Freie Wähler on other topics

The Free Voters want to give villages and small and mid-sized towns priority in funding and capacity. By 2028, mobile coverage should reach everywhere and fiber-optic internet should be fully available. Planning and building rules should become much simpler.

The Free Voters want to strengthen villages and small towns. These should get more money first. By 2028, there should be cell phone coverage and fast internet everywhere. Building and planning should get easier. The number of wolves should be clearly regulated.

According to the platform, rural areas have been neglected since 1989 while politics focused on Dresden and Leipzig. The support would cover the economy, local services, education, infrastructure, and citizen participation, and would also ease pressure on the big cities. Simpler planning and building rules are meant to make infrastructure projects faster and cheaper. Mining and raw material extraction would be promoted, with environmental protection observed, to create jobs. The platform adds support for organic farming and clear regulation of wolf populations.

The Free Voters want to keep daycare centers, schools, doctors' practices, hospitals and shops in rural areas. They cite the principle of equivalent living conditions and call for more state money and financial incentives.

The Free Voters want to secure life in the countryside. There should still be daycare, schools, doctors and shops. The state should give more money for this. People in the countryside should live as well as people in cities.

The state is to pay a larger share of the costs of daycare centers and schools. Doctors of various specialties are to be attracted with money and good working conditions, supplemented by community nurses in villages; pharmacies are to get incentives to offer at least mobile services. The delivery rooms in Weißwasser and Ebersbach are not to close. Private shops for everyday needs are to get state help, such as rent-free premises or renovation grants. The platform also calls for support for clubs, recreation areas and meeting places in municipal and church buildings, plus municipal action plans for accessibility.