CDU on other topics

The CDU wants to develop consumer advice services throughout Saxony and fund them reliably. Consumers are to be protected from fraud, unfair contracts and health risks and be able to make informed choices. Priorities are health, debt, digitalization and energy.

The CDU wants better advice for consumers. The consumer advice center in Saxony should get more sites and mobile advice. There should be help with debt, care and data protection. The money for this should be secure.

The centers of the Verbraucherzentrale Sachsen (Saxony's consumer advice organization) would be expanded and better equipped digitally, offering on-site, outreach and mobile advice, including in rural areas. A neutral advice service on patient and care issues for those affected and their relatives would be set up there. Debt counseling and consumer insolvency counseling are to come from a single source in the future. Plans include easy-access services on data protection and data security and advice on renewable energy and saving energy, starting in schools. The consumer organization would also be involved early in Saxony's AI strategy.

The CDU wants to launch a long-term investment program for municipal and club sports facilities, covering both recreational and competitive sports. Sports funding is to become simpler and allow more local decision-making.

The CDU wants to put a lot of money into sports. Towns and clubs should get help for their fields and gyms. Getting funding should be easier. Saxony should train more good coaches.

The platform calls Saxony a sports state and wants to support recreational, competitive, disability and rehabilitation sports. A degree program for academic coach training is to be set up at Leipzig University to meet the long-term need for coaches. A statewide structure is to be created for the sustainable development of winter sports sites. Cooperation between clubs and daycare centers and schools is to be strengthened. The CDU also welcomes plans for a sports and culture campus in downtown Chemnitz.

The CDU wants to keep the state's treaties with the churches and its agreements with the Jewish communities. Religion is to count as a mandatory two-hour school subject, and religious education is to be firmly anchored in the education plan for nurseries, kindergartens and after-school care.

The CDU wants to keep the agreements with the churches. The same goes for the Jewish communities. Religion should be a fixed school subject with two hours. Daycare centers should also teach about religion. Church buildings should be preserved.

The CDU affirms religious freedom and sees the churches at the center of society. It justifies denominational instruction as a contribution to teaching values and to social cohesion. Civic engagement in churches and religious communities, for example in social services, education work or support associations, is to keep receiving support. The party wants to work to preserve church buildings and provide help where needed. Jewish life is to have a safe home in Saxony.