Grüne: program for the 2026 Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania state election

The Greens want to create conditions that lead power-hungry industries to set up in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The platform argues that the state has plenty of inexpensive renewable electricity and treats this as a location advantage.

Some factories need a lot of power. The Greens want to bring such factories to the state. They say the state has lots of cheap green power. This should create new jobs.

The Greens want Mecklenburg-Vorpommern to work more closely with the Hamburg metropolitan region and the neighboring northern states. Innovation and new jobs in rural areas in particular are meant to benefit.

Hamburg and the area around it have a strong economy. The Greens want to work more closely with that region. They also want to work with the neighboring states in the north. This should create new jobs, mostly in rural areas.

The Greens want public contracts and subsidies to reach companies in the state more often. Collectively agreed wage standards, good working conditions, and sustainability are to be observed consistently when contracts are awarded. The platform sees this as a way to secure small and mid-sized businesses and local jobs.

The government gives many contracts to companies. The Greens want more companies from the state to get these contracts. The companies should pay fair union-agreed wages. They should also protect the environment.

The Greens want a state strategy for the bioeconomy and the circular economy that involves all ministries. A statewide repair bonus is meant to make repairing electrical devices cheaper. The goal is to keep value creation in the state and create jobs.

The Greens want less waste and more reuse. The state should make a plan for this. People who get an electrical device repaired should get some money back. Companies that use natural raw materials should also get help.

The Greens want new state programs that help companies operate in ways that protect the environment and the climate. These include a program for corporate environmental management and one for social-ecological start-ups. According to the platform, sustainable business should become the standard.

The Greens want to help companies that protect the environment and the climate. The state should set up new funding programs for this. New companies with social and green goals also get help. People who start a company should get more money.

The Greens want to make it easier to start, run, and hand over a business. State laws are to be checked in advance for practicality, and funding programs for small and mid-sized firms are to be simplified. The platform sees bureaucracy as a brake on small and mid-sized business.

Small companies and tradespeople have a lot of paperwork. The Greens want to make this easier. New laws should be tested in real life first. Companies should only have to give their data to offices once.

The Greens want to support shipyards, ports, and maritime start-ups and to link research more closely with practice. The focus is on ship recycling, offshore wind, renewable propulsion, and climate-friendly shipping. This is meant to give shipyards reliable orders and keep jobs over the long term.

The state has many shipyards and ports. The Greens want to modernize them. Old ships should be taken apart and recycled here. New companies working with the sea get funding. Ports should get better rail links.

The Greens want to rewrite the state tourism law and focus it on sustainability and acceptance among local residents. Funding for tourism projects is to be tied to ecological and socioeconomic criteria. Year-round offerings are meant to extend the season and relieve heavily visited regions.

Many people vacation in the state. The Greens want a new law for tourism. Tourism should protect nature. There should be things to do all year. Less plastic and fertilizer should get into the Baltic Sea.

The Greens want to link universities more closely with business, society and the regions so that research findings are put to use more often. This includes a transfer strategy, support for university spin-offs and a state strategy for climate-neutral universities.

New ideas come from universities. The Greens want these ideas to reach companies more often. People who start a company out of a university should get help. The universities themselves should become climate neutral.

The Greens want to expand Welcome Centers into contact points for immigrant skilled workers and returnees and to recognize foreign qualifications faster. Refugees are to have secure residence status while in vocational training. Schools and universities are also to work more closely with companies.

The state lacks many skilled workers. The Greens want to give more help to people from abroad and to people moving back. Refugees in job training should be allowed to stay safely. Schools and companies should work together more closely.

The Greens reject mandatory service for young people and want to strengthen voluntary service instead. There are to be more placements and significantly higher pay so that such service does not depend on family income.

The Greens do not want mandatory service for young people. They want to strengthen voluntary service. There should be more places. Volunteers should get much more money.

The Greens want to fund Housing First models across the state. Homeless people would first be given a home of their own, because the platform sees stable housing as the basis for social participation, health and integration.

Some people have no home. The Greens want to give them a home of their own first. This is called Housing First. After that, other problems are easier to solve.

The Greens want to treat poverty as a structural problem rather than a personal failure. A regular state report on poverty and wealth is to serve as the basis for targeted measures. Neighborhood meeting places in every municipality are also planned.

The Greens want to fight poverty in the state. A regular report should show where poverty and wealth are. Fitting help should follow from it. Every town should get a neighborhood meeting place.

The Greens want more people to find and keep work. They plan a state program for the long-term unemployed, early and binding access to language support, and programs for training and re-entry. The public sector is to stop using fixed-term contracts without a specific reason.

Not everyone has the same chance of finding work. The Greens want a program for people who have been jobless for a long time. Immigrants should be able to learn German early. The state as an employer should not limit jobs in time without a reason.

The Greens want to found a state competence center that sets uniform standards for Eingliederungshilfe (integration assistance for people with disabilities). They also want a disability commissioner for the state and fewer barriers in everyday life.

The Greens want better support for people with disabilities. A new center should make sure the same rules for help apply across the state. There should be a commissioner for people with disabilities. Government offices should offer help in easy language.

The Greens want to pass federal money on to cities and towns without routing it through state funding programs. This is meant to eliminate burdensome application procedures and get the money to where it is needed. Federal funds are also to be drawn down consistently.

The federal government gives money to the state. The Greens want to pass this money straight to cities and towns. Today, towns often have to fill out difficult applications. That should stop. Then the money arrives faster.

The Greens want to use the leeway created by changes to the debt brake (the constitutional limit on borrowing) for investment in education, transportation, and environmental and climate protection. The party rejects borrowing to pay for current consumption spending. At the same time, it should become easier to see how public money is spent.

The state may now borrow more than before. The Greens want to spend this money only on the future. For example on schools, transportation and climate protection. There should be no borrowing for day-to-day spending. The state should report more often on how it spends money.

The Greens oppose selling land owned by the state. Instead, plots are to be granted under Erbbaurecht (long-term ground leases), meaning they are handed over for use for a long period in return for regular payments. This is meant to give the state predictable long-term revenue and ensure sustainable use.

The state owns land. The Greens do not want to sell this land. Others may use it for a long time and pay for it. This is called a ground lease. The state keeps its land and gets regular income.

The Greens want to pursue tax evasion and money laundering more firmly and better equip tax offices, tax investigators, prosecutors and the courts to do so. In the platform's view, tax fraud is unfair to everyone who pays honestly and takes money away from the community.

Some people do not pay their taxes honestly. Then money is missing for schools, roads and daycare. The Greens want to fight this harder. The authorities should get more staff and better technology. The state should work more closely with other authorities.

The Greens want to fund towns, municipalities and counties so that they can carry out their tasks reliably and shape local policy themselves. More money is to be allocated directly instead of being tied to funding programs. When the state assigns tasks to municipalities, it should also pay for them.

The Greens want to give towns and villages more money. The money should come directly. There should be fewer complicated funding programs. When the state gives towns a new task, the state should pay for it.

The Greens want to simplify and speed up permits for housing construction. Existing buildings should be put to better use, for example by adding floors or converting vacant commercial space. The platform argues that slow procedures make the housing shortage worse.

The Greens want building to go faster. People should be able to file building applications online everywhere. Empty buildings should become homes. Building offices should get enough staff.

The Greens want to noticeably increase and overhaul the state program "Wohnungsbau Sozial" (social housing construction). Cheaper loans and higher grants are meant to produce more social housing that stays rent-controlled for a long time. According to the platform, affordable housing often fails for lack of financing.

The Greens want to spend more money on social housing. These are homes with low rents. Builders of such homes should get cheaper loans. Rents should stay low for as long as possible.

The Greens want new state programs to renovate old buildings, revive village centers and open up existing properties to young families. A home-swap action program and support for senior housing and multigenerational living are meant to help people find homes that fit their stage of life.

The Greens want old houses in villages to be used again. Young families should get help buying old houses. There should be advice on swapping homes. Older people should find smaller homes that fit them. Then large homes become free for families.

The Greens want to set up a state land fund that gives municipalities low-cost loans to buy land and buildings. Publicly owned land would in future be granted primarily under ground leases rather than sold. The party aims to curb land speculation and steer social housing development.

The Greens want a state land fund. Towns can get cheap loans from it. They can use the loans to buy land and buildings. Public land should no longer be sold. Instead, it should be leased for a long time.

The Greens want to apply the Mietpreisbremse (rent brake) consistently in tight housing markets and enforce tenancy law more strictly. A monitored ban on using housing for other purposes is to be added. The platform cites sharply rising rents in cities and tourist regions.

The Greens want to use the rent brake wherever homes are scarce. The rent brake limits the rent in new leases. Homes should not simply be turned into vacation rentals. Officials should check this.

The Greens want to simplify the state building code and review technical standards for usefulness and cost-effectiveness. Parking space requirements are to be relaxed. The platform says high building costs push up rents and slow housing construction; quality and safety are to be maintained.

Building is expensive. The Greens want to make the state's building rules simpler. Builders should have to provide fewer parking spaces. Homes made from ready-made parts should get support. This should make building cheaper.

The Greens want each staff member in nurseries, daycare centers and after-school care to look after fewer children. Because fewer children are being born, childcare workers are not to be laid off but used to make groups smaller.

Daycare groups are often too big. The Greens want smaller groups. Fewer children are being born. Still, all childcare workers should keep their jobs. Then they have more time for each child.

The Greens want to give every child a legal claim to a full-day childcare place and to keep daycare free of fees. Care is to follow families' needs, and parents should no longer have to file burdensome applications.

Daycare should stay free for parents. Every child should have a right to a full-day place. Parents then have to fill out fewer forms. Children with disabilities should be able to take part everywhere.

The Greens want to write children's rights into the state constitution and give young people more say in decisions. Preventive child protection would be expanded, including Childhood Houses for children who have experienced violence. Youth culture would be supported so that fewer young people move away.

The Greens want to put children's rights in the state constitution. Young people should have more say. Children who have suffered violence should get help in a safe place. There should be youth clubs and sports sites everywhere.

The Greens want to expand social infrastructure for families. The 16 pilot centers for children and families would be made permanent and gradually rolled out across the state. Counseling services would be adequately funded everywhere.

The Greens want to strengthen families. There are 16 centers for children and families. These should stay, and more should be added. Advice on debt, addiction and other worries should be available everywhere.

The Greens want care work to be better organized, recognized and supported. Siblings should be entitled to full-day childcare during the mother's maternity protection period, and families should get local support centers. According to the platform, there is no equality unless care work is shared fairly.

Many people look after children or care for relatives. The Greens want to make this easier for them. There should be help centers close to home. Siblings should get full-day childcare while the mother is on maternity leave.

The Greens want to improve conditions for apprentices, including better-equipped vocational schools and affordable housing. They plan to introduce an interest-free loan of 1,500 euros at the start of training. The platform justifies this with the future need for skilled workers.

The Greens want to make job training in the state better. Vocational schools should get more staff and equipment. Apprentices should find cheap housing. At the start they get a 1,500 euro loan with no interest.

The Greens want to tie universities' core funding to rising costs and set up a multi-year investment program for buildings and infrastructure. The platform points to a renovation backlog and warns that the state would otherwise lose innovative strength and appeal.

The Greens want to give universities more money. The money should grow when costs go up. Old buildings should be repaired. This should help universities plan ahead.

The Greens want to add more permanent positions at universities and improve working conditions for doctoral candidates. According to the platform, this should let researchers plan reliably and stay in the state.

Many researchers only have short-term contracts. The Greens want more permanent jobs at universities. Doctoral students should also get better conditions. This should keep researchers in the state.

The Greens want to develop a statewide strategy to strengthen students' mental health. Psychosocial counseling is to be expanded at every university location so that students can find support when pressure gets too high.

Many students struggle with stress and mental strain. The Greens want a plan for the whole state. Every university should offer more counseling. Students should not be left alone with their pressure.

The Greens want to strengthen Mecklenburg-Vorpommern as an international place to study and fund international and English-language degree programs through a state program. The platform points to falling numbers of first-year students and the need for skilled workers.

The Greens want to attract more students from other countries. There should be more degree programs in English. The state should advertise its universities around the world. This should also bring more skilled workers to the state.

The Greens want to lower teachers' required teaching hours and make multi-professional teams possible at all schools. The platform argues that teachers in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern carry one of the heaviest workloads in Germany.

Teachers should have to teach fewer hours. Other experts should help out at schools. For example social workers and psychologists. This gives teachers more time for good lessons.

The Greens want schools to decide more for themselves about their focus areas, offerings and grading methods. Curricula and timetables are to be slimmed down. The platform argues that schools often know best what makes them good places to learn.

The Greens want to give schools more freedom. Schools should be able to pick their own focus. Lesson plans should be shorter. There should be fewer separate subjects.

The Greens want children to learn together through sixth grade, preferably at the same school. Students should be able to earn the Abitur (university entrance diploma) after either 12 or 13 years. The platform points to studies saying frequent school changes hurt educational success.

Children should learn together until grade 6. This should happen at one school if possible. Students should be able to finish the Abitur after 12 or 13 years. The Abitur is the diploma needed for university.

The Greens stand by teaching children with and without special educational needs together. Schools are to get more staff and suitable facilities for this.

Children with and without disabilities should learn together. Schools should get more staff for this. Buildings and technology should fit too.

The Greens want to give students a binding say in school decisions and a budget of their own. Counseling and mental health programs are to be expanded as well. The platform argues that only those who experience democracy at school learn to take responsibility.

Students should have more say at their school. Each school should get money that students decide on. There should be counseling for mental health problems. Teachers should learn more about digital media.

The Greens want the state to cover part of the cost of meals in daycare centers and schools if they are certified to the standards of the German Nutrition Society. This is meant to ease the burden on families. School kitchens are also to be subsidized.

The state should help pay for meals in daycare and schools. Families should then pay less. Schools should get their own kitchens. Children should get fresh, warm food.

The Greens want the University of Rostock to offer a law program again that ends with the First State Examination. The reason given is the need for more judges and lawyers in the state so that court proceedings move faster.

The Greens want a law degree in Rostock again. The state needs more judges and lawyers. Then court cases should go faster.

The Greens want to establish age-appropriate sex education starting in daycare and to strengthen sex education programs. The platform sees this as part of education and child protection: those who are well informed can recognize boundaries and better protect themselves from abuse.

Children and teenagers have questions about their bodies and relationships. The Greens want more education on this in daycare and schools. It should fit the child's age. The Greens say knowledge protects children from abuse.

The Greens want to build a regional health center with interdisciplinary teams in every mid-sized town. Mobile practices, telemedicine, health kiosks and community nurses are meant to strengthen underserved areas. The aim is for care not to depend on where a person lives.

The Greens want health centers in every mid-sized town. Doctors, nurses and therapists work together there. Rural areas should get mobile practices and video appointments. Community nurses should help people where they live.

The Greens want to push ahead with hospital reform and open rural hospitals to outpatient treatment. The state is to adequately fund hospital investment. This is meant to secure care across the whole state.

The Greens want to change the hospitals in the state. Rural hospitals should also treat patients who do not stay overnight. Hospitals should get enough money for buildings and equipment. That way there is help everywhere.

The Greens want to improve working conditions in health and nursing professions and strengthen training. More people should enter and stay in these jobs, and skilled workers from abroad should be integrated faster. The platform sees the cause of the staff shortage in the underlying conditions.

There are not enough skilled workers in nursing and medicine. The Greens want to make these jobs better. There should be enough staff and shifts people can plan for. Training should also be possible part-time. Skilled workers from other countries should be able to start work faster.

The Greens want to attract more skilled workers to health care. They plan more places to study medicine, uniform pay for the practical year of medical training, and faster recognition of foreign qualifications.

The Greens want more trained people in medicine and care. There should be more places to study medicine. Medical students should get paid in their practical year. Degrees from other countries should count faster.

The Greens want to expand psychiatric and psychotherapy services so people get help sooner. They also plan statewide crisis services, more prevention and addiction support, and mental health education in schools.

Many people wait a long time for therapy. The Greens want to create more services. This should make waiting times shorter. Crisis services should offer quick help everywhere. Schools should also look after mental health.

The Greens want a dense statewide network of advice centers close to where people live, so that access to the health system becomes easier. The plan includes health navigators and independent patient representatives in every district.

Many people cannot find the right place in the health system. The Greens want more advice centers close to home. Health guides should show people the way. Every district should get an independent contact person for patients.

The Greens want to make long-term care more reliable with more skilled staff, better training and less bureaucracy. The care support centers are to become a network with mobile teams that also reaches rural areas. The rule requiring burial in a cemetery would also be lifted.

The Greens want to improve care for old and sick people. There should be more trained staff and less paperwork. Mobile teams should visit and advise people in rural areas. The Greens also want to end the cemetery rule. Then urns would no longer have to go to a cemetery.

The Greens want to secure maternity care close to home and improve access to abortion. They also want medicine to focus more on women. The platform justifies this by pointing to what it calls structural unequal treatment of women in health care.

The Greens want birth care close to where people live. Midwives should get more support. Women should get an abortion appointment faster. Medicine should pay more attention to women.

The Greens want to amend Mecklenburg-Vorpommern's school law. Children living in initial reception centers for refugees would gain a right to attend school.

Some children live in initial reception centers. Refugees stay there after they arrive. These children should get a right to go to school. The Greens want to change the school law for this.

The Greens want to create safe accommodation with private retreat spaces and more privacy for refugee women. Staff are to be trained, and those affected are to get specialized counseling and legal help. In residence law, the Istanbul Convention, a treaty on protecting women from violence, is to be implemented.

Refugee women are often in danger and have little privacy. The Greens want safe rooms just for women in shelters. Staff should be trained for this. The women should get counseling and legal help.

The Greens want reliable funding for integration work in the state and to reverse cuts made by the state government. The Integration and Participation Act is to be revised and the state administration opened up interculturally.

The Greens want more and secure money for integration. Integration means that immigrants become part of society. Language courses and counseling should get lasting funding. Government offices should be easy to use for everyone.

The Greens want to abolish the Bezahlkarte (a payment card on which refugees receive their benefits). Instead, all refugees are to get their own bank account with an unrestricted debit card so they can manage daily life independently.

Refugees now get their money on a payment card. The Greens want to end this card. Refugees should get their own bank account. They should be able to take out cash without limits.

The Greens reject deportations to areas where people face persecution and call for a deportation freeze for certain groups. Asylum procedures are to become fairer through independent counseling and an independent hardship commission.

The Greens want fewer deportations. Deportation means the state sends a person back to their home country. People from Afghanistan and Iran should be allowed to stay. The same goes for Yazidis. Refugees should get independent advice.

The Greens want to reform how refugees are housed: fewer shared shelters, more decentralized housing, and mandatory protection against violence. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the UN Disability Rights Convention are also to be applied to refugees.

The Greens want better housing for refugees. There should be fewer large shared shelters. More refugees should live in regular apartments. There should be firm rules to protect people from violence.

The Greens want permanent funding and staffing for women's shelters, counseling centers and other support against gender-based violence. Prevention, mandatory training for authorities and statistical recording of femicides are added. In the platform's view, there is no equality without safety.

The Greens want to protect women better from violence. Women's shelters and counseling centers should get enough money for the long term. Police and courts should take training on violence. Schools and workplaces should work on prevention. The state should count killings of women because of their gender separately.

The Greens want to draw up a binding gender equality strategy for the state and make gender budgeting a fixed part of the state budget. At least half of the leadership positions in state-owned enterprises and holdings are to go to women. The platform argues that women earn less and are underrepresented in leadership.

The Greens want a firm plan for gender equality in the state. The state budget should check how money benefits women and men. This is called gender budgeting. In state-owned companies, women should get at least half of the top jobs.

The Greens want to expand independent anti-discrimination counseling centers across the state and have the state fund them long-term. In addition, a central, independent anti-discrimination office is to be created by law. Systematic data collection is meant to make discrimination visible, especially where people face several disadvantages at once.

Some people are treated worse than others. The Greens want more counseling centers to fight this. The state should pay for them over the long term. There should also be one central office against discrimination. Victims of violence and hate should get help faster.

The Greens want to fund counseling and support services for queer people over longer periods and adjust the money for inflation each year. Certain professions are to receive mandatory training. The platform points out that many queer people experience exclusion and a lack of support.

The Greens want to support queer people. Queer means, for example, lesbian, gay or trans people. Counseling centers should get money for longer periods. Teachers and police should have to take training on this topic.

The Greens want to consistently apply the state law on equality for people with disabilities. A state commissioner for inclusion is to be appointed. Together with municipalities, towns and cities are to become barrier-free.

People with disabilities should be able to take part everywhere. The Greens want to seriously apply the law on this. A state commissioner should take care of inclusion. Towns and cities should have fewer obstacles.

The Greens want to pass an anti-discrimination law for Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. It is meant to secure counseling centers permanently and define which forms of discrimination can be challenged in court.

The Greens want a new law against discrimination. Discrimination means someone is treated unfairly, for example because of where they come from. With the law, people could go to court. Counseling centers would get lasting funding.

The Greens want to write climate protection into the constitution of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern as a state objective. This is to come with binding targets, measures, and regular review. According to the platform, this makes decisions predictable.

The Greens want to put climate protection into the state constitution. The constitution is the most important law of the state. There should be fixed goals and measures. The state should check its progress regularly.

The Greens want to make it binding that Mecklenburg-Vorpommern becomes greenhouse gas neutral by 2035. Climate protection is to become a cross-cutting task of state policy, including through a climate check for laws, programs, and budgets and a climate fund for municipalities.

The Greens want a fixed climate goal for the state. By 2035, the state should no longer harm the climate. Every new law should be checked for its effect on the climate. Towns should get money for climate protection.

The Greens want to make the shift to climate-friendly heating socially fair, predictable, and affordable. Municipalities are to get support with heat planning, energy and renovation advice is to be expanded, and waste heat and geothermal energy are to be tapped with the help of a state risk fund.

The Greens want heating to stay affordable and harm the climate less. The state should help towns with planning. There should be more advice on renovation and on funding. A state fund should back up heating projects.

The Greens want to make Mecklenburg-Vorpommern a leader in renewable energy. Permits are to be faster and uniform, additional offshore areas designated in the Baltic Sea, photovoltaics promoted more strongly, and citizen-owned energy strengthened. The platform expects cheap electricity and independence from fossil fuels as a result.

The Greens want more power from wind and sun. Agencies should approve new plants faster. There should be more solar panels on roofs and parking lots. Citizens should be able to join energy projects more easily.

The Greens want people living near wind and solar farms to get cheaper electricity. Households in the immediate vicinity would no longer pay grid fees, which according to the platform cuts the electricity price by up to a quarter. Those who bear the energy transition should also benefit from it, the party argues.

Some people live close to wind turbines or solar farms. The Greens want them to pay less for power. They should no longer pay grid fees. Grid fees are charges for the power lines. This makes their power up to a quarter cheaper.

The Greens want to better coordinate grids, storage, and power generation so that renewable electricity can be distributed, stored, and used. Citizens are to be able to invest in battery storage run by regional utilities. According to the platform, grids are currently overloaded and storage is lacking.

Power from wind and sun has to reach people. The Greens want better grids and more storage for that. Storage keeps power for later. Citizens should be able to put money into battery storage and earn from it.

The Greens want Mecklenburg-Vorpommern to move away from oil and gas and to make the shift socially fair. A hydrogen strategy is to focus green hydrogen on areas that are hard to electrify. New gas power plants would only be allowed under conditions, and a 65 percent renewables quota would apply to new heating systems.

The Greens want to move away from oil and gas. The state should get a plan for green hydrogen. Green hydrogen is a gas made with clean power. New gas power plants must be able to run on hydrogen later. New heating systems should run on 65 percent renewable energy.

The Greens want to anchor the rewetting of peatlands in the state water law and make it economically viable. Towns and municipalities are to get more help adapting to heat, heavy rain and flooding. The platform treats natural climate protection and climate adaptation as belonging together.

The Greens want to make dry peatlands wet again. Wet peatlands store the climate gas CO2. Farmers should still be able to earn money on wet peatlands. Towns and villages should get help. This should protect them better from heat and heavy rain.

The Greens want to conclude a climate pact with municipalities and support them in the energy transition with advice, expertise and funding. A new climate fund is to provide start-up capital for local projects. The program sees counties, towns and municipalities as playing a key role in climate protection.

The Greens want to make a climate pact with towns and villages. Towns get advice and money for the switch to clean energy. A new climate fund is planned for this. A fund is a pot of money for one purpose.

The Greens want to preserve the Baltic Sea for future generations. They plan to cut the pollutants entering the sea, introduce more environmentally sound fishing methods, and develop nature-friendly tourism. The platform argues that the Baltic is severely threatened.

The Greens want to protect the Baltic Sea. Fewer harmful substances should get into the water. Fishing should do less harm to nature. Tourism should fit well with nature.

The Greens want to improve water quality and create more natural buffer zones along waters so that water stays in the landscape. They reject drilling for oil and gas in the Baltic Sea and on land. The platform points to droughts, heavy rain and risks for protected areas and tourism.

The Greens want clean water in lakes and rivers. There should be wider unused strips along the banks. Wet meadows and floodplains should store water. That helps in droughts and in floods. Nobody should be allowed to drill for oil and gas.

The Greens want to secure marine protected areas more effectively, restore habitats such as seagrass meadows and reefs, and cut the inflow of nutrients and litter. A broad alliance is to be formed for the endangered harbor porpoise. The party wants the state to lead on marine protection.

The Greens want to protect the Baltic Sea. Less fertilizer, oil and plastic should get into the sea. Seagrass meadows and reefs should grow again. The harbor porpoise is close to dying out. An alliance should save it.

The Greens want to organize nature conservation more through voluntary, paid agreements with land users and link protected areas into a continuous habitat network. Pesticides and synthetic chemical fertilizers are to be banned in Natura 2000 areas. The stated goal is conservation that finds more local acceptance.

The Greens want to protect nature together with local people. Farmers should take part by choice and get paid for it. Protected areas should be linked together. In special protected areas, pest-killing chemicals should be banned. Artificial fertilizer should be banned there too.

The Greens want to give animal welfare more weight in the state: with an independent commissioner, a right for recognized associations to sue, and a cap on livestock numbers. In the platform's view, clear rules, effective inspections and reliable support have been lacking.

The Greens want to protect animals better. An independent person in the government should look after animal welfare. Animal welfare groups should be allowed to go to court. Not too many animals should live in one barn. Animal shelters should get steady funding.

The Greens want to speed up the conversion of forests into more resilient stands with an action program and preserve old and near-natural forests. Hunting rules and support for timber as a building material are to complement this. The platform cites drought, storms and pests as reasons.

The Greens want to make forests stronger. Forests suffer from drought, storms and pests. A program should speed up changing the forests. Old forests should stay. Wood from the region should be used more often for building.

The Greens want to turn EU nature and environmental rules into binding, concrete measures in the state and better protect the Natura 2000 sites in the Baltic Sea. The party rejects new oil and gas extraction. Old munitions are to be recovered from the Baltic Sea and marine pollution reduced.

The Greens want to protect the Baltic Sea and nature better. The state should really carry out the EU's environmental rules. There should be no new drilling for oil and gas. Old munitions should be taken out of the sea. Less plastic and fertilizer should get into the sea.

The Greens want to make farming more climate- and nature-friendly while giving farms income and planning security. The plan includes less red tape, investment aid for livestock farming and a significant expansion of organic farming. In the party's view, the transition should not come at the farms' expense.

The Greens want farming that is gentle on nature and the climate. Farmers should get money and help for this. Applications should become simpler and digital. There should be more organic farms. Young organic farmers should get start-up help.

The Greens want to preserve fishing in the state and above all back small artisanal operations. Catch limits are to follow science, spawning grounds are to be protected and gentle fishing methods promoted. The platform points to shrinking stocks, falling quotas and economic pressure.

The Greens want to keep small fishing businesses alive. There are fewer and fewer fish. Scientists should say how much fish may be caught. Fishers should get money for gentler fishing gear. They should also be able to earn money in other ways.

The Greens want a statewide transport plan that links buses and trains across the state and makes at least hourly service binding everywhere. The aim is for people to get around affordably without a car.

The Greens want one transport plan for the whole state. Buses and trains should run at least once an hour everywhere. Then people can get around without a car. By 2035, everyone should be able to use buses and trains without barriers.

The Greens want to bring disused rail lines back into service and upgrade existing ones to create a dense and resilient network. The platform points to long waits and says a single construction site can cut off entire regions.

The Greens want to use old rail lines again. They want to upgrade other lines too. This should give the state more connections. Trains should be able to run on electricity or batteries.

The Greens want to coordinate bus and train timetables and make targeted use of regional express buses, on-demand buses and mobility hubs. In the platform's view, rural areas still lack a concept that gives commuters, students and tourists good connections.

The Greens want buses and trains to connect better. The timetables should fit together. Fast buses should link larger towns. On-demand buses should run where no regular bus goes.

The Greens want to set up a single transit association for all of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. It is meant to offer an inexpensive ticket for all trips within the state, so that one ticket covers bus and train even on single journeys.

The Greens want one transit association for the whole state. That is a group of bus and train companies working together. Then one ticket is enough for bus and train. There should also be one shared app.

The Greens want to offer the Deutschlandticket (nationwide transit pass) free to everyone under 27 and at a much lower price to people with low incomes. The platform says mobility must not depend on a person's wallet because it is a precondition for participation, education and job opportunities.

The Greens want a free Deutschlandticket for everyone under 27. This is a pass for local buses and trains across Germany. People with little money should get it much cheaper. The Greens say young people often have no car and little money. They should still be able to get around.

The Greens want to implement the state cycling network quickly and create a continuous, safe network for cycling and walking across the state. The platform cites paths that are in poor shape, end abruptly or are missing, which it says makes getting around risky especially for children and older people.

The Greens want more safe paths for bikes and people on foot. The paths should connect across the whole state. Fast bike routes should link larger towns. Existing paths should also be kept in good shape.

The Greens want to fund a statewide public charging network, make the state's vehicle fleet climate-neutral by 2031 and electrify bus service. The switch to climate-neutral vehicles should not fail because of missing chargers, power prices, housing situation or income; renewable power generated in the state is to be used for this.

The Greens want more charging stations for electric cars across the state. The state's own cars should be climate-neutral by 2031. Buses should run on electricity too. The power should come from within the state.

The Greens pursue the goal that no one is killed or seriously injured in road traffic. To that end, roads and intersections are to be made safer, traffic calmed in towns and speeds lowered at danger spots; the platform points to 94 road deaths in the state in 2025.

The Greens want no more deaths on the roads. They want more crosswalks, lighting and modern traffic lights. Cars should drive more slowly in towns. Speed limits should apply at bus stops outside towns.

The Greens want to broaden the state's existing open access strategy into an open science strategy and upgrade digital systems for research, teaching and university administration. Research findings are to be freely accessible, because in the platform's view lack of access and weak infrastructure slow science down.

The Greens want research results to be free for everyone to read. This is called open science. Universities should get better digital tools. University offices should also become more digital.

The Greens want a binding statewide strategy for digitalizing public administration. The state and municipalities are to work closely together so that government services are available online everywhere. The platform sees unclear responsibilities and incompatible systems as the cause of slow, costly digitalization.

The Greens want a firm plan for digital government offices. The state and towns should work together. People should be able to do important tasks online. This should work equally well everywhere.

The Greens want to move public administration to open-source software and open standards to reduce dependence on single vendors and big tech companies. The state's IT is to be better protected against cyberattacks. The state's data protection authority is to remain independent.

Government offices should use open software. Open software does not belong to one company. The state should depend less on big companies. Office computers should be safer from attacks. The state should keep its own data protection office.

The Greens want sustainability criteria to apply from the start to every state digital project. The platform points to the high electricity use of servers and data centers. Paper use is to fall and devices are to be used longer.

Digital technology uses a lot of power. The Greens want every project to consider the environment. Offices should use less paper. Computers should be used for longer.

The Greens want digital government services to be accessible to everyone, regardless of disability, age or language skills. Accessibility is to become standard in development and procurement. The platform argues that digitalization misses its purpose if it shuts people out.

Everyone should be able to use online government services. This includes people with disabilities and older people. Forms should come in easy-to-read language. They should also come in other languages. Helpers should support people with digital questions.

The Greens want a human to always make the final call in sensitive areas such as welfare and criminal prosecution. A law would tie the use of algorithms in public administration to transparency and clear accountability. Predictive policing would be banned.

Computers should not decide about people on their own. This applies to welfare and to prosecuting crimes, for example. A human should always make the final decision. Police should not use software that tries to predict crimes.

The Greens want to give people more control over their data. They plan free courses on protecting yourself online, and the state would rely on independent, data-minimizing IT with priority for open source.

The Greens want better protection for personal data. There would be free courses. People learn there how to stay safe online. The state should use software that collects little data. Open source should come first. That is software whose code anyone can inspect.

The Greens call for an immediate halt to biometric surveillance in public spaces and reject cooperation with companies such as Palantir. Surveillance measures are to be independently reviewed and must prove their benefit. In the party's view, more surveillance does not automatically bring more security and puts freedom at risk.

The Greens do not want face recognition in streets and squares. They do not want to work with companies like Palantir. Experts should check whether surveillance really helps. Instead of more technology, there should be more prevention and more people on site.

The Greens want to achieve safety mainly through social prevention in municipalities and provide more money for it. Part of it would come from surveillance spending the platform considers ineffective. Police would also be more visible and approachable in everyday life.

The Greens want to stop problems early. There would be more money for youth clubs and counseling. Some money for surveillance would go there instead. Police officers would walk through neighborhoods more often. They would talk with the people who live there.

The Greens want to add staff to the state police, reform training and align the police law more closely with fundamental rights. Remote searches of devices and interception of encrypted communication would be dropped. An independent complaints office is meant to raise trust in the police.

The Greens want to hire more police officers. Training should get better. A new police law should protect basic rights more strongly. Police should no longer secretly search computers and phones. There should be an independent office for complaints.

The Greens want stronger protection for the right to demonstrate and more accountability for police action. Sit-in blockades would count as legitimate protest, filming without cause would end, and the ID requirement for officers would apply everywhere.

The Greens want to protect peaceful protests better. Sit-in blockades should no longer count as a crime. Police should not film protests without a reason. All officers on duty should wear a number. That way people can identify them later.

The Greens want prisons to focus more on reintegration. Inmates would be able to earn qualifications and be paid appropriately for work, and open prisons would be the norm. In the platform's view, failed rehabilitation endangers everyone's safety.

Prisoners should get a fresh start after release. They should be able to learn a trade or study in prison. They should get fair pay for their work. More prisoners should go to open prisons. Those have fewer walls and more freedoms.

The Greens want stricter independent oversight and more transparency for the state's Verfassungsschutz (domestic intelligence agency). Serious intrusions would require prior review by courts. An independent research center on democracy would study anti-democratic developments.

The Verfassungsschutz is the state's domestic intelligence service. The Greens want to control it more strictly. A judge should approve serious measures in advance. There should be clear rules for informants. Informants are insiders who pass on information from extremist groups. A new research center should study threats to democracy.

The Greens want to use every means available under the rule of law to counter the spread and radicalization of the far-right scene. At the same time, support services for people affected by violence and threats are to be expanded and civic education strengthened.

The Greens want to act against far-right extremism. Police and other agencies should find far-right groups faster and break them up. Victims of violence should get more help. People should learn more about democracy.

The Greens want to make Mecklenburg-Vorpommern more resilient to crises, sabotage and hybrid threats. Cooperation with Baltic Sea neighbors is to grow, and a state resilience concept as well as municipal resilience plans anchored in law are to be created. The energy supply is also to become more independent.

The Greens want to prepare the state better for crises. The state should work more closely with countries around the Baltic Sea. Important facilities like power lines should get better protection. Every town should have a plan for crises. Schools should teach about disaster protection.

The Greens want to make citizens' assemblies possible at the state and municipal level and create a legal basis for them. The aim is for more people to take part in decisions so that these have broader support.

The Greens want citizens' assemblies. In such an assembly, ordinary people discuss political questions. There should be assemblies for the state and for towns. This way more people can have a say.

The Greens want to anchor young people's say in law and support children's and youth councils across the state. Volunteering is also to be made easier through better leave arrangements. The party argues that volunteers often lack time, support and real opportunities to take part.

The Greens want young people to have more of a say. Children's and youth councils should be made stronger. Such a council is a group that advises politicians. Volunteering should also get easier. People should get time off for it more easily.

The Greens want to make direct democracy at the state and municipal level simpler and more binding. In the party's view, initiatives currently often fail because of complicated procedures and high formal hurdles.

The Greens want to make citizen petitions for a vote easier. In these, people collect signatures to get a vote. Fewer topics should be off limits. Successful petitions should have more effect.

The Greens want 16-year-olds to be able to stand for election to municipal councils and county councils. This is meant to open a path into local politics for young people and bring in new perspectives. In addition, candidate lists are to be filled more often with equal numbers of women and men.

The Greens want to lower the age for candidates. At 16, people should be able to run for their local council. Young people should take on responsibility early. Candidate lists should also have as many women as men.

The Greens want to give people without EU citizenship the right to vote in local elections once they have lived in Germany for more than five years. The party sees a democratic deficit when people who live in the state permanently cannot take part in decisions.

Some people do not have a passport from an EU country. Today they cannot vote in local elections. The Greens want to change that. Anyone living in Germany for more than 5 years should be able to vote locally.

The Greens want to introduce a transparency law that requires public authorities to publish their information proactively. State parliament committees are to meet in public as a rule, and it is to be disclosed who contributed to a law. The party wants this to strengthen trust in political decisions.

The Greens want the state to work more openly. Public offices should publish their information on their own. This should cost nothing. Committees in the state parliament should meet in public. For each law, people should see who helped write it.

The Greens want to make government action easier to follow. Non-personal public data would be freely available at no cost, and contacts between politicians and interest groups would be disclosed. In the platform's view, a lack of transparency breeds distrust.

The state should open its data to everyone. This should be free. Private data about people is excluded. Meetings between politicians and lobbyists should be public. Lobbyists speak for companies or associations. People who report violations of the law should be protected.

The Greens want to hire more staff for courts and prosecutors' offices and make the judiciary more independent of the government. The judiciary would govern itself, and instructions to prosecutors in individual cases would be limited.

The Greens want to hire more judges and prosecutors. Court cases should move faster that way. The courts should manage themselves. The government should have less influence on the justice system. People should be able to study law in Rostock again.

The Greens want the perspectives and rights of children and young people to be systematically considered in political decisions. To that end, a child impact assessment is to be introduced in the state government's departments.

Political decisions affect children and teenagers. The Greens want these effects checked in advance. The ministries should do this when they decide things. That way children's rights should count for more.

The Greens want to make Europe more visible in everyday life in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The European idea is to be strengthened in schools, universities, vocational training and adult education. Partnerships and exchange programs are to grow.

The Greens want people in the state to notice Europe more. Schools and universities should teach more about Europe. There should be more partnerships with places in other countries. Trainees should also find it easier to go abroad.

The Greens want to develop a strategy for using EU funding so that rural regions in particular benefit more. Applicants are to get more advice and higher co-financing from the state. Regional programs such as LEADER are to be kept in the next EU budget.

The EU gives money for projects in the regions. The Greens want to use this money better. People who apply should get more help. The state should add more of its own money to EU projects. Small funding programs for villages should stay.

The Greens want to expand cooperation with Poland and treat the border area more as one shared region. This includes the Euroregion Pomerania, the Szczecin metropolitan region, better transport links and more language and school exchange. The program sees opportunities for the economy and social cohesion, especially in Vorpommern.

The Greens want to work more closely with Poland. The area along the border should grow together. There should be better train links to Poland. More students should be able to learn Polish. Schools should have partners in Poland.

The Greens want a state funding program for village festivals and other local gatherings. Village events would be eligible for up to 5,000 euros a year. In the party's view, such festivals hold rural communities together.

The Greens want to support village festivals with money. The state should set up its own program for this. A village could get up to 5,000 euros a year. The festivals should bring people in the village together.

The Greens want to strengthen the reckoning with the SED dictatorship (East Germany's ruling party) and fund it for the long term instead of cutting money. Teaching about the SED dictatorship, National Socialism and the Holocaust is to be mandatory in schools. The party argues that democracy becomes vulnerable when memory fades.

The Greens want people to remember the injustice in East Germany. Memorial sites and archives should get lasting funding. In school, everyone should learn about the East German dictatorship and the Nazi era. This should help people protect democracy.

The Greens want to make culture a mandatory public task by law, securing basic cultural provision in every region. Cultural venues are to be preserved, especially in rural areas, and state funding for artists and cultural workers improved.

The Greens want a culture law. The state would then have to fund culture. Movie theaters, libraries, and music schools should stay open in rural areas too. Artists should get more funding.

The Greens want state subsidies to help music and art schools cover the higher cost of employing teachers on regular contracts. The background is the Herrenberg ruling, under which many freelance teachers may count as falsely self-employed. According to the platform, people working in culture should be able to do so without fearing for their livelihood.

Many teachers at music and art schools work as freelancers. A court ruled that this is often not allowed. So the schools have to hire them as regular staff. That costs more money. The Greens want the state to give the schools this money.

The Greens want to develop libraries into open meeting places, especially for children and young people, and keep them open longer. For rural areas with few offerings, a mobile culture unit (Kulturmobil) is to run as a pilot project. The platform argues that cultural institutions are under pressure from rising costs and uncertain funding.

The Greens want to strengthen libraries. They should stay open longer. There should be more programs for children and young people. In rural areas, a culture bus should go from place to place. It brings culture to the villages.

The Greens want to extend the state's Theaterpakt (theater funding pact) and change it so that funding rises with inflation and collectively agreed wages. This is meant to give the theaters and their staff planning security. Two more companies are to be added to the pact.

The state gives money to theaters. The rules are in the theater pact. The Greens want to extend this pact. The money should go up when prices and wages go up. Two more theater companies should get money from the pact.

The Greens want to give targeted support to the state's creative industries and make them more visible. The plans include a funding program for video games, permanent support for festivals and clubs, and a restructuring of film funding. In the platform's view, existing funding structures have gaps.

The Greens want to support creative jobs in the state. There should be money for making video games. Festivals and clubs should get more lasting money from the state. Film funding should be reorganized. A website should show all cultural offerings.

The Greens want to draw up a heritage strategy for the state that is backed by staff and money and accompanied by academic research. Historic buildings and sites are to be preserved, opened to the public and kept in long-term use. The platform points to costly renovations and support that is hard to access for municipalities and private owners.

The state has many old buildings, such as manor houses and churches. Many of them are at risk. The Greens want a plan to protect these monuments. Towns and builders should get help and money more easily. An old reactor in Lubmin should be kept.

The Greens want to implement animal husbandry labeling, step up inspections of livestock farming, food and products, and secure funding for consumer advice centers. The platform cites unclear labels, too few inspections and a lack of transparency as the reasons.

The Greens want to protect consumers better. Food labels should show how the animals were kept. Authorities should check farms and food more closely. Consumer advice centers should get enough money.