Grüne: program for the 2023 Bavaria state election

The Greens want to gear Bavaria's business subsidies of about one billion euros a year entirely toward climate neutrality. This "Bavarian Green Deal" is meant to support companies through the transition and, according to the platform, give the state a competitive edge.

Bavaria gives companies about one billion euros in support each year. The Greens want to tie this money to climate protection. Companies should use it to become climate-neutral. The party calls this the Bavarian Green Deal.

The Greens want to put one billion each year into expanding and modernizing infrastructure. This includes fast internet, power supply, buses and trains, rail freight and infrastructure for green hydrogen.

The Greens want to spend one billion each year on infrastructure. That means things like rail tracks, power lines and internet. Companies should be connected to rail more easily. Pipelines for hydrogen are also planned.

The Greens want to support the Mittelstand (small and mid-sized businesses) in the ecological transition with a 300 million euro fund. Funding programs would become easier to access, with one-stop advice and fixed processing deadlines.

Small and mid-sized companies have to adapt. The Greens want to help them with 300 million euros. Applying for support should get easier. Offices should answer within a fixed time.

The Greens want to promote regional economic cycles so that Bavaria is less vulnerable to global crises. A state strategy for resource efficiency and a circular economy agency would help firms with recycling.

The Greens want more goods to be made in the region. That way Bavaria should get through crises better. A new agency would help companies with recycling. Small breweries should also be kept.

The Greens want a procurement law for Bavaria that sets binding environmental, social and human rights requirements for public contracts. Small and mid-sized companies and start-ups would get a bigger share.

The state buys many things and awards contracts. The Greens want a new law for this. Companies would then have to follow rules on the environment and human rights. Small companies should get contracts more easily.

The Greens plan a start-up drive for young companies in all regions, with special offers for women and for people with a migration background. In the cultural and creative industries, social protection and minimum fees would apply.

The Greens want to help people start a company. Women and immigrants would get their own advice services. Artists and creative workers would get a minimum pay. Bavaria should also become a good place for game companies.

The Greens want to raise spending on research and development in Bavaria from 3.41 to 4 percent of economic output. Research funding would be guided by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

The Greens want to spend more money on research. Today it is 3.41 percent of economic output. It should become 4 percent. Research should serve sustainability.

The Greens want to use public money to double private investments in diverse founding teams, up to 50,000 euros. The aim is more founders and more investors from these groups.

Some groups rarely start companies, for example women or people with a migration background. The Greens want to change that. People who invest in such teams get the same amount on top from the state. This applies up to 50,000 euros. There will also be a second center for women founders.

The Greens want stronger support at universities for start-ups with sustainability goals. Think tanks are to bring together academia, business and society, and founders are to be allowed to use university rooms and technology.

The Greens want to support start-ups at universities. This is about ideas that help the environment and society. Founders should be able to use university rooms and data centers. That makes starting less risky.

The Greens want to refocus Bavaria's tourism funding on sustainability and adaptation to global warming. State money for snow cannons would end. Workers and residents in tourist regions are also meant to be better off.

The Greens want tourism that protects nature. The state should stop paying for snow cannons. Towns get advice and money to make the change. People who live and work there should have better lives and jobs.

The Greens want to boost sales of regional products with digital marketplaces, delivery services and funding. In every county, regional managers are to advise and connect producers and retailers.

Many people like to buy products from their region. The Greens want to support this. There should be online marketplaces for these products. Every county should have regional managers. They advise local producers and shops.

The Greens want to tackle the skilled labor shortage with stronger dual vocational training, regional education agencies for continuing education and welcome centers for international workers. Foreign qualifications would be recognized more easily.

Bavaria lacks many skilled workers. The Greens want to strengthen job training. New agencies would advise on further training. There would be contact points for skilled workers from abroad. Degrees from abroad should count more easily.

The Greens in Bavaria back the federal plan to introduce a Kindergrundsicherung (basic child allowance). It is meant to prevent children from living in poverty. In the party's view, every child has a right to take part in community life.

Some families have too little money for outings or the swimming pool. The federal government plans a basic child allowance. That is money from the state for children. The Greens in Bavaria support this plan. No child should be poor.

The Greens want to make it easier to switch between part-time and full-time work so that cutting hours no longer ends a career. They also call for a right to work from home and to work remotely.

Many people care for children or relatives besides their job. So the Greens want more flexible working hours. Switching between part-time and full-time should be easier. People who work less should still have a career. There should be a right to work from home.

The Greens want to pass an educational leave law (Bildungszeitgesetz) for Bavaria. Employees would be able to take ten days off work for training within any two-year period. Adult education would also receive considerably more funding.

The Greens want a new law for Bavaria. It gives workers days off to learn. Workers get ten days in two years. Courses for adults should also get more money.

The Greens want to work with labor unions to modernize and broaden employee co-determination in companies. They see it as a core part of democracy and the economic order, and as a precondition for workers and firms alike to benefit from digital change.

Workers should have more say in their companies. The Greens want to work with labor unions on this. There should be more works councils. These are elected groups that speak for workers.

The Greens want to create far more jobs in the publicly subsidized “social labor market” and give people with disabilities equal access to work. Sheltered workshops for people with disabilities would be reformed and opened up. People working there would be able to choose between staying in the workshop and moving, with support, to the regular labor market.

The Greens want more supported jobs for people who have been out of work for a long time. People with disabilities should find regular jobs more easily. Job coaches should support them over the long term. In sheltered workshops, people with and without disabilities should work together. Pay there should be fair.

The Greens want to pass a Tariftreuegesetz (a law tying public contracts to collectively agreed wages) for Bavaria. Public contracts would go only to companies that comply with collective agreements, pay a minimum rate and meet further social and environmental criteria. The party aims to counter companies leaving collective bargaining.

The state gives many contracts to companies. The Greens want a new law for this. Only companies that pay union-agreed wages should get contracts. These companies should also meet social and environmental rules.

The Greens want to give older people more opportunities to take part in society: meeting places in every municipality, better accessibility, support against loneliness and learning opportunities. Anyone who has spent much of their life working, raising children or caring for others should get a pension above the level of basic income support. Women in particular are to be better protected from poverty in old age.

Older people should be able to stay part of community life. Every town should get meeting places. Buses and trains should get better. Nobody should be lonely. People who worked for a long time should get a pension above basic welfare.

The Greens want to introduce a permanent monthly allowance for deaf people in Bavaria, modeled on the existing allowance for blind people. It is meant to help deaf and hard-of-hearing people cover the extra costs of their disability and take part in society on equal terms.

Deaf people should get money from the state every month. People who hear poorly should get it too. Blind people already get this kind of help. The money can pay for interpreters, for example. This helps them take part in daily life.

The Greens want the Bavarian state to ensure fair wages when it awards public contracts, in order to shrink the low-wage sector. To address poverty, they propose statewide participation conferences, ongoing poverty monitoring and making support such as a social pass available across Bavaria.

The state of Bavaria gives contracts to companies. The Greens want fair wages on these contracts. Everyone should be able to live on their pay. The Greens also want to help poor people more. For example, a social pass should exist everywhere.

The Greens want to gear Bavaria's budget toward climate protection and run a sustainability check on major budget items. Subsidies they consider harmful to the climate and environment would end, for example for road building and regional airports.

The Greens want to use state money for climate protection. Every important expense gets checked. If it harms the climate, it is cut. This applies to new roads and small airports, for example.

The Greens want more state investment in climate-friendly transportation, education, digitalization and energy supply. Caps on investment that they consider harmful to the climate would be abolished. Borrowing by state-owned holdings would also be used.

The Greens want to put more money into schools, rail, internet and energy. Fixed limits on such spending would go. Companies owned by the state could also take out loans for this. The party says this helps future generations too.

The Greens want to give cities, towns and counties more money, largely without earmarks. Areas such as the courts, police, fire services and the public health service are also to be soundly funded.

The Greens want to give cities and towns more money. The towns should decide for themselves how to spend it. Police, fire services, courts and rescue services should also get enough money.

The Greens want Bavaria's property tax to depend on location and building value as well, and to introduce a Grundsteuer C (a tax on undeveloped building land) from 2025. At the federal level they back an inheritance tax reform that closes loopholes and spares owner-occupied homes.

The Greens want to change the property tax. This is a tax on land and houses. It should also depend on location and value. From 2025 there would be a special tax on empty building plots. The tax on inheritances should change too.

The Greens want to equip the tax authorities better so they can act effectively against tax evasion and financial crime. Vacant posts would be filled and new ones created.

Some people do not pay their taxes honestly. The Greens want to go after this more strongly. Tax offices would get more staff. There would also be more better-paid jobs.

The Greens want to merge the development institutions LfA and BayernLaBo into one development and transformation bank that finances climate-neutral investment. The state's assets would be put on a climate-neutral path.

Bavaria has two development banks. The Greens want to turn them into one bank. It would give money for climate-friendly projects. The state's own money would also be invested in a climate-friendly way.

The Greens want to replace the cycle of demolition and new construction with a culture of conversion. New buildings would in future only be built with recycled and sustainable materials. Bavaria's building code would become a „Umbauordnung“ (conversion code).

The Greens would rather convert old buildings than tear them down. New buildings should only use materials that are good for the environment. That includes recycled materials. The building rules in Bavaria would be changed for this.

Given high construction costs and a shortage of skilled workers, the Greens want new approaches to affordable housing. A building type „E“ would allow construction with fewer standards, and the requirement to provide car parking spaces would be suspended. Less red tape and digital procedures are also planned.

Building is expensive and skilled workers are missing. So the Greens want to make building simpler. A new building type would have fewer rules. Builders would no longer have to build parking spaces. Building offices should work digitally.

The Greens want to create new housing mainly by building upward and densifying within existing towns. Adding stories and converting attics would be subsidized and approved more easily. The reasons given are Bavaria's high land consumption and savings on land costs.

Every day, many fields and meadows in Bavaria disappear under concrete. So the Greens want to build higher. Buildings should get more floors. Getting a permit for this should be easier. Cities should also become greener.

The Greens want to curb speculation with land. They plan a Grundsteuer C (a property tax on building land) that gives municipalities a tool to steer undeveloped plots. The municipal right of first refusal would also be secured and a state fund for land acquisition set up.

Some people buy building land and wait until it gets more expensive. The Greens want to make that harder. Towns should be able to charge their own tax on empty building land. A state fund helps towns buy land.

The Greens want more barrier-free housing so that people can live independently regardless of age or disability. The building code would set stricter quotas, conversions would get more funding, and shared housing for young and old would be supported. According to the platform, Bavaria lacks about 2.9 million suitable homes.

Bavaria lacks many homes without barriers. The Greens want more of these homes. New buildings should have more homes for wheelchair users. Converting old homes should get more money. Old and young people should also be able to live together.

The Greens want to create 10,000 new social housing units every year that stay rent-restricted for at least 40 years. The state of Bavaria would align its land policy with the common good and hand out its own land only under long-term ground leases. In the party's view, land is not a commodity.

The Greens want 10,000 new social housing units every year. These homes should stay cheap for at least 40 years. Bavaria should no longer sell its land. It should only lease it for a long time. Housing cooperatives should get more money.

The Greens want to curb rent increases more strongly in tight housing markets. The Mietpreisbremse (rent brake) would apply permanently, and the cap that limits rent increases in existing leases would be lowered. Municipalities would get more tools against the misuse of housing for other purposes.

The Greens want rents to rise more slowly. The rent brake should apply forever. It limits the rent in a new lease. Landlords should be allowed to raise rents by less. Rental homes should not turn into condos so easily.

The Greens also want to support home ownership by lowering the extra costs of buying. The real estate transfer tax would drop substantially for a first owner-occupied home, and broker fees would be paid by whoever hires the broker. A bonus would reward renovating and using existing buildings in town centers.

The Greens want to make buying a first home cheaper. The tax on the purchase should drop a lot. Whoever hires the broker should pay the broker. People who renovate an old house in town should get a bonus. Empty homes should be rented out again.

The Greens want to launch a modernization program for all social housing units in Bavaria and invest 500 million euros a year in it. Oil and gas heating systems are to be replaced and buildings retrofitted to protect people on low incomes from high heating costs.

Heating should be affordable. So the Greens want to renovate all social housing in Bavaria. Old oil and gas heaters will be removed. The buildings should use less energy. The party wants to spend 500 million euros every year on this.

The Greens want to let rural municipalities issue simple building orders so that ready-to-build plots are developed quickly. Municipalities are also to get more freely usable money, for example through regional budgets, and funding procedures are to be simplified.

Some plots in villages stay empty for a long time. The Greens want towns to be able to require building there. That way less new land is needed. Towns should also get more money of their own. To get it, they must work with neighboring towns.

The Greens want to support trips for children and young people in Bavaria. Families with very little money should also be able to go on vacation. To that end, the income limits of Bavaria's family vacation program would be raised.

The Greens want to support trips for children and young people. Poor families should be able to go on vacation too. Bavaria has a program that helps pay for this. More families should get this money.

The Greens want to anchor children's rights in the Bavarian constitution and expand protection from violence online and offline. A children's commissioner attached to the state government would publish a child protection report every year. The party cites Article 19 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

The Greens want to protect children better from violence. Children's rights should be written into the Bavarian constitution. A new person in the government looks after child protection. That person writes a report about it every year.

The Greens want a youth center in every municipality and direct involvement of young people in decisions. Clubs and providers of out-of-school youth work as well as the Bayerischer Jugendring (Bavarian Youth Council) would be strengthened and reliably funded. Young people should be able to shape their free time as they wish.

The Greens want a youth center in every town. Young people should have a say in decisions. Clubs that do youth work should get more support. Rural areas should get more offers for queer young people.

The Greens want to make the rules on matching funds in child and youth services more flexible and less bureaucratic. Small providers in particular are meant to benefit. Youth centers would also be able to offer activities built around video games.

Youth service groups often must bring their own money to get funding. The Greens want to change that. Volunteer work and goods should also count. Youth centers should also get money for playing video games together.

The Greens want more and better daycare centers and plan an investment program and a skilled-staff program to get there. Opening and booking hours would be geared more closely to families' needs, for example for parents working shifts.

The Greens want more daycare places. Daycare centers should have hours that fit families better. This helps parents who work shifts. Daycare workers should earn more. There should be more staff for the children.

The Greens want to anchor nutrition and ecology more firmly in daycare centers, schools and vocational training. A municipal garden and kitchen program is meant to introduce children to growing and cooking food, and a training drive is to make food trades more attractive. People who take discarded food out of the trash should not be punished.

Children should grow food and cook in daycare and school. There is a program for gardens and kitchens for this. Training for cooks, bakers and similar jobs should get better. Eco topics should matter more in training. People who save food from the trash get no penalty.

The Greens want to make training in the skilled trades more attractive: master craftsman courses would be free, and all schools would have two mandatory internships and trades project days from grade 7. Training content and vocational schools would be modernized.

The Greens want to strengthen the skilled trades. The course to become a master craftsman would be free. Students would do two internships from grade 7. Vocational schools would become more modern.

The Greens want full-time system administrators to look after IT at every school. This is meant to professionalize the technology and give teachers more time for their core tasks.

At schools, often nobody has the steady job of looking after the computers. The Greens want to hire experts for this. They maintain the technology and help teachers. Then teachers have more time for teaching.

The Greens want studying in Bavaria not to depend on background or money. They reject fees, want to reduce admission restrictions, and want to give the Studierendenwerke (student services organizations) more money for dorms.

Everyone should be able to study in Bavaria, even with little money. The Greens are against fees for studying. They want more student dorms. Fewer subjects should have a grade cutoff. Students with worries should get advice more easily.

The Greens want to bring back the Verfasste Studierendenschaft (statutory student body) in Bavaria and organize universities more democratically. They reject the Bavarian Higher Education Innovation Act in its current form and want to revise it.

Students should have more say at their university. The Greens want to bring back an official student body for this. All other German states have one. Half of the seats on committees should go to women. The university law should change.

The Greens want to remove barriers for people with disabilities in study and research. This includes accessible buildings and digital services, direct support for students, and more influence for disability officers.

People with disabilities should be able to study more easily. University buildings and websites should be accessible. Universities get more money for this. They should also provide sign language interpreters. Disability officers should be allowed to vote on committees.

The Greens want to clear the renovation backlog at Bavaria's universities with a targeted program that takes priority over new prestige buildings. A state program for energy retrofits and renewable energy is meant to help universities reach their self-set goal of climate neutrality by 2028.

Many university buildings in Bavaria are in bad shape. The Greens want to repair them first, before costly new buildings. The universities want to be climate-neutral by 2028. A state program would provide money for this. New buildings must be climate-neutral.

The Greens want to secure core funding for research and teaching in all subjects, instead of handing out more and more money only as time-limited project grants. Research policy is to become broader and focus on future challenges such as climate, energy and social cohesion.

Universities should get enough steady money for research and teaching. So far, much money only goes to single projects for a limited time. The Greens want to fund research in many fields. These include climate, energy and transport. All universities should report on their sustainability.

The Greens want to improve working conditions in research and teaching and curb chains of fixed-term contracts. They back a comprehensive reform of the Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz (the law on fixed-term academic contracts), want to create additional permanent positions, and call for a collective agreement for student employees.

Many young researchers only have temporary contracts. The Greens want to create more permanent jobs at universities. The law on temporary contracts in academia should change. Students who work at the university should get a collective agreement. A collective agreement sets pay and working hours.

The Greens want to strengthen social work at all Bavarian schools and introduce teams drawn from different professions there. Child and youth services would get more university places, paid practical semesters, a digital pact and better funding for independent providers. The aim is for every child to receive the support needed for their development.

The Greens want more help for children at schools. Every school should have social work. Experts from different jobs would work together there. Youth services should also get more money and more trained staff.

The Greens want early language support for children who do not speak German at home and want to keep existing programs for this. At the same time, heritage languages would be promoted and accepted at secondary schools in place of the second foreign language.

Some children do not speak German at home. They should get early help learning German. The Greens also want to support the family's language. That language could replace the second foreign language at school.

The Greens want to equip every school with enough teaching, special-education and psychology staff. Step by step, a second educator would work in each classroom, starting in elementary schools and Mittelschulen (lower secondary schools).

All children should get the help they need at school. Schools should have more specialists. Bit by bit, a second educator should work in each class. This starts in elementary and lower secondary schools.

The Greens want to scrap the binding grade averages that decide which secondary school a child may attend; parents would decide after counseling. They also want to allow longer joint schooling and alternatives to numerical grades.

Today, grades in fourth grade decide a child's next school. The Greens want to end that. Parents should decide after getting advice. Children should be able to learn together for longer. Schools should be allowed to drop number grades.

The Greens want to offer high-quality all-day schooling to all pupils, not only in elementary school. Regional, organic school meals would be made affordable for every family through subsidies.

The Greens want all-day programs for all pupils. This should include older children too. School meals should be healthy and come from the region. The state should help pay so everyone can afford them.

The Greens want to provide every schoolchild in Bavaria with a digital device and keep it up to date. Media literacy and computer science would carry more weight in class so young people can assess information and recognize disinformation.

Every child in Bavaria should get a digital device for school. The devices should always be up to date. Children should learn to tell news from opinion. They should also learn more computer science.

The Greens want to require class councils and school parliaments at all schools and give them decision-making powers and a budget of their own. Civic education and history would be expanded in every grade, and ethics as a subject would be upgraded.

Pupils should help decide things at their school. Every school should have class councils and a school parliament. These get their own money. Teachers and parents should also have more say. There should be more lessons about politics.

The Greens want to counter the teacher shortage by paying elementary and Mittelschule teachers at the A13 salary grade and raising pay for trainee teachers. Teacher training would move to a bachelor's-master's system.

Bavaria does not have enough teachers. So the Greens want to pay more at elementary and lower secondary schools. Training should change too. Everyone learns together first and picks a school type later. Office staff should take work off teachers.

The Greens want to guarantee all young people in Bavaria a vocational training place. A statewide matching program would connect companies and applicants. Anyone still left without a place would get a binding offer at a training center run outside individual companies.

Every young person in Bavaria should get a training place. A program should bring companies and applicants together. Anyone who finds no place gets a firm offer. The training then takes place at a special training center. It ends with a recognized job qualification.

The Greens want to make it easier for people with disabilities to attend local daycare centers, mainstream schools, vocational training, continuing education and university. Every type of school would have special-needs expertise, and switching between special schools and mainstream schools would be possible in every grade.

Children with and without disabilities should be able to learn together. The Greens want to make this easier in daycare, school and college. Mixed daycare groups should be smaller and have more staff. Every kind of school should have special-needs experts. Children should be able to change schools in any grade.

The Greens want to amend the school funding law so that lunch at Bavarian schools is subsidized by the state and free of charge for families. This is meant to bring uniform standards and organic quotas and to give local organic farms new customers.

The Greens want good lunches at all schools. The state should pay toward them. Families should not pay a fee. There should also be organic food and plant-based food. This also helps organic farmers in Bavaria.

The Greens want to give daycare centers and schools more staff and money to support children with differing starting points in a more targeted way, especially with language. At the same time, democracy education and anti-discrimination work would be expanded and more teachers with an immigrant background hired.

Children should be able to learn German better in daycare and school. There should be more staff and more money for this. Parents should get advice in several languages. Schools should do more against racism. More teachers should have an immigrant background themselves.

The Greens want to guarantee enough midwives, obstetricians and pediatricians everywhere in Bavaria. Daycare centers, after-school care and schools would offer more exercise, psychosocial support and state-subsidized healthy meals. The party argues that a healthy lifestyle learned in childhood usually lasts into adulthood.

The Greens want children to grow up healthy. There should be enough midwives and children's doctors everywhere. Daycare and school should offer more sports. The state pays part of the cost for healthy food there.

The Greens want to anchor health promotion and prevention across all policy areas and make them accessible to everyone regardless of income or disability. Municipal public health offices would get more money, more staff and better digital tools. Municipalities would also receive help with heat action plans.

The Greens want to keep people from getting sick in the first place. Everyone should have access to preventive care. Public health offices should get more money and more staff. Towns should make plans for extreme heat. The state should advise and fund them.

The Greens want comprehensive, high-quality health care throughout Bavaria, especially in rural areas. Needs would be assessed across sectors, more licensed slots for specialists treating publicly insured patients would be created, and municipal health and care centers would be supported.

In rural areas, the doctor is often far away. The Greens want good care everywhere in Bavaria. There should be more places for specialist doctors who treat publicly insured patients. Towns should be able to set up their own health centers. Doctors, hospitals and care services should work together better.

The Greens want everyone in Bavaria to be able to get to a suitable hospital within half an hour in an emergency or when labor begins. They oppose further hospital privatizations. Telemedicine is meant to cut long trips and waiting times.

The Greens want hospitals close to people. In an emergency, the trip should take 30 minutes at most. The same goes for giving birth. Hospitals should no longer be sold to private companies. Doctors should also be able to advise by video.

The Greens want to merge the dispatch centers of the on-call medical service and the emergency number across Bavaria so that callers get to the right place faster. Emergency medical services are to be organized by a single provider structure, become more digital and be expanded where needed. The platform says this secures quality and eases the load on crews.

The Greens want to improve emergency medical services. The numbers 112 and 116117 should work closely together. That way people get the right help faster. Crews should work more with computers. Students should practice first aid every year.

The Greens want to give nurses, midwives, therapists and medical assistants more tasks and responsibility in patient care. Training and university places are to be matched to actual need and increased. The platform points to weaknesses exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Greens want to strengthen health care jobs. Nurses, midwives and therapists should be allowed to decide more on their own. There should be more places for training and study. People training as therapists should get paid for it.

The Greens want to expand home care as well as day, night and short-term care, which is also meant to relieve family caregivers. Nursing is to become more attractive through more staff, better pay and broader powers. The Vereinigung der Pflegenden in Bayern (Bavarian nurses' association) would be turned into a nursing chamber.

The Greens want more care services. For example, care at home or care for a short time. This also helps family members who give care. Nurses should earn more money. There should be more nurses. Nurses should get their own chamber. A chamber speaks for a profession.

The Greens want people in a mental health crisis to get help quickly and close to home. To that end, more therapy slots would be created and competence centers set up as a first point of contact. The platform calls waiting for months unacceptable.

The Greens want better help for people with mental illness. Nobody should wait months for therapy. So there should be more therapy slots. New centers should show where a slot is free. Refugee children should get special help if they need it.

The Greens want to improve midwifery care with a funding program of 6 million euros a year and with midwife-led delivery rooms. Medicine should also take more account of differences between the sexes, including through a university chair for gender medicine. The platform argues that illnesses are otherwise detected later.

The Greens want to give midwives more financial support. Midwives help with births. There should be delivery rooms led by midwives. Women should be able to choose where they give birth. Medicine should pay more attention to women and men. Illnesses often show up differently in them.

The Greens want women to be able to have an abortion close to where they live and plan a statewide care concept for this. Young people and recipients of social benefits would get contraceptives free of charge. State funding for fertility treatment would be open to all couples.

The Greens want women to be able to end a pregnancy near their home. There should be a plan for all of Bavaria. Young people should get birth control for free. So should people who receive social benefits. All couples should get help with fertility treatment.

The Greens want a drug policy built on youth protection, education, prevention and care. Municipalities would be allowed to set up supervised drug consumption rooms, and drug checking would be introduced in Bavaria. The amount of cannabis for personal use that goes unpunished would rise to 15 grams.

The Greens want more education and help on drugs. Cities should be allowed to set up rooms for safer drug use. People should be able to have their drugs tested for dangerous substances. People with a little cannabis for themselves should not be punished. The limit should be 15 grams.

The Greens want to establish care support centers with advice services in every county to relieve people caring for relatives. They also want enough places in residential and home care in all municipalities.

Many people care for their relatives themselves. Often these are women. The Greens want to help them. Every county should have an advice center for care. There should also be enough care places everywhere.

The Greens want to create more counseling centers for mental health and push for more therapeutic professionals. Every school is to have social and youth workers so that overload is spotted early.

The Greens want more help for mental health. There should be more counseling centers. There should also be more therapists and doctors for this. Social workers should work at every school. They should notice early when a child is overwhelmed.

The Greens want to ease the path into the Bavarian labor market for workers and skilled professionals from abroad. Foreign qualifications would be recognized more readily, a permanent right to stay would be guaranteed, and Welcome Centers would be set up across the state. The party cites the labor shortage in Bavarian companies as the reason.

Bavaria does not have enough workers. The Greens want to make it easier for people from abroad to work here. Foreign degrees should be accepted more easily. Refugees should be able to work more easily. New advice centers should help with all questions.

The Greens want people who have lived in Bavaria for some time to be able to vote and run in municipal and district elections even without German citizenship. They also plan an integration unit in the State Chancellery, municipal integration centers and more integration and language courses.

Some people have lived in Bavaria for a long time but have no German passport. They should be allowed to vote in local and district elections. They should also be able to run for office. There should be more language courses and new integration centers.

The Greens want to make it easier for asylum seekers to work and to scrap work bans. Foreign qualifications are to be recognized faster. The platform argues this eases integration and helps with the shortage of skilled workers and labor.

The Greens want asylum seekers to be allowed to work. Work bans should end. Degrees from other countries should count faster. The party says this helps people and companies.

The Greens want to gradually convert the AnkER facilities (large combined arrival and return centers) into regular reception centers and house refugees in decentralized accommodation as quickly as possible. Municipalities are to be reimbursed for their actual costs of housing, care and integration. Municipal integration centers are to bring all local services together.

The Greens want to close the AnkER centers. These are large shelters for asylum seekers. Refugees should live in smaller places instead. Towns and cities should get more money from the state. German classes should start quickly.

The Greens do not want to forcibly deport anyone to countries at war or in crisis, and want to cut back deportation detention significantly. Using the federal “Chancen-Aufenthaltsrecht” (opportunity residence law), repeated short-term toleration status is to end. At the federal level the party advocates abolishing deportation detention.

The Greens want no deportations to countries with war or crisis. Fewer people should be locked up before deportation. People with a Duldung should get a secure right to stay. A Duldung means the deportation is only on hold.

The Greens want more women in professorships and want to set appointment quotas using a cascade model. Equality and anti-discrimination offices are to be strengthened, and academic work is to become easier to combine with family.

There are too few women professors. So the Greens want quotas for new professorships. The quota depends on the share of women at the level below. Offices that fight unfair treatment should get more money and powers. Study and research should fit better with family life.

The Greens want to close the pay gap between women and men and ensure equal pay for work of equal value. People working in social professions would get more money and better working conditions.

Women often earn less than men. The Greens want to change that. Women should get the same pay for work of equal value. People in social jobs should be paid better. This includes nursing care and daycare.

The Greens want an action plan and a special investment program to remove physical, social and communication barriers. In the platform's view, the state goal “Bayern barrierefrei 2023” (barrier-free Bavaria by 2023) was clearly missed. Municipalities and districts would receive money for inclusion, and the administration would provide information in plain language.

The Greens want to remove barriers for people with disabilities. There should be a plan and extra money for this. Buses, shops and doctors' offices should be reachable for everyone. People with disabilities should have a say in planning. Public offices should use plain language.

The Greens want equal pay for work of equal value, more women in leadership and a better balance between family and work. The platform calls for binding quotas in the public sphere, equality conditions for public contracts and subsidies, and the goal of making all companies family-friendly by 2035.

Women and men should earn the same for work of equal value. More women should become bosses. The state and its companies should have fixed quotas. Companies with state contracts must do something for equality. By 2035, all companies should be family-friendly.

The Greens want to change electoral law so that women are entitled to half of the seats in parliament. A "half the power" law would achieve this through two-member constituency duos and an equal allocation of list seats.

The Greens want a new election law. Half of the seats in the state parliament should go to women. Each voting district should elect a duo. Seats from party lists should also be shared equally.

The Greens want to fund women's shelters, hotlines and counseling centers better and create more places in order to implement the Istanbul Convention. The platform argues that more and more victims are seeking help and that these facilities' situation threatens their existence.

The Greens want to protect women better from violence. Women's shelters and counseling centers should get more money and more places. After a rape, there should be good emergency care. Evidence should be collected without giving a name.

The Greens want to advance full equality for LGBTIQ* people and rainbow families. Bavaria is to get an action plan for sexual and gender diversity, and the state government is to appoint a queer commissioner. The platform points out that Bavaria is the only German state without such a plan.

The Greens want to protect queer people better. Queer means, for example, lesbian, gay or trans. Bavaria should get an action plan for this. One person in the government should take care of the issue. There should be more counseling, also in rural areas.

The Greens want an anti-discrimination law for Bavaria and a central state office that people affected can turn to. In addition, there is to be an action plan against racism, antisemitism and group-focused hostility.

The Greens want a law against discrimination in Bavaria. Discrimination means someone is treated unfairly, for example because of where they come from. A new office would advise people affected. There would also be a plan against racism and hatred of Jews.

The Greens want Bavaria to be climate-neutral by 2035. A new climate law with a legally binding CO2 budget aligned with the Paris climate goals is meant to ensure this.

The Greens want Bavaria to be climate-neutral by 2035. Climate-neutral means the state no longer harms the climate. A new climate law should make this happen. The law sets how much CO2 Bavaria may still emit.

The Greens want to strengthen citizen energy projects, regional energy cooperatives and municipally owned utilities. This is meant to let people in Bavaria invest in the energy transition. They also plan a training and upskilling drive for skilled workers.

The Greens want to support energy projects run by citizens. Utilities owned by cities and towns should also get stronger. People should be able to put their savings into clean energy. More skilled workers should be trained for the energy transition.

The Greens want to increase wind power generation in Bavaria sixfold to 30 billion kilowatt-hours by 2030. To get there, two percent of the land in every region would be designated for wind power by the end of 2024, and procedures and grid expansion would be sped up.

The Greens want much more electricity from wind. By 2030 there should be six times as much as now. Every region should set aside land for wind turbines. Permits should come faster. The power grid should also grow faster.

The Greens want to quadruple solar power generation to 60 billion kilowatt-hours by 2030, primarily on rooftops. A solar requirement would apply to new buildings of all kinds and to major roof renovations.

The Greens want four times as much solar power by 2030. The panels should mainly go on roofs. New buildings should have to have solar panels. This should also apply when someone renovates most of a roof.

The Greens want to expand electricity storage so that solar and wind power is also available at night and when the wind is calm. Climate-friendly backup power plants would provide additional security of supply.

Power from sun and wind is not always there. So the Greens want to build more storage. This includes large batteries in the power grid. Climate-friendly power plants should serve as a reserve.

The Greens reject any return to nuclear power. They commit to handling interim storage sites responsibly and to the search for a final repository.

The Greens do not want nuclear power anymore. Nuclear plants should not go back online. Nuclear waste should be stored safely. The search for a permanent storage site should continue.

The Greens want a Bavarian heat law so that all buildings are heated in a climate-neutral way by 2040. Municipalities would draw up heat plans, and funding programs would make renovations affordable for renters and owners. Heat pumps and heating networks would carry the supply.

The Greens want a heat law for Bavaria. By 2040 all buildings should be heated without harming the climate. Every town should make a heat plan. The state should give money to renovate homes. Heat pumps and heating networks should do the heating.

The Greens want to make energy saving a lasting habit. Public buildings would be checked for savings through an eco-audit, and low-income households would get help buying efficient appliances.

The Greens want Bavaria to save energy. Government offices should check where they can save energy. Citizens should get regular tips on saving. People with little money should get help to buy efficient appliances.

The Greens want to buy back the hydropower plants on the Danube, Isar, Lech and Main from Uniper. They would become part of a new public energy company called Bayern-Energie that invests in renewable plants.

The Greens want to buy back hydropower plants. Today the plants belong to the company Uniper. Bavaria should also found its own energy company. This company should build plants for clean energy.

The Greens want to make adapting to heat and flash floods a mandatory task for municipalities. To that end, municipalities are to receive at least one billion euros over five years through funding programs.

Heat and heavy rain are a danger. The Greens want towns to prepare for this. It should become a duty. Bavaria should give towns money and advice for it. The plan is at least one billion euros over five years.

The Greens want to upgrade ground-mounted solar installations ecologically so that additional biotopes emerge there. Participating solar parks are to receive a one-time payment in return.

Solar plants often stand on meadows and fields. The Greens want more plants and animals there. The operators should get money for this once. This way solar power and nature protection should fit together.

The Greens want to involve agriculture more closely in climate protection. By 2030, 40 percent of drained peatlands are to be rewetted, livestock numbers reduced by 20 percent and mineral fertilizer use cut by 20 percent.

The Greens want farmers to help protect the climate. Dry peatlands should become wet again. By 2030 there should be 20 percent fewer farm animals. In return, the animals should have more space. Farmers should use less artificial fertilizer.

The Greens want to make solar installations mandatory for new buildings and when roofs are replaced. Compliance with energy rules for buildings would have to be documented and checked. Families with low and middle incomes would receive a renovation bonus.

The Greens want a rule that requires solar panels. It applies to new buildings and to new roofs. The state should check whether buildings follow the energy rules. Families with little money get help with renovating.

The Greens want to retrofit all 4,800 Bavarian schools for energy efficiency and fit them with solar panels. In the platform's view, schools should be models of sustainability and climate protection; environmental education would get more money and time.

The Greens want to renovate all 4,800 schools in Bavaria. The schools should then use less energy. Solar panels should go on the roofs. Children should learn more about the environment and climate at school.

The Greens want to develop plans against heat stress together with municipalities and counties. They argue that heat waves are becoming more frequent because of the climate crisis and especially endanger small children, people with pre-existing conditions and older people.

The Greens want plans against extreme heat. Every town should have such a plan. Heat is dangerous for small children, sick people and old people. More green on buildings and less concrete should help.

The Greens want to expand wind and solar power quickly and thereby keep electricity prices low in the long run. Municipalities would fit their roofs with solar panels, and residents would get support for their own systems and for energy cooperatives. A Bavarian hardship fund is meant to help groups hit especially hard.

The Greens want much more power from wind and sun. That should keep power cheap for a long time. Towns should put solar panels on their roofs. People should get help with their own solar panels. People with big money worries should get money from a relief fund.

The Greens want people and municipalities near wind turbines and solar parks to benefit financially. Operators are to get incentives to offer cheaper electricity rates, and municipalities are to receive an additional bonus for renewable energy produced on their territory.

Wind turbines and solar parks often stand in rural areas. The Greens want people nearby to benefit. They should get cheaper electricity. Towns should also get extra money. They could use it to pay for a swimming pool, for example.

The Greens want to establish a regional energy agency in every county and independent city. It is meant to be an easily accessible local contact point for the energy transition, since the platform says many strands come together at the municipal level.

The Greens want energy agencies all over Bavaria. These are offices that give advice on energy. Every county and every big city should have one. They help with solar panels and funding forms, for example.

The Greens want to designate many new nature reserves and link biotopes across Bavaria. Habitats such as floodplains, moors and near-natural forests would be restored and preserved to slow species loss.

The Greens want more areas for nature protection. Animals and plants should be able to live there safely. The areas should be linked to each other. Moors, floodplains and forests should become more natural again.

The Greens want to set up an action plan to protect and restore habitats, waters and biodiversity, funded with at least one billion euros over five years. Peatlands are to be rewetted, and no new ski facilities are to be built in the Alps.

The Greens want to protect nature in Bavaria better. They want a plan with many measures. The plan gets at least one billion euros over five years. Peatlands should become wet again. No new ski lifts should be built in the Alps.

The Greens want stronger protection for drinking water and groundwater: more water protection areas, a "Wassercent" (a levy on water extraction) and a central groundwater register. Drinking water supply is to stay in public hands because the program regards water as a public good.

The Greens want to protect drinking water. There should be more water protection areas. Anyone who takes groundwater should pay a small fee. This is called the Wassercent. Drinking water supply should stay with the state and the towns.

The Greens want to keep rivers, streams and lakes clean and restore them to a natural state. Landscapes and municipalities are to be redesigned to store water like a sponge, which is meant to help against drought and protect against flooding at the same time.

The Greens want clean rivers and lakes. Cities and landscapes should be able to hold more water. This is called a sponge city. It helps in dry times and in floods. Rainwater should be collected.

The Greens want to quickly convert Bavaria's forests into mixed forests rich in species and structure so they can better withstand warming. The state forest is to become a "climate forest" geared to the common good rather than profit, while local timber is to be used more.

The Greens want to change the forests in Bavaria. Mixed forests with many kinds of trees should grow. Such forests cope better with heat. The state's forest should mainly serve the climate and the people. There should be more foresters.

The Greens want to establish a third Bavarian national park in the Steigerwald by the end of 2027 at the latest and designate further protected and wilderness areas based on scientific criteria. To ease coexistence with predators such as wolves, livestock protection is to be funded across Bavaria.

The Greens want a new national park in Bavaria. It should be in the Steigerwald forest. It should exist by the end of 2027. There should be more protected areas. Farmers should get help to protect their animals from wolves.

The Greens want a binding rule that halves daily land consumption in Bavaria to five hectares. The goal is to be reached in stages by 2028; the party says this preserves the landscape and revives town centers.

A lot of land is built on in Bavaria every day. The Greens want to cut that in half. No more than five hectares a day should be newly built on. This should be a fixed rule. The goal should be reached by 2028.

The Greens want to promote closed material cycles. Anyone who has an electrical appliance repaired would get half the cost back as a bonus, so that less electronic waste is produced.

The Greens want less waste. If you have an electrical device repaired, you get half the cost back. Repair cafés get support. The state should also think of the environment when it buys things.

The Greens want to appoint an independent animal welfare commissioner and have livestock farms and slaughterhouses inspected more often and without notice. Animal testing is to be gradually replaced under a phase-out plan, cruel breeding banned and animal shelters better funded.

The Greens want to protect animals better. An independent person should look after animal welfare in Bavaria. Farms and slaughterhouses should be checked more often, also without warning. Animal testing should become less and later stop. Animal shelters get more money.

The Greens want to boost demand for regional, organic and plant-based food from Bavaria and make Bio-Regio a standard label. In state-run cafeterias, at least half of the dishes are to be organic by 2025. Farmers should be able to make a reliable living from their work.

The Greens want more organic food from Bavaria. In state cafeterias, every second dish should be organic by 2025. There should be meat-free food everywhere too. Farmers should get fair prices. Long contracts with cafeterias should help farmers.

The Greens believe the statutory target of 30 percent organic farming by 2030 can be reached sooner and that even half of all farmland could be farmed organically. To get there, they want to fund long-term projects and strengthen organic farming in research and teaching.

By 2030, 30 percent of fields in Bavaria should be organic. That is already the law. The Greens want more: half of the fields should be organic. They want to fund organic projects for this. Half of the money for farm research should go to organic farming.

The Greens aim for agriculture without synthetic chemical pesticides and want glyphosate and neonicotinoids outlawed across Europe. At the same time, farms are to be paid better for nature, climate and species protection, and waters and soils are to be better protected.

The Greens want no chemical sprays on the fields. Two sprays should be banned in all of Europe. Farmers should get more money for protecting nature. Along streams and rivers there should be strips with no fertilizer. Fields and meadows should not be built over.

The Greens want Bavarian agriculture to stay free of genetic engineering and count new genomic techniques as genetic engineering too. They reject patents on seeds and animals; old varieties are to be preserved through a funding program.

The Greens want no genetic engineering on the fields. This also covers new gene methods. Food and animal feed made with it should be clearly labeled. Nobody should hold a patent on seeds or animals. Old plant varieties should be kept.

The Greens want livestock farming to be guided by the animals' needs and to increase funding for barn conversions. Husbandry levels 1 and 2 are to be phased out by 2035, pasture grazing expanded and antibiotic use sharply reduced.

The Greens want farm animals to have a better life. Farmers get money for better barns with more space. More animals should go out to pasture. The two lowest levels of animal keeping should be gone by 2035. Animals should get far fewer antibiotics.

The Greens reject expanding roads or building new ones and want only to maintain and repair the existing network. The money saved is to go to public transit, state transit allocations to municipalities are to be doubled immediately, and the rail network modernized.

The Greens do not want to build new roads. Old roads should be repaired. The money saved should go to buses and trains. Towns should get twice as much money for buses and trains. Old rail lines should run again.

The Greens want to implement the Radentscheid Bayern (a citizens' cycling initiative), pass a cycling law and raise cycling's share of traffic from 11 to 25 percent by 2030. Municipalities are to get more freedom over 30 km/h zones, parking fees and pedestrian crossings; the program names Vision Zero, meaning no traffic deaths, as the goal.

The Greens want more and safer bike paths in Bavaria. There should be a cycling law for this. More people should ride bikes. Towns should be allowed to decide on 30 km/h zones themselves. No one should die in traffic anymore.

The Greens see the car as remaining part of mobility, especially in rural areas, but electric in the future. They want to build out public charging everywhere, bring electric car sharing to every municipality and push at the federal level for a speed limit on highways.

Many people in the countryside need a car. The Greens want cars to run on electricity in the future. There should be charging stations everywhere. People should be able to share electric cars in every town. There should be a speed limit on highways.

The Greens want to align air and ship traffic with climate neutrality. They reject a third runway in Munich as well as subsidies for and expansion of regional airports, and want to gradually replace short-haul flights with trains.

Flying harms the climate a lot. The Greens do not want a third runway at Munich Airport. Small airports should get no more subsidies. There should be no flights at night. Ships should run without diesel.

The Greens want a 30 km/h speed limit to become the rule on busy county, state and federal roads inside towns. The platform justifies this with greater road safety, cleaner air and less noise.

The Greens want a speed limit of 30 km/h in towns. This should be normal on roads with a lot of traffic. Traffic becomes safer, above all for children and old people. The air gets cleaner. There is less noise.

The Greens want vacations and day trips in Bavaria to be possible without a car. The state would provide more trains and buses to tourist regions. This is meant to make travel less stressful, cut car traffic and protect nature.

The Greens want more trains and buses to vacation areas. Guests should be able to arrive without a car. Nobody should need a car at the vacation spot either. This is meant to avoid traffic jams and protect nature.

The Greens want more play streets and a 30 km/h speed limit in town and city centers so children can get around safely. They also want to expand public transit and make it free for children, teenagers, apprentices and students.

Children should get to school and to friends safely. The Greens want more play streets and a 30 km/h limit in town centers. Buses and trains should run more often. Young people should ride for free.

In addition to the nationwide 49-euro ticket, the Greens want to introduce a 29-euro Klimaticket (climate ticket) valid on all local public transport in Bavaria. It would be cheaper as a social ticket for people on low incomes and free for children, teenagers and people in training up to age 28. The platform says the state must make sure everyone can afford to get around.

The Greens want a new ticket for buses and trains in Bavaria. It should cost 29 euros. People with little money should pay less. Children and teenagers should ride for free. So should everyone in training up to age 28.

The Greens promise a mobility guarantee under which every locality in Bavaria is served at least hourly by bus, on-demand bus or train from 5 a.m. to midnight. To that end, transit associations are to be created statewide and all suitable rail lines reopened.

The Greens want a mobility guarantee. This means a bus or train runs every hour in every town. It applies from 5 in the morning until midnight. Old rail lines should be used again. Buses, trains, bikes and shared cars should fit together well.

The Greens want to make a denser European night train network with hubs in Bavaria, along with the expansion and full electrification of rail lines, a political priority. Cross-border mobility should become environmentally friendly and climate-neutral.

The Greens want more night trains across Europe. Munich and Nuremberg should become important stops. All rail lines should get electric power. More goods should cross the Alps by train instead of by truck.

The Greens want to speed up the rollout of fiber to every home and mobile coverage without dead zones. A 500-euro voucher is meant to encourage households and small businesses to connect. The party sees a gap-free network as a precondition for equal participation.

The Greens want fast internet in every home. Dead zones for cell phones should also disappear. Households and small firms would get a 500-euro voucher for fiber. The rollout would start in rural areas.

The Greens want to make dealings with public authorities digital and simpler, with uniform portals and a single login. Public data is to be made freely available, and the state is to rely more on open-source software and end-to-end encryption.

The Greens want to make public offices digital. The fax machine should go. Everyone should be able to handle official matters on simple websites. The state should open much of its data to all. State software should be well encrypted.

The Greens want to support companies, especially small and mid-sized ones, in going digital and to orient Bavaria's IT sector toward sustainability. New data centers are to run climate-neutral from 2027, and public authorities are to buy IT according to sustainability rules.

The Greens want to help companies go digital. Small firms in particular should get help. From 2027, new data centers should no longer harm the climate. Their waste heat should warm buildings. Public offices should buy eco-friendly computer equipment.

The Greens want every Bavarian municipality to have at least 50 megabits and a fiber-optic connection by 2030. In addition, municipalities are to get help strengthening culture, meeting places and new forms of housing in rural areas.

The Greens want fast internet all over Bavaria. By 2030, every town should have fiber. Fiber is a very fast cable for the internet. Culture in rural areas should also get more help. Examples are theaters, clubs and museums.

The Greens want every Bavarian municipality to hold the "Kommunale IT-Sicherheit" (municipal IT security) seal by 2024. The platform argues that municipalities are increasingly targeted by hackers and that smaller ones in particular are poorly prepared.

Hackers attack towns more and more often. The Greens say small towns are not well prepared. By 2024, all towns should have a seal for IT security. The seal shows that the town's computers are well protected.

The Greens want to end the fixed checks at internal EU borders that have been in place since 2015 and replace them with mobile checks. The Bavarian border police would be dissolved because, in their view, border protection is a federal task. This is meant to ease the burden on people and businesses in border regions.

Bavaria's borders have had fixed checks since 2015. The Greens want to end them. Police should do mobile checks instead. The Bavarian border police should no longer exist. Bavaria should work more closely with Czechia and Austria.

The Greens reject storing data on soccer fans without a specific reason, noting that civil rights also apply inside the stadium. Fan projects are to receive long-term funding. A pilot project is to test reducing police presence at professional games depending on the situation.

The Greens say the state should not store data on soccer fans without a reason. Fan projects should get steady money. At some games there should be fewer police officers. The party wants to test this first.

The Greens want more police staff and modern technology across Bavaria and want to relieve officers of tasks outside law enforcement. They also plan to step up the fight against organized crime, cybercrime and child abuse.

The Greens want more police officers and better technology. Police should have fewer tasks that are not police work. They should do more against crime on the internet. They should also do more against gangs and child abuse.

The Greens want to change Bavaria's Polizeiaufgabengesetz (police powers law), abolish preventive detention and remove the term "impending danger." The party rejects blanket surveillance such as data retention without cause because it sees civil liberties at risk.

The Greens want to change the police law in Bavaria. Nobody should be locked up for weeks as a precaution. Police should not watch everyone without a reason. The party wants to protect people's freedom.

The Greens want individual identification for uniformed police officers, an independent police commissioner and a study on racism within the security authorities. Bavaria's domestic intelligence office is also to be reformed and placed under stronger parliamentary oversight.

The Greens want uniformed police officers to wear a personal ID. An independent office should check the police. A study should look at racism in the security agencies. Parliament should watch the intelligence office more closely.

The Greens see right-wing extremism as currently the greatest threat to internal security in Bavaria and want tougher action against the scene. Right-wing extremists and Reichsbürger (people who reject the German state) are to be disarmed, vigilante groups stopped and exit programs greatly expanded.

The Greens see right-wing extremism as the biggest danger in Bavaria. Police should go after right-wing extremists more. They should not have weapons anymore. There should be more help for people who want to leave the scene.

The Greens want to better equip fire departments, rescue services and disaster protection because, in their view, the climate crisis means more emergencies. Public warnings, emergency supplies and the protection of critical infrastructure are also to be improved.

The Greens want stronger disaster protection. Fire departments and rescue services should get better equipment. There should be more sirens in Bavaria. Every town should know what happens in heavy rain.

The Greens want to gear the prison system more toward reintegration and draft a rehabilitation law for that purpose. The program argues that the best protection against new crimes is when released prisoners do not reoffend.

The Greens want to help prisoners return to normal life. There would be a new law for this. There would be more therapy and more open prisons. That way fewer people should commit crimes again.

The Greens want a package of measures to protect rescue workers, firefighters and police from attacks. The focus is on prevention, since the program names alcohol as the most common cause of such violence.

The Greens want to protect helpers from violence. This means paramedics, firefighters and police officers. Alcohol is often the reason for attacks. So there should be more prevention.

The Greens want to give state and regional planning more staff and realign it in content and structure. The Landesentwicklungsprogramm (state development program) is to be completely revised, and a new state institute is to handle spatial research.

State planning decides how Bavaria develops. For example: where to build and where nature stays. The Greens want to strengthen this planning. It should get more staff. The big plan for Bavaria should be made new. Citizens should have a say.

The Greens want to restructure municipal fiscal equalization and give cities and towns better base funding instead of many separate grant programs. Climate protection and climate adaptation are to become mandatory municipal tasks, backed by the necessary money and staff.

Cities and towns have more and more tasks. The Greens want to give them more steady money. In return there should be fewer separate grant programs. Climate protection should become a duty for towns. They should get enough money and staff for it.

The Greens want to make volunteer positions in local politics more attractive so that more women in particular can get involved. They plan substitute rules, reimbursement of care costs and a legal right to time off from work.

People serve on local councils as volunteers. The Greens want to make this easier. Women especially should be able to take part more. Anyone who is away for a long time should get a substitute. Childcare costs during meetings should be paid back.

The Greens want to digitize the state administration, streamline procedures and expand online services. The civil service is to become more permeable and attractive to career changers. They also plan a modernized right of petition and an independent citizens' ombudsperson.

The Greens want to make Bavaria's government offices more modern. People should be able to do many things online from home. Offices should write in plain language. People should be able to move more easily between companies and government jobs. An independent person should mediate when people have problems with offices.

The Greens want to make Bavaria's petition system more citizen-friendly, transparent and modern. At its core is an independent office at the state parliament that resolves complaints about public agencies through mediation and involves those affected in finding a solution.

A petition is a request or complaint sent to the state parliament. The Greens want to make this process easier and more open. An independent person should help settle disputes with public offices. People should be able to watch petition meetings online.

The Greens want to lower the voting age in Bavaria to 16 for local, district and state elections as well as for referendums and local ballot measures. They also plan a few constitutional changes and want to write young people's participation rights into municipal law.

The Greens want young people to vote at age 16. This would apply to local, district and state elections. They could also vote in referendums. Children and teenagers should have more say in their towns.

The Greens want a transparency law that gives citizens a broad right to information and to inspect government files. The program says this would let people help shape and decide more in Bavaria.

The Greens want a transparency law. Transparency means the state shows openly what it does. People could ask for information and look at files. Private data stays protected.

The Greens want to make petitions for referendums easier and allow referendums even on questions that cost money or concern a single measure. New forms of citizen participation are to be tested across Bavaria.

The Greens want more direct say for citizens. Starting a referendum should get easier. People should also vote on things that cost money. The party wants to try new ways for people to take part.

The Greens want considerably more staff for courts and prosecutors' offices and better equipment. To protect judicial independence, the state government's power to give instructions to prosecutors is to be limited.

The Greens want to hire more judges and prosecutors. Courts should be better equipped. The government should give prosecutors fewer orders. The justice system should work digitally.

The Greens commit to an EU that is able to act and want to strengthen European democracy through transnational electoral lists and more direct participation. EU funding should consistently serve socially fair climate and environmental protection, and the single market should be strengthened without national or regional go-it-alone approaches.

The Greens want a strong European Union. European elections should have lists that cross country borders. EU money should mainly help the climate and the environment. In the shared market, the same rules should apply to everyone.

The Greens want every young person in school, vocational training or college to be able to take part in an exchange. More money for the Stiftung Jugendaustausch Bayern (Bavarian youth exchange foundation) and 1,000 Interrail passes raffled each year are meant to help, so young people can get to know Europe regardless of their parents' income.

Young people should get to know Europe. Everyone should be able to do an exchange in another country. Each year Bavaria gives away 1,000 free train passes for Europe. Schools near the border should offer Czech classes.

The Greens want a securely funded, transparently run Bayerischer Rundfunk (Bavaria's public broadcaster) and a diverse media landscape. Media oversight bodies are to have equal numbers of women and men and become younger and more diverse. Media literacy is to be promoted for everyone in Bavaria.

The Greens want a strong public broadcaster in Bavaria. It should have secure funding and be open about its spending. There should be many different media. Oversight boards should have as many women as men. Everyone should learn to use media well.

The Greens want to fund the full range of arts and culture reliably, reform the Bavarian Culture Fund and draw up a statewide cultural development plan. Minimum fees for artists are to apply to public contracts and grants. The Tanzverbot (ban on dancing on certain religious holidays) is to go, and a center for cultural education is to be founded.

The Greens want steady funding for culture. There should be a plan for all of Bavaria. Artists should get a minimum fee for state-funded work. The ban on dancing on quiet holidays should end. A new center should support cultural education.

The Greens want to equip Bavaria's memorial, learning and remembrance sites according to need and support civil society initiatives. Municipalities are to get money when they rename streets and buildings named after historical perpetrators. In the platform's view, perpetration under National Socialism and colonialism has not been sufficiently examined so far.

The Greens want to equip memorial sites better. These places recall crimes from history. Groups that care for remembrance should get help. Some streets are named after perpetrators from the past. Towns should get money when they change these names.

The Greens want to preserve Bavaria's historic monuments while modernizing them. More solar installations are to be possible on protected buildings, along with new uses inside and better insulation. Municipalities and private owners are to get more money for renovation.

The Greens want to protect old historic buildings. More solar panels should be allowed on them. Owners should be able to change the inside more easily. There should be more money for repairs. The offices should handle requests faster.

The Greens want to overhaul consumer protection in Bavaria: more transparency, stronger legal protection, fair rights to sue and clear product labeling. Food inspection authorities are to get more staff and uniform guidelines. In the platform's view, consumer rights take priority over business interests.

The Greens want to protect shoppers better. Products should clearly say what is in them. Offices should check food better. They get more staff and better equipment for this. Advice centers should get more money. A new state center should protect data better.

The Greens want to make religious and philosophical diversity visible in Bavaria and give all communities equal participation. Students are increasingly to discuss questions of faith and values together instead of being taught only in classes separated by denomination. Participation requires a commitment to the Basic Law (Germany's constitution).

The Greens want all religions to take part equally in Bavaria. Everyone should be able to practice their faith freely and safely. Children should talk more about faith and values together at school. The communities must respect the constitution.

The Greens want to give more support to civic engagement. Plans include a funding program for engagement, more training opportunities and more paid staff to support volunteers. Volunteer emergency responders are to be released from work more easily for training and exercises.

The Greens want to help volunteers. Volunteers help freely and without pay. There should be more courses for them. More paid staff should support them. Emergency helpers should get time off for training.

The Greens want every child to be able to swim safely by the end of elementary school. To that end, a renovation program for swimming pools is to be launched and school swimming lessons strengthened. Club sports are also to be supported, and e-sports clubs recognized as nonprofit.

The Greens want every child to learn to swim. The state should repair swimming pools. Schools should work with swimming clubs. Sports clubs should get more help. E-sports clubs should get benefits too. E-sports means competing in computer games.