. But the protection should last only for a limited time. Anyone who commits a crime should have to leave right away. Skilled workers should mostly come from within the country.

The AfD wants to use the Bundesrat to push for much tougher checks at Germany's borders. Anyone who enters without permission and, in the party's view, has no right to file an asylum claim should be turned back without exception. The platform frames this as a return to applying existing law.

The AfD wants more checks at Germany's borders. Some people enter without permission. The AfD says many of them may not ask for asylum. These people should always be turned back at the border. The AfD wants to push for this in the Bundesrat. That is the chamber of the German states.

An AfD state government would refuse to take in people in Saxony-Anhalt who entered without authorization via a safe third country or whose identity is unclear. The state would also withdraw from voluntary admission programs and decline to accept Afghan local staff. The platform argues these people have no entitlement and that capacity is exhausted.

The AfD does not want Saxony-Anhalt to take in certain people. This applies to people who came without permission through a safe country. It also applies to people whose identity is unclear. The state should leave voluntary admission programs. It should also not take in Afghans who once worked for German agencies.

The AfD wants to end church asylum in Saxony-Anhalt, arguing that it violates existing law and blocks deportations. The people concerned would be deported as quickly as possible. The party also wants to have criminal proceedings and financial liability for church congregations examined.

Some churches shelter people who have to leave Germany. This is called church asylum. The AfD wants to end it in Saxony-Anhalt. People in church asylum should be deported quickly. The AfD wants to check if churches are breaking criminal law. It also wants to check if churches must pay the costs.

The AfD wants to use the Bundesrat to abolish the constitutional right to asylum and replace it with a discretionary grant by the state. The state would decide according to its own political interest who receives asylum.

Today the right to asylum is in Germany's constitution. The AfD wants to remove this right. Instead, the state should decide freely who gets asylum. Nobody would have a fixed claim to it. The AfD wants to achieve this through the Bundesrat.

The AfD wants refugees to find shelter in countries neighboring their homeland rather than travel on to Germany. Aid would be provided only there, with the federal government giving the UN refugee agency sufficient funds. The platform considers this more sensible economically and socially than admitting people.

The AfD wants to help refugees only near their home countries. They should find shelter in neighboring countries. They should not come to Germany. The federal government should give money to the UN refugee agency for this. The AfD thinks this is better and cheaper.

The AfD wants stops at three levels: municipalities could obtain a ban on refugees moving in upon request, and the state would stop admitting anyone in an emergency. At the federal level, the party wants an admission stop for non-EU nationals until further notice. The platform justifies this with exhausted capacity.

The AfD says towns and cities cannot take in more people. Towns should be able to ask for a ban on refugees moving in. In an emergency, the whole state should take in nobody. The AfD also wants a stop for all of Germany. It would apply to people from countries outside the EU.

The AfD wants to equip all registration offices with document-checking devices and verify every passport presented by asylum applicants. For unaccompanied minor foreigners, age would be determined through mandatory medical examinations. The party says this would uncover deception it considers widespread.

The AfD wants to always check if asylum seekers' passports are real. All registration offices should get devices for this. Some young people say they are under 18. Doctors should examine how old they are. This exam should be required.

The AfD wants to house asylum seekers in central group facilities rather than in apartments. The sites should not be in city centers, in order to avoid conflict. The party sees asylum as temporary hospitality that ends with a return home.

The AfD wants asylum seekers to live in large shared facilities. They should not live in separate apartments. The facilities should not be in city centers. The AfD says asylum is only for a limited time. After that, people should go back to their home country.

The AfD wants cash, credit cards and other assets carried by asylum seekers to be recorded and confiscated on arrival. The money would help pay for housing and food. The platform justifies this as a way to save taxpayer money.

The AfD wants to take cash and valuables from asylum seekers when they arrive. The state would use this to pay for housing and food. Later, officials would check their assets again. The AfD says this saves tax money.

The AfD wants to require asylum seekers in the state's initial reception centers to do community work. Benefits would be provided in kind rather than in cash, and money transfers abroad would be blocked. The platform says this would remove financial incentives for immigration.

The AfD wants to make asylum seekers do community work. For example, they would clean their shelters. They would get goods instead of cash. They would not be able to send money abroad.

The AfD wants the protection status of all refugees in Saxony-Anhalt reviewed every year and revoked when conditions in the home country improve. Those who travel to their home country, commit crimes or are classed as security threats would lose their status. Through the Bundesrat, subsidiary protection for war and civil war refugees would be abolished altogether.

The AfD wants to check refugees' protection every year. If the home country gets safer, protection should end. People who travel to their home country should lose protection. So should criminals. The AfD wants to fully end the protection status for war refugees.

The AfD wants to end state spending on organizations and projects in the field of asylum and integration and stop funding a culture of welcome. The money saved would go to the native population. The platform regards current integration policy as bound to fail.

The AfD wants to stop state money for integration projects. Projects for a welcoming culture would end too. The money would go to local people instead. The AfD says integration policy does not work.

The AfD wants to prevent people from other EU countries from moving to Saxony-Anhalt because of social benefits. Those affected would be pushed to return to the EU country they came from. In the platform's view, the German welfare state attracts this immigration and causes conflicts.

Some poor people from EU countries move to Saxony-Anhalt. The AfD says they come for welfare benefits. The AfD wants to stop this. These people should go back to the EU country they came from.

The AfD wants naturalization in Saxony-Anhalt handled as strictly as possible and permanently denied to criminals. In the Bundesrat it wants to roll back the previous federal coalition's naturalization reform and replace citizenship by place of birth with citizenship by descent. Serious criminals with dual citizenship would normally lose their German one.

The AfD wants to make it harder to become German. Criminals should never get a German passport. Children of foreigners born in Germany would no longer become German by birth. Serious criminals with two passports would lose the German one.

The AfD rejects integrating illegal immigrants into the labor market and recruiting skilled workers from other cultural backgrounds. Shortages would instead be addressed through mechanization, digitalization and artificial intelligence, and in the long run through more births and less emigration. In the platform's view, immigration worsens the skills shortage and carries security risks.

The AfD does not want to recruit skilled workers from foreign cultures. It does not want to bring illegal immigrants into jobs. Machines, computers and AI should replace missing workers. AI means artificial intelligence. The AfD also wants more children to be born.

The AfD wants a state program to bring back German skilled workers who have moved abroad. It would offer help finding housing and daycare, plus a bonus payment. Skilled workers from other German states are also meant to move to Saxony-Anhalt.

Many German skilled workers live abroad. The AfD wants to bring them back. The state would help them find a home and daycare. People who return and work for two years get money.

The AfD wants to deport far more people from Saxony-Anhalt who are required to leave, and to spend 100 million euros on it. The state would organize its own deportation flights, set up a "Task Force Abschiebungen" (deportation task force), and push local immigration offices toward a stricter course.

The AfD wants to deport many more people. These are people who must leave Germany. The state would organize its own flights for this. A new working group would speed up deportations. Criminals would be deported especially fast.

The AfD wants to withdraw public funding from institutions, initiatives, and associations that help rejected asylum seekers avoid deportation. Individuals who actively help would face strict punishment.

Some groups help people who are about to be deported. The AfD wants to stop giving these groups state money. People who actively block a deportation would be punished.

The AfD wants to use every legally available form of deportation detention and sharply increase the number of detention places in the state. To do so, it would temporarily suspend the separation of prison and deportation detention and look into converting the Stendal reception center.

The AfD wants to detain more people before they are deported. The state needs more detention places for this. The reception center in Stendal might become a deportation detention center. Regular prisons would also be used for a time.

The AfD wants to set up a staff office for remigration and appoint a remigration commissioner. Money now earmarked for integration guides would instead pay for remigration guides.

The AfD wants a new office for remigration. For the AfD, remigration means people going back to their home country. The money for integration guides would end. Instead there would be remigration guides.

The AfD wants to use the Bundesrat to make German development aid depend on whether a country takes back its citizens. The initiative would also push for stricter controls at the EU's and Germany's borders.

Germany pays development aid to other countries. The AfD wants to attach a condition. Countries that take back their citizens would get more money. Countries that do not would get less.

The AfD wants authorities in Saxony-Anhalt to make full use of every existing option to cut benefits for people required to leave. The aim is to raise the pressure on them to leave Germany.

Some people must leave Germany. The AfD wants to give them less money and help. The law already allows such cuts today. All offices in the state would use them. That way, more people would leave.

The AfD wants Ukrainians to stop receiving Bürgergeld (citizen's income) and instead get the lower benefits paid to asylum seekers. It also wants to prepare the return of Ukrainians living in Saxony-Anhalt and to stop recognizing them across the board as war refugees.

Ukrainians in Germany get Bürgergeld, a basic income benefit. The AfD wants to change that. Ukrainians would only get the benefits for asylum seekers. That is less money. The AfD also wants to prepare their return to Ukraine.

The AfD wants to create a state-run program that encourages migrants without legal residence to leave voluntarily. The aim is a sharp rise in the number of such departures. Municipalities would get support for their own return initiatives.

The AfD wants a return program for Saxony-Anhalt. It should get people without legal residence to leave on their own. Many more people should leave this way. Towns and cities should also get help with this.

The AfD wants to raise the bar for naturalization: an essay would replace the current multiple-choice test, and a new declaration would require a commitment to Germany. In addition, waiting periods for naturalization would depend on a person's own integration efforts rather than length of residence alone.

The AfD wants to make it harder to become a citizen. People should write an essay instead of taking a multiple-choice test. The essay also tests language skills. New citizens should commit to Germany. People who integrate well should become citizens faster. Others have to wait longer.

The AfD wants to make courses on German history and culture mandatory for all foreigners who are lawfully and permanently resident. Anyone absent without excuse could, in the most serious case, lose their residence permit. The platform considers the current courses too narrowly focused on the constitution.

The AfD wants required courses for foreigners. The courses should teach German history and culture. All foreigners who live here legally and long-term must take part. People who miss class without a reason should face penalties. They can even lose their right to stay.

The AfD wants to push at the federal level for foreigners to be expelled as a rule once sentenced to at least one year in prison. Foreigners deemed prone to violence would be monitored as a priority, deported and detained until then; at least 300 deportation detention places would be created.

The AfD wants to expel foreigners sentenced to at least one year in prison. For this, federal law would have to change. Foreigners who are ready to use violence should be watched closely. They should stay in detention until they are deported. The state should create 300 places for deportation detention.

The AfD wants Saxony-Anhalt itself to sign agreements with countries of origin so that they take back citizens who are required to leave Germany. According to the platform, deportations of rejected asylum seekers currently fail partly because those countries do not cooperate.

Some people are not allowed to stay in Germany. The AfD wants them to leave. Saxony-Anhalt should sign its own agreements with other countries. Those countries should take their citizens back.

The AfD wants naturalizations to be handled by a central state agency rather than by the immigration offices of municipalities and counties. The aim is for the same standard to apply everywhere in the state.

Today, local offices in cities and counties decide on naturalization. Naturalization means a person becomes a German citizen. The AfD wants just one office for the whole state. That way the same rules should apply everywhere.

The AfD wants to end irregular immigration to Saxony-Anhalt and not admit people as "climate refugees." It adds an ecological argument: those who come to Germany raise their standard of living and with it their use of resources.

The AfD does not want to take in people who flee because of the climate. It wants to end immigration without permission to Saxony-Anhalt. The AfD also gives a reason from environmental protection. It says these people use more resources in Germany than before.

The AfD wants to prevent more migrants from being placed in rural municipalities as part of decentralized accommodation. Instead, they are to be housed as far as possible in a small number of central reception facilities in the state.

The AfD wants no new housing for asylum seekers in villages. Municipalities should not be assigned fixed numbers of migrants. Migrants should live in a few large facilities in the state.

The AfD wants to abolish the office of the equal opportunity officer and install a family officer instead. That officer would assess how government action affects the birth rate. Laws and regulations would be reviewed for family-friendliness.

Today there are equal opportunity officers. The AfD wants to end this office. A family officer should take its place. This person checks if laws are good for families.

The AfD wants to end all state campaigns and programs that expose children to sexual topics before puberty. It calls such programs early sexualization and regards sex education as the parents' job.

The AfD wants to stop certain state programs. These programs talk with young children about sexuality. The AfD says parents should talk about this with their children. In daycare, a family with a man and a woman should count as normal.

The AfD wants to prohibit gender-inclusive language in all official state contexts and issue a guideline on good German. The platform rejects every form of gendered language reform, including forms such as "Studierende" (a gender-neutral word for students). It justifies this by holding on to inherited language forms and by readability.

The AfD wants to ban gender-inclusive language in public offices. This applies to schools, courts, and ministries, for example. Only traditional spellings should be used there. The party also rejects gender-neutral words like "Studierende." A new guideline should show what good German is.

The AfD wants to replace the "Girls' and Boys' Day" with a joint Future Day for career orientation. Boys and girls would not be separated and could choose freely. The party sees no problem in occupations being chosen at different rates by women and men.

The AfD wants to end Girls' and Boys' Day. There should be a Future Day instead. Boys and girls learn about jobs together there. Everyone can choose what they like.

The AfD wants to interpret religious freedom more narrowly and push back the influence of Islam in Saxony-Anhalt as far as the law permits. In the platform's view, this basic right has been stretched too far over recent decades.

The AfD wants to limit the influence of Islam in Saxony-Anhalt. It wants to read religious freedom more narrowly than today. The party says this right was stretched too far. It only wants to do what the law allows.

The AfD wants to issue a decree banning schools from officially displaying the rainbow flag. It sees the flag as the symbol of a movement that, in its view, attacks traditional normality, and wants schools to present the family of man, woman and children as the model.

Schools should no longer show the rainbow flag. The AfD wants to order this with an official instruction. Students may still use the flag privately, for example as a sticker. The AfD wants schools to show the family of man, woman and children as the model.

The AfD wants to end women's quotas and state programs that specifically support women at universities. In the state's Higher Education Act, the goal of "Gleichstellung" (equality of outcome) would be replaced by equal rights, and the office of equal opportunity officer would be removed. The platform argues that current policy disadvantages men and lowers academic standards.

The AfD wants to end quotas for women at universities. Programs that support only women would stop. There would be no more equal opportunity officers. The AfD says only performance should count.

The AfD wants to abolish gender studies at the state's universities and withdraw public funding from the field. In its view, gender studies are largely a political ideology rather than scholarship. The lever would be the target agreements between the state and the universities.

The AfD wants to abolish gender studies. This field looks at the roles of men and women. The AfD says it is politics and not science. The state would no longer pay for it.

The AfD rejects targets for a higher share of women and gender parity in the police. Positions should be filled solely on the basis of aptitude, performance and qualifications.

The AfD wants no quotas for women in the police. A quota sets how many jobs should go to women. Only ability and performance should count. The AfD says quotas put men at a disadvantage.

The AfD wants to remove the obligation for municipalities to appoint equal opportunity officers. Public funding should no longer be tied to gender targets or similar requirements but should follow actual need and benefit religion, local customs and culture in the villages.

Today, municipalities must have an equal opportunity officer. The AfD wants to end this duty. Gender targets should no longer matter for public funding. The money should go to religion, local customs and culture in villages.

The AfD wants to abolish the posts of special commissioners, such as those for gender equality, integration, and diversity. In its view, these offices are costly, offer residents little benefit, and serve to provide jobs for people close to other parties.

The state has commissioners for certain topics. For example, for equality and integration. The AfD wants to get rid of these posts. It says they cost a lot and help little.

The AfD wants to end the energy transition in Saxony-Anhalt and return to a broad energy mix that includes fossil fuels. Instead of climate protection, the state would get a strategy for adapting to the climate. The platform cites high energy prices and the burden on low-income households as reasons.

The AfD wants to end the energy transition in Saxony-Anhalt. Energy should again come from coal, oil and gas too. The AfD does not want to protect the climate. The state should adapt to the climate instead. This is meant to make energy cheaper.

The AfD wants to cut all state subsidies for renewable energy while honoring existing commitments. In the Bundesrat, the state would push for the federal government to stop its support as well and for the feed-in priority for green power to be dropped. In the party's view, renewables should hold their own on the free market.

The AfD wants to stop state money for wind and solar power. Old promises would still be kept. The federal government should also stop this support. Green power should no longer go first into the power grid. It should manage without help from the state.

The AfD wants to dissolve the state energy agency and repeal the state law meant to increase acceptance of renewable energy expansion. The party considers the agency a waste of taxpayer money. It says the law uses financial incentives to pressure municipalities into approving wind and solar projects.

The state has an energy agency. The AfD wants to close it. It says the agency costs too much. A law should go too. It gives towns money if wind turbines or solar parks stand there. The AfD says this puts pressure on towns.

The AfD wants to push in the Bundesrat for repeal of the Heat Planning Act and the Building Energy Act and to scrap the related state law. Funding for heat pumps would end. Households, landlords and municipalities should decide for themselves how to heat, including with natural gas, heating oil and wood.

There are laws on heating and on heat planning. The AfD wants to get rid of these laws. Everyone should decide how to heat their home. Gas, oil and wood should stay allowed. There should be no more public money for heat pumps.

The AfD wants to adopt a wind power moratorium so that no new wind turbines are approved in the state for the time being. It rejects large solar parks in cultural landscapes and on farmland. It also wants to examine whether operators can be required to set aside reserves for dismantling their installations.

The AfD wants to allow no new wind turbines for now. Large solar parks should not stand on fields. Solar panels should go on roofs. Owners should pay to take down their plants later. The state should not pay for that.

The AfD wants to end the state's hydrogen strategy immediately and cut all state funding for green hydrogen. In the party's view, hydrogen is not competitive as an energy source. The money set aside for a hydrogen network would be saved.

The state supports green hydrogen. That is a gas made with green power. The AfD wants to stop this support. It says hydrogen costs too much. The state should save the money.

The AfD wants to continue generating electricity from lignite and increase the state's energy autonomy. A blackout strategy would be drawn up for a large-scale power outage. The platform argues that expanding wind and solar power has made the supply unreliable.

The AfD wants to keep making power from lignite, a kind of coal. The state should supply itself well with energy. The AfD also wants a plan for big power outages. The plan should protect people in an emergency.

The AfD wants to use the Bundesrat to push for an end to energy sanctions against Russia and a return to normal trade relations. The Nord Stream pipelines are to be repaired and used for gas imports. According to the platform, fracked gas shipped by sea cannot replace Russian pipeline gas.

The AfD wants to buy gas from Russia again. The sanctions on energy should end. Sanctions are penalties against a country, such as trade bans. The Nord Stream gas pipelines should be repaired. The AfD says Russian gas is cheaper.

The AfD wants to stop Germany's coal phase-out and keep using lignite in Saxony-Anhalt beyond 2038. It also wants new gas-fired power plants, preferably in the state as well. The platform expects lower electricity prices, stable grids and secure industrial jobs.

The AfD wants to keep making power from coal. The coal phase-out should stop. Coal plants should keep running in the state after 2038. New gas power plants should be built too. The AfD says this makes power cheaper and more reliable.

The AfD wants Germany to generate electricity from nuclear power again and would advocate for this in the Bundesrat. As a first step, nuclear energy research is to be re-established in the state. The platform calls Germany's nuclear exit a special path while other countries expand nuclear power.

The AfD wants nuclear power plants in Germany again. First, the state should do nuclear research again. Later, nuclear power should be produced again. Until then, coal and gas should supply the power.

The AfD rejects current climate protection policy and instead wants locally focused environmental and homeland protection along with climate adaptation. Wind and solar projects that it believes endanger the local microclimate would not be approved. State funds for climate protection and the federal government's international climate aid are to be cut.

The AfD wants to end current climate policy. It says Saxony-Anhalt cannot save the world's climate. Instead, it wants to protect nature locally. Some wind turbines and solar parks should no longer be allowed. The state should stop spending money on climate protection.

The AfD wants to create an institute to study the consequences of the climate policies of previous federal and state governments. Scientists critical of climate policy should be able to do research in Saxony-Anhalt undisturbed. The findings are meant to prepare a parliamentary inquiry.

The AfD wants to found a new research institute. It should check what effects climate policy has had. Researchers who criticize this policy should be able to work in the state. Later, a committee in the state parliament should investigate climate policy.

The AfD wants Germany to leave the Paris climate agreement, the European Green Deal to be terminated and the Federal Climate Protection Act to be abolished. Emissions trading is also to end. The platform argues that global climate protection has effectively failed and that the CO₂ price puts domestic companies at a competitive disadvantage.

The AfD wants to leave the Paris climate agreement. The German climate protection law should also go. Companies should no longer have to pay for CO₂. CO₂ is a gas that is produced when things burn. The AfD says these rules hurt companies in the state.

The AfD wants a state government under its leadership to push in the Bundesrat for scrapping the CO₂ levy. The platform justifies this with the extra costs for consumers on fuel and heating and with what it sees as growing energy poverty in the state.

The AfD wants to get rid of the CO₂ levy. This is an extra charge on gasoline, heating oil and gas. The AfD says the levy makes energy too expensive for many people. It wants to push for this in the Bundesrat, the chamber of the German states.

The AfD rejects rules meant to limit people's consumption for climate reasons, such as on eating meat. Under its government there would be no CO₂ budget for the state or for individual citizens; people should decide about their own consumption themselves.

The AfD does not want climate bans on what people buy and eat. For example, nobody should have to eat less meat. There should also be no CO₂ budget. That is a fixed amount of emissions that is allowed. Everyone should decide for themselves what to buy and eat.

The AfD wants Saxony-Anhalt to take part in research and development projects on nuclear fusion. The platform's goal is to secure access to this technology, share in the economic value it creates, and depend less on energy imports.

The AfD wants to support research on nuclear fusion. Nuclear fusion is a new way to produce energy. Saxony-Anhalt should join research projects. This way Germany should need to buy less energy from abroad.

The AfD wants to change the state's forestry rules so that no new wind turbines are built in forests. Animal and forest protection would take priority. The platform cites cleared corridors, higher fire risk and damage to plants and wildlife.

The AfD wants no new wind turbines in forests. It wants to change state rules to do this. Protecting forests and animals should matter more. The forest should stay a place to relax.

The AfD rejects extracting natural gas by fracking in the state for the time being. It cites environmental, safety and health reasons. It also says Saxony-Anhalt has no deposits that would be worth exploiting.

The AfD wants no fracking in Saxony-Anhalt. Fracking means pumping fluid into the ground to get gas. The AfD says this harms nature and health. It also says the state has too little gas for it.

The AfD wants to reduce the wolf population in a targeted way and dissolve the state's wolf competence center. It commits to hunting and wants to allow hunters more technical aids. The platform points to rising costs caused by wolves and sees a danger to people.

The AfD says there are too many wolves. It wants to lower the number of wolves. The state's wolf center should close. Hunters should be allowed to use more equipment. Examples are night-vision devices and silencers.

The AfD wants to replant bare forest areas, primarily with native tree species, and give private forest owners financial support. The Landesdarre Annaburg, a state facility that produces forest seed, is to be expanded. Asylum seekers would be required to help with reforestation and forest maintenance.

Many forest areas are bare. The AfD wants to plant new trees there. Private forest owners should get help for this. The Landesdarre in Annaburg should grow. It produces seeds for trees. Asylum seekers should have to help in the forest.

The AfD wants to strengthen regional slaughter and meat-processing facilities and restrict animal transports to short distances. Slaughter without stunning would be banned by deleting the exemption in the Animal Welfare Act. The platform justifies both with animal welfare.

The AfD wants more slaughterhouses in the region. Animals should only travel short distances. The AfD is against animal transports to countries outside the EU. Slaughter without stunning should be banned. This also applies to religious slaughter.

The AfD wants to give the state's animal shelters permanent, simple funding for upkeep, modernization and new buildings. It also calls for a statewide requirement to neuter free-roaming cats. According to the platform, many shelters are overcrowded and carry out tasks that are municipalities' legal duties.

Many animal shelters are too full. The AfD wants to give them lasting funding. They can use it to build and repair. Cats that go outside should have to be neutered. That way there should be fewer stray cats.

The AfD wants to abolish the right of associations to bring lawsuits. According to the party, environmental groups in particular use this right to block road construction and other infrastructure projects. Only those whose own rights are affected should be able to sue.

Today, groups can go to court against building projects. The AfD wants to end this right. Only people who are affected themselves should be able to sue. The AfD says environmental groups use this right to stop roads.

The AfD wants to introduce mandatory insurance against natural hazard damage where there is a flood risk, along with a share in the gains from inner-city redevelopment after natural disasters. It also wants more floodplains and a swift completion of ongoing protection projects.

The AfD wants required insurance against flood damage. It applies where floods are a risk. Rivers should get more room. There should be more land that water is allowed to flood. Protection projects already started should be finished quickly.

The AfD wants to treat conventional and organic farms alike and rejects favoring particular types of farms. Farmers would be relieved of documentation and reporting duties, and regional production and marketing would receive a large share of economic development funding.

The AfD wants to support all farms equally. Organic farms should have no advantage over other farms. Farmers should have less paperwork. The state should give more support to regional food.

The AfD wants to end the EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in the long run and have farm policy decided by Germany alone. It also rejects the EU Nature Restoration Regulation. The party argues this would cut red tape and allow subsidies to be targeted better.

Today the EU decides a lot about farming. The AfD wants to change that. Germany should decide about farming on its own again. The AfD is also against an EU law to protect nature. It says the law hurts farmers.

The AfD calls for a new agricultural structure law that gives farmers from the region priority in access to farmland. Land speculation and the concentration of large areas among a few owners are to be stopped. The platform argues that only farmers rooted in the area support village life.

The AfD wants a new law about farmland. Farmers from the region should get land more easily. A few owners should not hold very much land. Outside investors should have a harder time.

The AfD wants to relieve farmers and livestock keepers of costs and regulations. The Wassercent (water levy) on irrigation water would be dropped, fertilizer rules loosened and all livestock regulations reviewed. Keeping farm animals privately is also to become easier.

The AfD wants to ease the load on farmers. Water for the fields should no longer carry a fee. Farmers should decide for themselves how much fertilizer to use. The AfD wants to check the rules for keeping animals. It should also be easier to keep chickens or a pig at home.

The AfD wants to permanently prevent the planned 2035 end of new combustion-engine cars rather than merely delay it. The state would also cut all subsidies for electric cars and charging stations. The platform points to the importance of the auto industry and says e-mobility must compete on the market.

The AfD wants to keep allowing gasoline and diesel cars. The ban planned for 2035 should be dropped completely. The state should no longer pay for electric cars. This also applies to charging stations. The AfD says electric cars must sell without help.

The AfD wants to clear the backlog of investment in roads and bridges and to present a financing plan for it. Planning approval procedures are to become much shorter. The platform argues that reliable infrastructure secures growth and jobs.

Many roads and bridges are in bad shape. The AfD wants to plan more money for repairs. There should be a plan for how to pay for it. Planning for building projects should also be much faster.

The AfD wants to repair roads faster and build highways, federal roads and bypasses more quickly. The platform sees the car, usually with a combustion engine, as the most important means of transport in this largely rural state. Construction sites and detours are to be geared more toward drivers' needs.

The AfD wants to fix roads faster and build new roads. The car should stay the most important way to get around. Road work should bother drivers less. Detours should be shorter and have better signs. There should be more parking spots for trucks.

The AfD wants to keep the state's ferry connections for the long term. The costs are to be shifted by law from the municipalities to the state. The platform argues that ferries, as a voluntary task, currently weigh on other municipal services.

Ferries matter in the countryside where there are no bridges. Today, towns mostly pay for them. The AfD wants to change that. The state should pay for the ferries. Then towns have more money left for other things.

The AfD wants to expand local public transport, explicitly as a complement to the private car and not as a replacement. Train stations are no longer to be dismantled and closed lines are to be reactivated where possible. Magdeburg and Dessau-Roßlau are to get better long-distance rail connections.

The AfD wants more buses and trains. They should add to the car, not replace it. Train stations should no longer be taken down. Old rail lines should be used again. Magdeburg should get ICE trains in all directions.

The AfD wants all schoolchildren in Saxony-Anhalt to get the Deutschlandticket (nationwide public transport pass). So far, only students who take part in school transport receive it. Counties that cannot pay for this themselves are to get grants from the state.

Today, only some students get the Deutschlandticket. That is a pass for buses and trains. Students who live close to school do not get it. The AfD wants the pass for all students. The state should help the counties with money.

The AfD wants a statewide review of how heavily disabled parking spaces are used. Where spaces stay empty over the long term, their number is to be cut. The platform argues that there are more such spaces than eligible users need.

The AfD wants to check parking spaces for people with disabilities. It wants to know how often they are used. If many spaces stay empty for a long time, there should be fewer of them. The AfD thinks there are too many of these spaces.

The AfD rejects state subsidies for cargo bikes. It sees them as favoring certain road users for the sake of cutting CO₂ and wants to spend the money elsewhere.

The state now gives money to buy cargo bikes. The AfD wants to stop this. It says this favors some road users over others. The money should go to other things.

The AfD wants to stop the Bundesrat's 2020 resolution on motorcycle noise from being put into practice. It wants to promote motorcycling as a hobby and give special support to SIMSON culture as part of youth culture.

The Bundesrat wants stricter rules against motorcycle noise. The Bundesrat is the chamber of Germany's states. The AfD is against these rules. It wants no driving bans for motorcycles. It wants to support motorcycling and SIMSON mopeds.

The AfD wants to simplify and speed up planning for bike paths and substantially increase state funding for municipal cycling networks. In its view, bike paths should serve everyday travel and cycling tourism but should not be used against car traffic in cities.

The AfD wants more and better bike paths. Planning should be simpler and faster. Towns should get more money from the state for this. But bike paths should not get in the way of cars in cities.

The AfD wants to boost tourism on waterways and press the federal government to complete the Saale-Leipzig Canal. The inland ports on the Elbe are to be combined in a state-owned company to relieve the municipalities.

The AfD wants more tourism on rivers and canals. The federal government should finish the Saale-Leipzig Canal. The ports on the Elbe river should belong to one state company. This should take a burden off the towns.

The AfD wants to make Saxony-Anhalt a location for data centers and key digital technologies and to promote artificial intelligence. It sees digitalization as an opportunity and criticizes patchy mobile coverage and slow internet.

The AfD wants better internet and better cell phone coverage. It wants to bring large data centers to the state. These are buildings with very many computers. Permits for them should come quickly. The AfD also wants to support artificial intelligence.

The AfD wants to reverse the Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz (Network Enforcement Act, NetzDG), have the EU's Digital Services Act reviewed and undo the 2021 legal changes against right-wing extremism and hate crime. In the platform's view these rules turn private platforms into censorship bodies; courts should decide on violations of the law.

There are laws against hate on the internet. The AfD wants to take these laws back. It says companies delete too much and limit opinions. Only courts should decide about violations. The AfD also wants the EU rules for platforms to be checked.

The AfD wants the police to concentrate on fighting crime and spend less time on speech offenses. The Verfassungsschutz (domestic intelligence agency) should no longer monitor the opposition. The party ties this to a call for more democracy and freedom in the state.

The police should deal with serious crimes. They should spend less time on crimes that are about opinions. The Verfassungsschutz is a domestic intelligence agency. It should stop watching the opposition.

The AfD commits to a strong state and wants to rebalance police tasks: serious crimes are to be pursued more intensively, while citizens' expressions of opinion are not to be prosecuted. The party says this would make the police be seen as a friend and helper again.

The AfD wants a strong state that keeps order. The police should mainly deal with serious crimes. They should not go after citizens for their opinions. The AfD wants people to trust the police again.

The AfD wants to expand the state police to at least 7,500 officers and shorten the time it takes to reach the scene. It justifies the need with rising crime, which it attributes mainly to immigration policy.

The AfD wants more police officers in the state. There should be at least 7,500. The police should also reach the scene faster. The AfD wants to test a digital system in patrol cars for this. Officers should also have less office work.

The AfD wants internal investigations after police use of firearms to be opened only when there is concrete suspicion of misconduct. Pending disciplinary proceedings should no longer block promotions and training, and the office of the state police commissioner should be eliminated.

Today the police check every shot from a service gun internally. The AfD wants this only when a mistake is suspected. A disciplinary case should no longer hold up an officer's career. A disciplinary case checks whether an officer broke the rules of the job. The AfD also wants to abolish the police commissioner.

The AfD wants to make police service more attractive through faster promotions, allowances and state-paid disability insurance, in order to reach 7,500 police officers. Police would also be equipped with Tasers and relieved of administrative work.

The AfD wants more people to join the police. The goal is 7,500 officers. Officers should be promoted faster. The state should pay for an insurance for them. The police should also get Tasers. A Taser is a device that uses electricity to stop a person for a short time.

The AfD wants young offenders to consistently receive a so-called Warnschussarrest ("warning-shot" detention) of up to four weeks. The aim is a sharp warning without a prison sentence burdening their future.

Young people who commit a crime should be put in detention. The detention lasts up to four weeks. The AfD calls it warning-shot detention. It is meant to warn the young person. It does not show up in the criminal record certificate.

The AfD wants to push at the federal level to allow the addresses of released pedophile offenders to be published. Saxony-Anhalt would also get an alert system for missing children modeled on the US AMBER Alert.

The AfD wants to make the addresses of convicted pedophile offenders public. This would apply after release from prison. Federal law would have to change for this. The AfD also wants an alert system for missing children. Police, media and companies would then search for the child together.

The AfD wants to sharply increase pressure from police and domestic intelligence on the far-left scene in Saxony-Anhalt. At the federal level, it wants all groups that identify as "Antifa" to be classified as terrorist organizations.

The AfD sees Antifa as a big danger to public safety. Police and the intelligence service should pursue these groups much harder. The AfD wants Antifa declared a terrorist organization across Germany. It wants to push for this at the federal level.

The AfD wants to create a volunteer citizens' watch in municipalities that supports the public order office and police with auxiliary tasks. It is meant to improve safety, cleanliness and order, since the platform sees the authorities as overstretched.

The AfD wants to start a volunteer citizens' watch. Citizens would help the public order office and the police in their free time. They would get training first. They would get a little money for it. The citizens' watch is not meant to replace police officers.

The AfD wants to regulate fire protection, emergency medical services and disaster response in a single state law. Volunteers would get more recognition through a volunteer card, higher compensation and uniform rules on time off work.

The AfD wants one law for the fire service, rescue service and disaster response. Volunteers should get a volunteer card. Firefighters should get more compensation. Their employers should get a benefit too.

The AfD wants all revenue from the fire protection tax to be passed on to municipalities and earmarked for fire protection. The guaranteed minimum annual payout would be doubled to 9 million euros. The platform also calls for a special budget for fire departments covering highway sections and for subsidized licenses for emergency vehicles.

The AfD wants to give fire departments more money. Towns should get at least 9 million euros each year. That is twice as much as now. Fire departments near highways should get extra money. The state should also help pay for licenses to drive big fire trucks.

The AfD wants criminal cases to be handled more often through the fast-track procedure under Section 417 of the Code of Criminal Procedure. Juvenile offenders and clear-cut cases in particular would be judged quickly, following the "Neukölln model." In the platform's view, this is the only way some offenders come to respect the law.

The AfD wants faster criminal trials. The law already allows a quick procedure. Courts should use it more often. This should apply mainly to young offenders and clear cases. The punishment should come soon after the crime.

The AfD wants courts to use the full sentencing range for violent crimes and intends to encourage judges to do so. Investigations should not be curtailed out of concern about appearing discriminatory. So-called opinion offenses, by contrast, would be punished more leniently.

The AfD wants tough sentences for violent offenders. Judges should give the highest possible sentence. Police should investigate without regard to origin or religion. Statements made online should be punished less harshly.

The AfD wants foreign prisoners to be transferred routinely to their home countries to serve their sentences there. This is meant to relieve the state's prisons, which the platform says are heavily occupied and understaffed. A dedicated team in the ministry would push the procedures forward.

The AfD wants to send prisoners from other countries back home. They should serve their sentence there. The prisons in the state are very full. This should free up space. A new team in the ministry should handle this.

The AfD wants to resolve bottlenecks in the justice system through investment and additional staff. Because a wave of retirements is expected, there would be a temporary increase in positions in the justice administration. For the prison service, it plans a hiring drive and financial incentives.

The AfD wants more staff for courts and prisons. Many employees will retire soon. So there should be more jobs for a while. Older staff can then pass on their knowledge to new staff. Work in prisons should pay better.

The AfD wants to keep the Volkstedt prison running despite the 2012 decision to close it, and to build a new prison quickly as well. It also wants to shut down the black market inside prisons through more checks and tougher sanctions. The platform justifies this with rising numbers of suspects and with safety inside the facilities.

The AfD wants to keep the prison in Volkstedt. It should not close. A new prison should be built too. The AfD wants to stop the trade in phones and drugs inside prisons. It plans more checks and tougher penalties.

The AfD wants to press at the federal level for children to be criminally liable from age 12 instead of 14. In addition, 18- to 20-year-olds should no longer be eligible for sentencing under juvenile law. The platform justifies this with rising youth violence and the feelings of victims.

Today, people can be punished from age 14. The AfD wants this from age 12. People aged 18 to 20 should always be punished like adults. Today, milder youth law sometimes applies to them. The AfD says young people commit more violent crimes.

The AfD wants to press at the federal level for a criminal provision covering public disparagement of the German state, German citizens and national symbols. It argues that minority rights are overemphasized and that the majority population can therefore be denigrated without penalty.

The AfD wants a new criminal rule. People who publicly insult Germany or the Germans should be punished. This could mean a fine or up to three years in prison. The AfD says the law now mainly protects minorities.

The AfD wants to limit the state's Verfassungsschutz (domestic intelligence agency) to classic intelligence work and abolish its public reports. In the program's view, the agency is currently being used to weaken the opposition.

The AfD wants to change the Verfassungsschutz. This is the intelligence agency inside Germany. It should only deal with terror, spying and threats to the state. It should stop publishing public reports. The AfD says the agency is used against the opposition today.

The AfD wants to change assembly law so that only the first demonstration registered may take place at a given location or along a given route. Counter-protests would have to keep a minimum distance. The program also promises more tolerance toward demonstrations, while demanding that the ban on face coverings be enforced and that German be the language used at rallies.

The AfD wants new rules for protests. Only one protest should be allowed in one place. Whoever registers first gets the place. Counter-protests must keep their distance. Nobody should be allowed to cover their face. People should only use German at protests.

The AfD wants to block any further tightening of gun law. In its view, stricter rules mainly hit legal gun owners, while illegal weapons remain unaffected.

The AfD wants no stricter rules for guns. It says the rules in Germany are already very strict. Stricter rules hit hunters, sport shooters and collectors. Criminals use illegal guns. The rules change nothing for them.

The AfD wants to simplify German weapons law and focus it on live firearms. Blank-firing guns would be freely available again and the Kleiner Waffenschein (minor firearms permit) would be abolished. Reliability checks would no longer look at political views but at actual risk, such as drug addiction or mental illness.

The AfD wants simpler rules for weapons. Blank-firing guns should be free to buy again. Officials should no longer check a person's political views. But they should look more closely at drug addiction and mental illness. Sport shooters should be able to own guns more easily.

The AfD wants authorities in Saxony-Anhalt to act consistently against climate activists who commit crimes. The platform speaks of "climate extremism" and cites road blockades and slashed car tires as examples.

The AfD wants to be strict with certain climate activists. It means people who break the law for climate protection. As examples, the AfD names road blockades and slashed tires. Police and courts should act firmly here.

The AfD wants to base its governing policy solely on the well-being of people in Saxony-Anhalt. What the EU, Ukraine, the UN migration compact, or the Paris climate conference want or require should not serve as the benchmark.

The AfD wants to make policy only for the people of Saxony-Anhalt. The EU should not set the standard. Ukraine should not either. The same goes for agreements on migration and climate.

The AfD wants to reduce bureaucracy that, in its view, constrains citizens and public administrations. Municipalities are to receive more money. The party holds that enough funds exist but are being spent in the wrong places.

The AfD wants less red tape. Red tape means many rules and forms from government offices. Cities and towns should get more money. The AfD says there is enough money, but the state spends it wrongly.

The AfD wants to write parents' right to raise their children into Saxony-Anhalt's constitution. It rejects enshrining separate children's rights, arguing this would make state intervention in families easier.

The AfD wants to change the state constitution. It should say: Parents have the right to raise their children. The AfD is against separate children's rights in the constitution. It believes the state would then interfere too much in families.

The AfD wants to dissolve the Landeszentrale für politische Bildung (State Agency for Civic Education) in its current form and replace it with a state institute for civic-political education and cultural identity. The platform accuses the agency of lacking neutrality and of funding left-wing associations.

The AfD wants to close the State Agency for Civic Education. The party says this agency is not neutral. A new institute should replace it. It should deal with civic education and cultural identity.

As a state government, the AfD wants to push for fewer criminal offenses that concern expressions of opinion. It considers the term hate crime too elastic and sees it as a tool for suppressing unwanted criticism.

Some statements are a crime in Germany. The AfD wants fewer such rules. It says the term hate crime is too vague. It says many people no longer dare to give their opinion.

The AfD wants an amnesty law that cancels fines and warning fees imposed for breaking COVID measures. It regards many of those measures as arbitrary and speaks of an injustice that must be remedied.

During COVID there were many rules. People who broke them often had to pay money. The AfD wants to cancel these penalties. People who already paid should be able to get their money back. The AfD thinks many COVID rules were wrong.

The AfD rejects surveillance and data retention without specific cause and wants to give citizens back control over their data. At the same time, the government, the administration and the state parliament would have to disclose considerably more.

The AfD wants no surveillance without a reason. The state should not store data without cause. People should decide about their own data. The government and its offices should publish more documents. All public meetings of the state parliament should be shown online.

The AfD wants members of the state parliament to enjoy immunity by default again, which could be lifted only on request and with a two-thirds majority. The program justifies this by pointing to court cases that, in its view, are being used politically against AfD lawmakers.

Members of the state parliament should have immunity again. Immunity means they cannot simply be taken to court. Parliament should need two thirds of the votes to remove this protection. The AfD says courts are being used against its lawmakers.

Associations would receive state money only if they declare their commitment to the democratic order and to a patriotic stance. The AfD argues that associations that reject Germany are currently being funded as well.

Associations often get money from the state. The AfD wants a new condition for this. Associations should commit to democracy. They should also declare that they stand up for Germany. Without this pledge they should get no money.

The AfD wants to allow postal voting only for voters who credibly show that they cannot vote in person on election day. It regards voting at the polling place as the standard and considers postal voting vulnerable to manipulation.

The AfD wants to limit voting by mail. Only people who really cannot come on election day should vote by mail. They must give an important reason. Everyone else should vote at the polling place. The AfD says cheating is easier with voting by mail.

The AfD wants to make popular initiatives, petitions for referendums and referendums at the state level easier by lowering hurdles and quorums and extending deadlines. It also plans a digital platform for online petitions.

People in the state should be able to vote on issues more often. Fewer signatures should be needed for this. There should be more time to collect them. Signing online should also be possible. There should be a website for petitions. A petition is a request to the state parliament.

The AfD wants to leave more decisions to municipalities and counties and to withdraw requirements set by the state and federal governments. Counties should be able to levy their own taxes, and the federal government should pay for any new tasks it assigns to municipalities.

The AfD wants municipalities to decide more on their own. The state and federal governments should set fewer rules for them. Counties should get their own taxes. If the federal government hands out new tasks, it should pay for them.

The AfD wants to greatly simplify the state's funding programs so that a single application is enough and money is paid out with little red tape. At the same time, municipalities are to get digital administrative access and online services for residents.

The AfD wants fewer forms for public funding. One single application should be enough. Every municipality should get modern digital administration. People should be able to do many things online and by app. But there should still be a human contact person.

The AfD wants to strengthen municipalities' planning authority and make decentralized solutions for drinking water and sewage easier. The obligation to connect to and use public systems is to be loosened. No one is to be required to install a fully biological treatment plant.

Towns should be able to plan more on their own. People should be able to use their own wells for drinking water. The duty to connect to the public system should become looser. No one should have to install a certain kind of sewage plant.

The AfD wants a law restricting municipalities to providing basic local services. Holdings and new companies aimed at profit, investment, or project development would be banned.

The AfD wants to set limits for towns and cities. They should only take care of basic services for local people. These include water, heating, and buses. They should no longer be allowed to start companies to make money.

The AfD wants to completely dissolve the Landesverwaltungsamt (State Administration Office) and close state-owned companies it considers unnecessary. In the program's view, this mid-level agency creates duplicate structures, and tax money should not fund inefficient bodies.

The AfD wants to get rid of the State Administration Office. This is an agency between the ministries and the towns. Some companies owned by the state should also close. The AfD thinks they are not needed and cost too much.

The AfD wants a law banning all state budget funding for political foundations. It regards this funding as indirect party financing and says parties should pay for political education themselves from donations and membership dues.

Some foundations are close to a political party. They get money from the state. The AfD wants a law to stop this. Parties should pay for political education themselves.

The AfD wants at least two old rules repealed for every new one, and applications to count as approved automatically when agencies miss their deadlines. It also calls for mandatory digital procedures and binding standards for a citizen-oriented administration. The stated goal is less bureaucracy and faster processes.

The AfD wants fewer rules. For every new rule, two old ones should go. Offices should decide faster. If they take too long, a request counts as approved. Offices should work more with digital tools.

The AfD wants to push in the Bundesrat (the chamber of the states) for lifting the sanctions on Russia and all other economic sanctions. It argues that they hurt the local economy through the loss of cheap energy and of exports. It considers sanctions acceptable in individual cases, for example against countries that refuse to take back illegal immigrants.

The AfD wants to end the sanctions on Russia. Sanctions are trade penalties against a country. The AfD says they hurt companies in Saxony-Anhalt. Other sanctions should end too. The party wants to push for this in the Bundesrat.

The AfD wants to end what it regards as one-sided political influence. It names schools, state-funded programs worth millions, and the fee-financed public broadcasters.

The AfD says schools influence children politically in a one-sided way. It says the same about costly state programs. And about the public broadcasters that everyone pays fees for. The AfD wants to stop this.

The AfD wants to give the state's cultural policy a patriotic direction and replace the state campaign "moderndenken" (think modern) with a campaign called "deutschdenken" (think German). In the party's view, the goal is a new national self-confidence, which it also sees as a precondition for integration.

The AfD wants a patriotic cultural policy. Patriotic means being proud of your own country. A new campaign should show German history in Saxony-Anhalt. This should make Germans more self-confident.

The AfD wants to end the state's annual grant to the Deutsches Zentrum Kulturgutverluste (German Lost Art Foundation) in Magdeburg entirely. It rejects checking museum holdings for unlawful acquisitions without a specific reason and sees this as keeping a sense of guilt alive.

The AfD wants to stop state money for a center in Magdeburg. The center checks whether museums got objects unlawfully. The AfD is against such checks without a specific reason. It says they only keep a feeling of guilt alive.

The AfD wants to appoint a state commissioner responsible for preserving memorials to fallen soldiers. It says many of these memorials are in poor condition, and it sees their upkeep as a sign of a patriotic turn.

The AfD wants a commissioner for war memorials. These are monuments for soldiers who died in war. The commissioner should make sure they are kept in good shape. The AfD wants to honor the dead soldiers this way.

The AfD wants to write into the state building code that public buildings owned by the state or municipalities must draw on a recognized building tradition. The platform considers many public buildings erected since 1990 ugly and expensive. In the party's view, public buildings should appeal to the majority and reflect historical identity.

The AfD wants new rules for public buildings. These buildings should be built in a traditional style. The party thinks many newer buildings are ugly. Most people should find public buildings beautiful.

The AfD wants public money for arts and culture to go mainly to works that, in its view, contribute to German identity. The platform sees cultivating cultural identity as the foremost task of art. It argues that artistic freedom does not create an entitlement to funding.

The AfD wants to change arts funding. State money should mostly go to art that strengthens German identity. Other art stays allowed. But it should get less state money.

The AfD wants the state to give localities five euros per resident each year for customs and tradition. The aim is to strengthen attachment to the home region and national identity.

The AfD wants to keep customs and traditions alive in villages. Each locality should get money from the state for this. It is five euros per resident each year. The local council decides how to use the money.

The AfD wants to oppose bans on private New Year's Eve fireworks at every level, from municipalities to the federal government. The platform regards fireworks as a centuries-old tradition and a ban as an undue restriction on citizens' freedom.

The AfD is against a ban on fireworks. For the party, firecrackers and rockets belong to New Year's Eve. It sees them as an old tradition. Everyone should be allowed to set off fireworks privately on New Year's Eve.

The AfD wants to turn the state's annual payments to the two major churches into general funding for all Christian churches. The money would be distributed by membership, with the total amount unchanged.

The state pays money to the two big churches every year. The AfD wants to share this money among all Christian churches. A church with more members gets more. The total sum stays the same.

The AfD wants to immediately end state funding for the Evangelische Akademie Sachsen-Anhalt (Protestant Academy). It argues that, in the platform's view, the academy mostly offers political content rather than church-related education.

The Protestant Academy gets money from the state. The AfD wants to stop this payment right away. The party says the academy mostly does politics. It says there is too little teaching about church and faith.

The AfD wants to use a state government to push for an obligation of political neutrality and balance for public broadcasting and for radio stations that receive public money. In the platform's view, critical voices are sidelined in the media and freedom of expression is being narrowed there.

The AfD wants neutral broadcasters. This should apply to public broadcasting. It should also apply to radio stations that get public money. The AfD says many opinions are missing there today.

The AfD wants to call on the state media authority to stop subsidizing Radio Corax, a station in Halle, and to have all so-called Freie Radios (non-commercial community radio stations) reviewed. The platform accuses the station of giving a stage to left-wing positions, gender topics and Antifa content while shutting out dissenting views.

Radio Corax is a radio station in Halle. It gets public money. The AfD wants this money to stop. It says the station is too left-wing and keeps out other opinions. All other community radio stations should be checked too.

The AfD wants to terminate the interstate broadcasting treaties as its first act in government after the election. This is meant to create pressure for reform, because in the platform's view public broadcasting does not renew itself.

The German states have treaties about public broadcasting. The AfD wants to cancel these treaties right away. This should force reforms. The AfD says public broadcasting will not change by itself.

The AfD wants to abolish the broadcasting fee and shrink public broadcasting to a basic service. It argues that every household has to pay regardless of income or actual use, which weighs especially on low earners.

Today every home pays a broadcasting fee. The AfD wants to end this fee. Public broadcasting should only offer a small basic service. People could then pay extra for sports or entertainment if they want.

The AfD wants the regional public broadcaster Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR) to decide on its own locations in order to work more efficiently. In addition, pension contracts in public broadcasting are to be reviewed, and media supervisory bodies are to be staffed independently of parties and on the basis of expertise.

The MDR is a public broadcaster. It should decide by itself where it works. The AfD also wants to check pension contracts in public broadcasting. If they are too high, it wants to cut them. Experts should sit on the oversight boards, not party people.

The AfD wants to keep the Medienanstalt Sachsen-Anhalt (state media authority) as a supervisory body but shrink it and limit it to core tasks. In the long run it is to be paid for from the state budget instead of the broadcasting fee, and the party wants its bodies to be less shaped by party politics.

The state media authority oversees private media in the state. The AfD wants to keep it but make it smaller. It should only do its most important tasks. Later the state should pay for it, not the broadcasting fee. Parties should have less influence there.

The AfD denies the major churches any claim to a special status. This concerns the state's collection of church tax and the Staatsleistungen (state payments to churches). The party argues that the churches have moved away from their Christian mission and are mainly active in social politics.

Today the state collects church tax for the churches. The churches also get money from the state. The AfD says the churches no longer have a claim to this. It says the churches mostly do politics today.

The AfD wants to pay Olympic champions from Saxony-Anhalt a lifelong honorary pension of 150 euros a month. It argues that a gold medal raises the state's reputation and brings an intangible benefit to the public.

The AfD wants to reward Olympic champions from Saxony-Anhalt. They would get 150 euros every month. They would get the money for life. The party says a gold medal is good for the state's reputation.

The AfD wants rural areas across the state to have fast internet, mobile coverage, public transport and medical care. Village stores, bank and postal branches, and clubs are to be preserved and supported so that people stay in the countryside or move there.

The AfD wants to make life in the countryside better. There should be fast internet and cell phone coverage everywhere. Buses and trains should run everywhere. Doctors, stores, banks and post offices should stay in the villages. Clubs should have lower costs.