CDU on other topics

The CDU wants to shape gambling rules so that young people and players are better protected. Illegal offerings are to be fought, while the legal market is to get fair conditions.

The CDU wants clear rules for gambling. Young people and players should be better protected. The CDU wants to fight illegal gambling. Legal providers should have fair conditions.

The platform names three goals for regulation. Protection of minors and players is to increase. Illegal gambling is to be pushed back. Fair market conditions are to apply to legal providers.

The CDU wants to strengthen Saxony-Anhalt as a state for sports, from grassroots to elite level. Funding for sports facilities is to continue, and a new program is to help clubs with coaches and trainers. Every child should learn to swim safely as part of school lessons.

The CDU wants to strengthen sports in the state. There should still be money for sports fields and gyms. Clubs should get help with coaches. Every child should learn to swim at school.

The program points to about 380,000 people in the state who play sports in a club. Municipalities and clubs are to keep receiving money for sports facilities. A new funding program is to help ensure there are enough coaches and trainers for children and young people. The state sports school in Osterburg, the elite sports schools and the Olympic training center will continue to be financed. The CDU calls the National Swimming Center in Magdeburg a central investment in elite sports. Sports development planning and cooperation between municipalities are to receive structural support.

The CDU wants to maintain the state's payments to the churches and stand by the church-state treaties. This is meant to keep church services, religious ceremonies and church-run daycare centers going, especially in rural areas. Church buildings are also to be preserved.

The state gives money to the churches. The CDU wants to keep it that way. This should keep church services going in rural areas. Church-run daycare centers should stay too. Old church buildings should be kept.

The program affirms the independence of the Christian churches and the recognized religious communities. In the CDU's view, the treaties with the churches and the Jewish community have proven their worth. The churches' work in care, education, culture, youth work and integration is to keep receiving support. Church buildings are to be preserved even when they are no longer regularly used for worship. The CDU sees them as a piece of identity and home.

The CDU wants to promote and protect Jewish life in Saxony-Anhalt and guarantee freedom of religion. It intends to counter antisemitic, Islamist and anti-religious currents with the means of the rule of law. It expects all residents to treat one another peacefully and with respect.

The CDU wants to protect Jewish life in the state. Everyone should be free to live their faith. Nobody has to belong to a religion. The CDU wants to act against hatred in the name of a religion.

The program points to the state treaty with the Jewish community and new synagogues in Dessau and Magdeburg; it treats the 2019 Halle attack as a warning. Freedom of belief is to apply as long as nobody incites hatred or oppression of people of other faiths. Initiatives for encounter and dialogue between religions are to be supported. The CDU also wants to give immigrants with faiths little known in the state so far room to be active within the limits of the Grundgesetz (Basic Law). At the same time, it commits to a Leitkultur (guiding culture) and demands that immigrants respect the legal order and values.