Grüne: program for the 2026 Saxony-Anhalt state election

The Greens want to link business development funding to climate protection and launch a “GreenInvest” program for sustainable companies. They also want lower energy prices for businesses and stronger regional and cooperative forms of business.

The Greens want to support companies that protect the climate. There should be a new funding program for this. Electricity should get cheaper for companies. Cooperatives should also get help. These are companies owned jointly by their members.

The Greens want to raise the standing of the skilled trades and treat vocational and academic education equally. They call for a free Meister (master craftsperson) title, a start-up bonus for new masters and more support for business successions.

The Greens want to strengthen the skilled trades. The master craftsperson title should cost nothing. Masters who start a company should get money. Women in the trades should get more help.

The Greens want nature-based tourism that puts quality before quantity and secures regional value creation and good working conditions. To that end, the tourism master plan is to be developed further and cycling, hiking and water tourism strengthened.

The Greens want more vacations in nature and at cultural sites. Quality matters more to them than many guests. The state should take care of important bike routes itself. Vacations on the water should also get easier.

The Greens want to fund meeting places such as libraries, youth clubs and village centers through a state program. A state action plan is to bundle and finance measures against loneliness.

The Greens want to keep meeting places and create new ones. These include libraries, youth clubs and village centers. The state should pay for this. A state plan should help against loneliness.

The Greens want to expand the Budget für Ausbildung and Budget für Arbeit (training and work budgets) so that more people with disabilities can hold regular jobs. Fixed targets are to apply through 2031.

The Greens want more people with disabilities in regular jobs. There should be more money for training and work. There should be clear goals until 2031. The Greens want to talk with employers about prejudice.

The Greens reject cuts to Eingliederungshilfe (integration assistance for people with disabilities) and want benefits tailored to the individual. Applications should be processed within three months at most, with digital support.

Integration assistance is support for people with disabilities. The Greens do not want cuts here. The support should fit each person. Offices should handle applications within three months.

The Greens want to strengthen collective bargaining coverage through the state's law on wage compliance in public procurement and award public contracts only to companies paying fair wages. In the private sector, too, collective agreements and works councils are to become more common in order to fight low wages and in-work poverty.

The Greens want fair pay. The state should give contracts only to companies with fair pay. More companies should pay under union wage agreements. Such an agreement sets pay and hours for many workers. Workers should have more say in their companies.

The Greens want a training guarantee so that every young person can start a qualified vocational training program. The long-term unemployed are to be brought into work more through subsidized employment, a tool the party says has been used too rarely so far.

The Greens want a guarantee for job training. Every young person should get a training place. People without work should be able to return step by step. There should be supported jobs for this.

The Greens want targeted investment in education, climate protection and social justice while achieving balanced budgets. The debt brake is to be reformed so the state can act on long-term tasks, and the budget and subsidies are to become more transparent.

The Greens want to spend money on education, climate and social needs. The state should still not spend more than it takes in. The rule on debt should change. Everyone should be able to see online what the state spends money on.

The Greens want to lift the obligation to file a tax return for people whose only income is wages or pensions. Instead, they would automatically receive a draft tax assessment.

Some people only get wages or only a pension. They should no longer have to file a tax return. The tax office sends them a ready-made proposal. Then they decide for themselves if it fits.

The Greens call for a reform of municipal financing with reliable basic funding and an area factor. Heavily indebted municipalities are to get relief through a legacy debt fund, and municipalities are to receive more revenue of their own.

The Greens want towns and villages to have more money. Municipalities with a lot of land should get extra money for it. There should be a fund for places with very high debts. Whoever gives municipalities tasks must also pay for them.

The Greens want to secure affordable housing with rent caps, more dorms for apprentices and students, and social housing construction. Communal forms of housing are to be supported because the party regards housing as a basic right.

The Greens want housing to stay affordable. Rents should have an upper limit. There should be more dorms for apprentices and students. The state should get more social housing built.

The Greens regard housing as a human right and want homeless people to be offered a permanent home first ("Housing First"). They also support a statewide pause on evictions for rent arrears in publicly owned housing.

The Greens say everyone should have a home. People without a home should get a fixed place to live first. This is called "Housing First." People with rent debts should not be evicted from public housing.

The Greens want existing buildings to take priority over new construction and want to turn the building code into a "conversion code." Renovation subsidies are to be simplified and made accessible to low-income households.

The Greens want to renovate old buildings rather than build new ones. Building rules should make this easier. People with little money should also get support for renovation. The state should give guarantees for them.

The Greens want to upgrade city and town centers, reduce vacancies and promote neighborhoods with little car traffic. Urban planning is to take account of short distances, safety and the needs of different groups.

The Greens want lively town centers. Empty shops should get new uses. There should be fewer cars in neighborhoods. Important places should be reachable in 15 minutes. People should have a say early in planning.

The Greens want to secure and broaden municipalities' right of first refusal on property in order to prevent land speculation and support affordable housing. Against long-term vacancy, municipalities would get graduated tools, up to an easier takeover of properties.

Municipalities should more often be allowed to buy land first. The Greens want to stop speculation with land this way. If a building stays empty for a long time, municipalities should be able to step in. As a last step, they can take over the building more easily.

The Greens want to create more meeting places for young people, especially in smaller towns. Youth associations, family centers and family organizations would get more reliable funding.

Many young people have no place to meet. The Greens want to create such places, also in small towns. Youth groups should get reliable money. Centers for families should get more support too.

The Greens want to strengthen democracy education starting in daycare. Civics is to be compulsory from fifth grade until graduation, and school conferences are to be composed on a one-third parity basis.

The Greens want children to learn about democracy early. Civics should be required from grade 5 until the end of school. Students should have more say at school. All students should be able to join exchange programs.

The Greens want digital and media skills to become a permanent part of education for children and adults alike. People should understand how algorithms and AI shape information.

The Greens want everyone to learn how to use digital media. This applies to schools and to courses for adults. People should understand how news on the internet is made. This should also help them find jobs.

The Greens want to keep every Kita (daycare center) in the state open, especially in rural areas. A program called "HeimatKita" would guarantee childcare in the same village or no more than 15 minutes away. The fee reduction for families with several children would be made permanent.

The Greens want to keep all daycare centers in the state. This matters most in villages. Every family should have daycare nearby or within 15 minutes. Families with several children should keep paying less.

The Greens want to improve staffing in daycare centers for the long term by raising the minimum staff-to-child ratio. In addition, all daycare centers would have to assess children's language skills so that support starts early.

The Greens want more staff in daycare centers. Childcare workers should earn more. All daycare centers should check how well children speak. That way children get help with language early.

The Greens want daycare centers to be places where children experience participation, and to expand them into family centers. Training is meant to promote gender-neutral upbringing and reduce role stereotypes.

Children should learn to have a say already in daycare. Daycare centers should also be meeting places for families. Staff should get training. There they learn not to push girls and boys into fixed roles.

The Greens want to preserve small elementary schools in rural areas and create a special "village elementary school" status for them. Falling student numbers would be used for smaller classes, and the party rejects laying off teaching staff.

The Greens want to keep small elementary schools in villages. Children should have short trips to school. When there are fewer children, classes should get smaller. Teachers should not lose their jobs.

The Greens want to turn all general-education schools into schools with all-day programs. Learning materials, a healthy lunch and menstrual products would be free of charge at school.

All schools should have afternoon programs. Clubs and music schools should take part. School books and lunch should be free. Pads and tampons should also be free at school.

The Greens want children with and without disabilities to learn together as a rule and to sharply reduce the number of special-needs schools. As a first step, special schools focused on learning difficulties would be abolished entirely. In the platform's view, separation leads to stigma and poorer prospects.

Children with and without disabilities should learn together. There should be far fewer special schools. First, the special schools for learning difficulties should go. Their teachers should then help at regular schools.

The Greens want to extend joint elementary school to six years and, in the long run, allow joint learning from grade 1 through 10. The Sekundarschule (a non-academic secondary school type) would be abolished, leaving mainly comprehensive Gemeinschaftsschulen alongside Gymnasien. The Abitur would again be taken after 13 years.

Children should attend elementary school together until grade 6. Later they should be able to learn together until grade 10. One type of secondary school should be ended. There should be more comprehensive schools instead. The final school exam should again come after 13 years.

The Greens want far fewer grades and to replace them with dialogue-based feedback. In elective and talent-based subjects, grades would be dropped entirely. Repeating a school year would mostly become a voluntary decision by students and parents.

There should be far fewer grades at school. Teachers should talk with children about their learning instead. Some subjects should have no grades at all. Repeating a year should mostly be voluntary.

The Greens want to ease teachers' workload with a mandatory working-time account and teams drawn from several professions. Career changers would get more support, and there would be pay bonuses for teaching in structurally weak regions or shortage subjects.

Teachers should get more help. Other professionals should take tasks off their hands. People from other jobs should become teachers more easily. Those who teach in difficult places should get more money.

The Greens want to replace teacher training split by school type with a single degree for all secondary schools. They also plan a new primary-level teaching degree, a one-subject teaching degree and more study places in Halle and Magdeburg.

Teacher training should change. Future teachers should be able to work at all secondary schools. In art, music and sports, one subject should be enough. The universities in Halle and Magdeburg should train more teachers.

The Greens want to put significantly more money into school buildings and equipment through a school construction program. A school social index would steer extra funds to schools facing particular difficulties.

The Greens want to spend much more money on school buildings. Old schools should be renovated. School toilets should be fixed first. Schools with big problems should get more money.

The Greens want at least one permanently employed school social worker at every school and a pool of school psychologists in counties and independent cities. Funding would be carried permanently by the state and municipalities together.

Every school should have at least one permanent social worker. Every county should have school psychologists. The state and local governments should pay for this together. Poor municipalities should get help with it.

The Greens want to set up a state action program against bullying. The platform argues that perpetrator and victim roles are often carried over from school into working life, so early intervention is needed.

The Greens want a program against bullying. Bullying means someone is treated badly again and again. Schools should act against it early. Once a year there should be a day against bullying.

The Greens want to supply all schools with fast internet, Wi-Fi, digital boards and enough devices. IT and digital assistants at every school would provide technical help. According to the platform, digitalization should not be an end in itself but follow teaching concepts.

All schools should get fast internet and Wi-Fi. There should be enough devices for children and teachers. Experts at every school should help with the technology. Teachers should learn better how to work with digital media.

The Greens want to better protect children in all schools from discrimination, bullying, racism and anti-queer hostility. They plan to strengthen counseling and prevention, set up an independent statewide ombuds office, and require regular teacher training.

The Greens want to protect children at school. This is about bullying, racism and hate against queer people. There should be an independent office for complaints. People can report incidents there without giving their name. Teachers should take regular courses on this.

The Greens want students to have more say at every level of school life. Democracy education would become a guiding principle across all subjects, new bodies would be created, and the school conference would be split equally among three groups.

Students should have more say at school. The Greens want new groups for this, such as class councils. In the school conference, students, parents and teachers should have equal weight. This way young people experience democracy early.

The Greens want no vocational training program to charge school fees, especially school-based training and health professions. They also call for training pay tied to collective agreements and a one-time start-up grant for trainees whose parents cannot support them financially.

Some training programs cost school fees today. The Greens want to end that. This is most important for health jobs. Trainees should get pay based on union agreements. Trainees who get no money from their parents should get a one-time payment at the start.

The Greens want to strengthen adult education centers and independent providers and make continuing education accessible in rural areas too. A new educational leave law would broaden Bildungsurlaub (paid educational leave), and programs for basic skills, second-chance schooling and German courses would grow.

Adults should be able to learn close to home. The Greens want to strengthen adult education centers. There should be more courses for reading and writing. Educational leave should get easier. That is time off work for learning. Immigrants should get more German courses.

The Greens want to keep raising state funding for universities so that at least inflation and higher energy and construction costs are covered. They also pledge to defend academic freedom and university autonomy and to support research in future-oriented fields.

Universities should get more money from the state. This should help them pay higher prices for energy and building. The Greens want to protect the freedom of science. They want to support research, for example on green hydrogen.

The Greens want to give students more of a say, including through a student vice-rector and equal representation of four groups on governing bodies. Universities would also be required to ensure physical and digital accessibility and to offer more part-time and distance study.

Students should have more say at universities. The Greens want a new student post in university leadership. Universities should be open to everyone. This applies to buildings and to digital services. There should be more part-time and distance study.

The Greens want more permanent positions at universities, especially for mid-level academic staff, and a collective agreement for student employees. The share of women is to rise markedly, with a target of at least 40 percent women professors.

Many people at universities only have short contracts. The Greens want more permanent jobs. Students who work at a university should get a union contract. At least 40 percent of professors should be women. There should be binding targets for this.

The Greens want to keep the state's hospitals as places for health and emergency care. To do so, they back state-funded Sicherstellungszuschläge (supplements to keep essential hospitals running) and returning hospitals to municipal ownership. Obstetrics and pediatrics are to get special protection.

The Greens want to keep the hospitals in the state. The state should pay money for this. Towns and counties should be able to take hospitals back. Birth care and children's medicine should also stay secure.

The Greens want to fund municipal health centers and municipal Medizinische Versorgungszentren (MVZ, medical care centers) to secure care close to home. Care in rural and economically weak areas is thereby meant to exist independently of private investors.

The Greens want to fund health centers owned by towns and communities. Several doctors work together there. This way there should be doctors in the countryside too. Care should not depend on private investors.

The Greens want to guarantee training without school fees and with pay in all health and nursing professions. In addition, these professions are to become more academic, specialists are to be attracted to rural regions, and opt-out contracts at hospitals are to be eliminated.

The Greens want to win more skilled workers for health and nursing. Training should cost no school fees. Trainees should get paid. There should also be more specialist doctors in the countryside.

The Greens want to guarantee access to abortion throughout the state. State-owned hospitals are to perform abortions and teach them in training. At the federal level, the party is pushing to remove Section 218 from the criminal code.

The Greens want women everywhere in the state to be able to end a pregnancy. State hospitals should offer and teach this. Abortion should no longer be in the criminal code. The Greens want to push for this at the federal level.

The Greens want to markedly improve care for neurodivergent people, such as those with autism or ADHD, by building a statewide digital coordination network with a central registration portal. People are also to get faster access to psychotherapy, prevention and crisis help.

The Greens want to help people with autism or ADHD better. An online portal should make it easier to find diagnosis and therapy. People with mental health problems should also get help faster. For this there should be more therapy places.

The Greens want to modernize health care structures: with a state center for telemedicine and telecare, municipal needs planning for nursing care places, and a relaunch of the anonymous health voucher for people without insurance.

The Greens want to found a center for telemedicine. Telemedicine means treatment by phone or internet. Municipalities should plan how many care places are needed. People without health insurance should still be able to see a doctor.

The Greens want reliable funding for municipal addiction counseling centers and permanent state funding for the digital counseling service DigiSucht_LSA. Counseling is to focus more on online, media and gaming addiction.

The Greens want to pay reliably for addiction counseling centers. The online service DigiSucht_LSA should get lasting money from the state. Counseling should help more with addiction to the internet and video games.

The Greens call for a guaranteed right to a single room in residential care facilities. They justify this with residents' self-determination and personal rights.

The Greens want this: Everyone in a nursing home has a right to their own room. Shared rooms are only allowed if people want them. Everyone should be able to furnish their own room.

The Greens want to sharply reduce residents' out-of-pocket costs in nursing homes by having the state cover investment and training costs. They also back a solidarity-based care guarantee in the form of full long-term care insurance so that needing care does not lead to poverty.

A place in a nursing home costs a lot of money. The Greens want residents to pay less themselves. The state should cover part of the costs. An insurance plan should pay for all care costs.

The Greens want to create a self-governing body for nursing staff by law. It would shape professional and continuing-education rules itself and give nursing more weight in politics and self-administration.

The Greens want to create a body that speaks for nurses. Nurses should decide the rules for their job themselves. Politicians should listen to them more.

The Greens want Saxony-Anhalt to actively support protection programs for at-risk women and queer people from Iran and Afghanistan. State admission programs are to be continued permanently. Protection should also cover people affected by transnational repression.

Women and queer people are in danger in Iran and Afghanistan. The Greens want Saxony-Anhalt to support programs that protect them. The state should keep its own admission programs for good. People who are persecuted here by a foreign state should also get protection.

The Greens want compulsory schooling to apply immediately to all children with a migration background and want them placed in regular classes quickly. To that end, there would be more teachers of German as a second language.

Immigrant children should go to school right away. They should join normal classes quickly. There should be more teachers for German. Parents should get information in their own language.

The Greens want newcomers to get information, counseling and opportunities to participate from day one, and plan municipal or regional arrival centers across the state. The platform treats immigration as a necessity and an enrichment; it is to be actively managed in order to attract skilled workers.

The Greens want to welcome new immigrants well. They should get information and advice from the start. There should be arrival centers everywhere. These offer all key help in one place. The Greens say the state needs immigration for skilled workers.

The Greens want procedures at immigration offices, job centers, social welfare offices and reception facilities to be faster, digital and better coordinated. Immigration offices are to be better equipped and developed into migration centers that support integration.

The Greens want faster procedures for newcomers. Offices should work digitally and coordinate better. Immigration offices should get more resources. They should help people integrate.

The Greens want newcomers to be able to attend language courses from their first day, regardless of recognition or pending administrative procedures. The state is to guarantee reliable language instruction everywhere; attendance is to be mandatory and enforced if necessary.

The Greens want language courses from the first day. Nobody should have to wait for an office decision first. The state should offer courses everywhere. Everyone must attend the courses.

The Greens want to give newcomers access to jobs, internships, training and recognition counseling as early as possible. Recognition of foreign vocational qualifications is to become faster and more digital. The platform sees work as the strongest driver of integration.

The Greens want newcomers to be allowed to work early. They should quickly get jobs, internships and advice. Degrees from abroad should be recognized faster. The Greens say work helps integration the most.

The Greens call for abolishing the Bezahlkarte (payment card for asylum seekers), which the platform regards as discriminatory. Social benefits are to be paid out as cash to everyone alike.

The Greens want to abolish the payment card. Today refugees often get their benefits on this card. The Greens think this is unfair. Everyone should get their benefits as money.

The Greens want long-term funding for associations, initiatives, migrant organizations, sponsorship programs and volunteers working on integration, and want them built into local plans. Newcomers are to get early access to sports, culture, volunteering and civic education.

The Greens want to fund clubs and groups that help newcomers. The money should be secure for a long time. Newcomers should be able to join sports and culture early. Guides should support them.

The Greens want to set up a one-stop agency for international skilled workers, staff in shortage occupations and founders. It is meant to bundle official procedures and keep international talent in the state long term.

The Greens want one central office for skilled workers from abroad. They get all help in one place there. They should find work and learn German more easily. This should make them stay in the state for a long time.

The Greens want to implement the Gewalthilfegesetz (federal law on help for victims of violence) and fund women's shelters reliably. Residents should no longer pay a personal contribution, so that protection does not depend on income. Shelter places, counseling and work with perpetrators are to be expanded in all regions.

The Greens want more money for women's shelters. Women should no longer have to pay anything themselves there. There should be enough places everywhere in the state. Counseling and work with offenders should also grow.

The Greens want to turn the Frauenfördergesetz (law on the advancement of women) into an equality law and advocate a parity law that complies with the constitution. It is meant to secure women's representation in parliaments. State laws would in future have to be checked for their effects on the genders.

The Greens want a new equality law. A parity law should bring more women into parliaments. Parity means that women and men are represented equally. New laws should be checked for how they affect women and men.

The Greens want to review the state action plan on the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and add further measures. Public spaces, state facilities, doctors' offices and hospitals should become more accessible.

The Greens want fewer barriers for people with disabilities. This applies to buildings, public places and doctors' offices. State offices should also give information in easy language. People with disabilities should have a say in plans from the start.

The Greens want a state anti-discrimination law that prevents discrimination by public bodies and allows those affected to obtain compensation. Binding statewide inclusion standards would apply to agencies and public spaces.

The Greens want a new law against unfair treatment by state offices. People affected should be able to fight back and get compensation. The same inclusion rules should apply to offices across the state. Inclusion means everyone can take part.

The Greens want long-term funding for projects against racism, antisemitism, hostility toward Muslims and hostility toward LGBTIQ* people, which they see as a state duty to protect democracy. Counseling centers for victims of violence and migrant associations are to receive more support.

The Greens want to strengthen projects against racism and hate. These projects should get money for the long term. Counseling centers help people after violence. They should get more support too. Groups run by immigrants should also get more help.

The Greens call for anchoring climate protection as a state goal in the state constitution. This is meant to give responsibility toward future generations a stronger legal footing.

The Greens want to change the constitution of Saxony-Anhalt. It should say: climate protection is a goal of the state. This is meant to protect the people of tomorrow.

The Greens want to push at the federal level for a Klimageld (climate dividend). Revenue from carbon pricing would be paid directly to the public, which the program says benefits mainly people with low emissions.

The Greens want a climate payment. The state collects money through the carbon price. People should get this money back. This helps most those who cause little CO₂.

The Greens call for a precautionary strategy for adapting to the effects of the climate crisis. It is meant to protect against floods, heat, and drought, with a focus on especially vulnerable groups.

The climate is getting warmer. There are more droughts and more floods. The Greens want to prepare the state for this. They want more green space in cities and strong disaster protection.

The Greens reject wind turbines in forests in principle in order to protect the ecosystem. They would only be a secondary option, for example on forest land that is already damaged.

The Greens generally do not want wind turbines in forests. The forest should stay protected. Exceptions should be rare. For example, where the forest is already damaged.

The Greens want Saxony-Anhalt to get 100 percent of its electricity from renewable sources by 2030. To do so, decentralized expansion is to be pushed forward and the land-area target for wind power kept.

The Greens want all electricity in the state to come from renewable sources by 2030. These include wind and sun. Enough land should stay set aside for wind turbines. Old turbines should be easier to replace with new ones.

The Greens want to lower electricity prices for households and businesses. To that end, the electricity tax is to fall to the minimum allowed under EU law, Germany is to be split into several electricity price zones, and grid fees are to become regional and dynamic.

The Greens want electricity to be cheaper. The tax on electricity should be as low as the EU allows. The price of electricity could differ from region to region. Grid fees should also depend on region and time.

The Greens want people to benefit directly from cheap renewable electricity where it is produced, in order to raise acceptance of wind and solar plants. Citizen energy cooperatives, local citizen electricity tariffs, self-generated power and balcony solar units are to be supported.

The Greens want everyone to gain from the energy transition. Citizens should be able to run their own plants together. People living near wind turbines should get cheap electricity. People with little money should get help to buy a balcony solar unit.

The Greens want to introduce a solar mandate for new buildings, for homes through the state building code. Land that is already sealed is to be used first for the energy transition, while ground-mounted solar plants are to be steered in a way that is compatible with nature.

The Greens want a solar requirement. New buildings should get solar panels on the roof. This also applies to company and government buildings. That way power is made where the ground is already built on.

The Greens want to enable more research and investment in geothermal energy and also see great potential in river heat pumps. Farmers are to be able to earn income from solar installations, and existing biogas plants are to be kept and used more flexibly.

The Greens want to use more heat from the ground and from rivers. Farmers should be able to earn money with solar panels. The state's biogas plants should stay. They should use less corn and more leftovers.

The Greens want to renovate, improve and, where needed, expand the power grids so that the growth of renewables and storage and the electrification of industry, heating and transport succeed. Decentralized supply is meant to make regions more independent and more stable in a crisis.

The Greens want to renew the power grids and expand them where needed. There should be more electricity storage. Modern electricity meters should reach homes faster. This keeps the supply safe even in a crisis.

The Greens expect the coal phase-out in Saxony-Anhalt to come before the legal end date of late 2034 for market reasons. They therefore want to remove Lützen as a priority area for lignite and speed up the exit with a hydrogen-ready gas power plant in Schkopau.

The Greens think coal will end sooner than planned. So no coal should be mined near Lützen. A new gas power plant should be built in Schkopau. Later it should also be able to run on hydrogen.

The Greens want to support owners of heating systems in switching to renewable heat sources, on top of the federal programs. The focus is on low-income households and on areas where the switch is especially difficult.

The Greens want to help people change their heating. The state should give money on top of what the federal government gives. People with little money should get help first. Towns and cities should plan how homes will be heated in the future.

The Greens want to make switching to climate-friendly heating easier. Renovation subsidies would be scaled to income, and large heat pumps would become a core part of the heat supply.

The Greens want more people to heat their homes in a climate-friendly way. People with less money should get more help to renovate. Applying for help should be easier. Large heat pumps should supply heat to whole city districts.

The Greens want renewable energy to expand in step with nature and species protection. Solar panels should go on roofs and sealed surfaces first, and ground-mounted solar farms would face binding ecological requirements.

The Greens want to build more solar panels. Nature should stay protected. Solar panels should go on roofs first. Solar farms on open land should follow strict nature rules.

The Greens oppose new natural gas extraction projects, especially those using fracking. They cite dangers to the environment and public health.

The Greens do not want new natural gas drilling. Above all, they reject fracking. Fracking presses gas out of rock with high pressure. The party says this harms nature and health.

The Greens reject capturing, transporting or storing CO₂ underground. Instead, emissions should be avoided as far as possible in the first place.

The Greens do not want CCS. With CCS, the gas CO₂ is caught and stored under the ground. The party would rather avoid CO₂ from the start. Industry should be rebuilt for that.

The Greens want to keep building out hydrogen infrastructure in Saxony-Anhalt and to shore up demand for hydrogen. They argue the state's chemical industry will not be competitive in the future without renewably produced hydrogen.

The Greens want more green hydrogen in the state. Green hydrogen is a gas made with clean electricity. The party says the chemical industry needs it for the future. The state should support projects and buyers.

The Greens set the goal that every university in the state operates climate-neutrally by 2030 at the latest. The state would back this with investment programs and a climate protection fund; animal testing is also to be cut to a minimum.

The state's universities should be climate-neutral by 2030. That means they no longer harm the climate. The state should provide money for this. The Greens also want fewer experiments on animals. They support research without animal testing.

The Greens want all state spending to be reviewed for its climate impact and want to cut subsidies that harm the climate and environment. State money is not to be invested in nuclear energy, coal or companies that use child labor.

The Greens want to check every state expense for its effect on the climate. If an expense harms the climate, the state must give reasons for it. The state should not invest money in coal or nuclear power. Subsidies that harm the climate should end.

The Greens want Saxony-Anhalt to implement the EU Nature Restoration Regulation quickly so that damaged ecosystems return to a near-natural state. They also want to safeguard the right of recognized environmental organizations to bring lawsuits.

The Greens want to repair damaged nature quickly. There is an EU rule for this. The state should put this rule into practice soon. Environmental groups should still be allowed to go to court.

The Greens want long-term, sufficient funding for the national natural monument “Grünes Band Sachsen-Anhalt” (Green Belt). A visitor center is to be built, and the area is to combine nature conservation, remembrance and low-impact tourism.

The Green Belt lies along the former border through Germany. Today it is a protected area for nature. The Greens want to give it enough money for the long term. A center for visitors should be built.

The Greens want at least one landscape management farm for biotope development in every county. This is meant to improve how conservation measures are organized and carried out locally.

The Greens want a landscape care farm in every county. This farm looks after habitats for animals and plants. That way, nature protection should work better locally. Farmers, towns and conservationists should work together there.

The Greens want to designate more protected areas in order to link habitats into a connected biotope network. They also plan a peatland protection program and a funding program for floodplains.

The Greens want more protected areas. These areas should be connected to each other. That helps animals and plants survive. Peatlands and river floodplains should also get more protection.

The Greens want to set up a nature conservation academy to train and upskill specialists. They also want to strengthen volunteering in environmental protection, conservation associations and environmental education centers across the state.

The Greens want to found an academy for nature conservation. Specialists for nature protection learn there. Volunteers and conservation groups should get more support. Places for environmental education should get enough money.

The Greens want to continue funding for small projects in nature conservation and environmental education. The state is also to reliably provide its share of conservation programs paid for by the EU and the federal government so that funds are not lost.

The Greens want to keep funding small projects for nature. The money should come quickly and easily. The EU and the federal government pay for some conservation programs. The state should reliably pay its share.

The Greens want a statewide soil protection plan to preserve soil as a finite resource and to keep the fertile black earth soils in particular from being sealed. A new land law is meant to secure sustainable use of farmland.

Good soil is important for food. The Greens want to protect it with a plan for the whole state. Fewer large facilities should be built on valuable farmland. There should be fewer harmful substances in the soil.

The Greens want to better protect people, animals, and plants from noise and artificial light at night. Noise protection is to be expanded and nighttime lighting limited to what is needed.

The Greens want less noise. They also want less light at night. Too much light disturbs insects and birds. Less light also saves energy.

The Greens want large water users to pay more for extracting water. Given increasing droughts, this is meant to create an incentive to save.

Some businesses use a lot of water. They should pay more for it. This should make them save water. Farmers and fish farmers would get a discount.

The Greens want stronger protection of rivers, lakes, and groundwater from pollutants. Sewage plants would clean more thoroughly, land in water protection areas would be farmed only organically, and pollutant discharges banned in the long term.

The Greens want clean water. Sewage plants should filter out more pollutants. In water protection areas, farmers could only farm organically. Later, no one should be allowed to put pollutants into the water.

The Greens want to return rivers and floodplains to a more natural state and reject any expansion of the Elbe. This is meant to create habitats, secure biodiversity, and dampen floods.

The Greens want to make rivers more natural again. Rivers should get more room. The Elbe should not be expanded. There should be no new dams on it.

The Greens want to convert forests into species-rich, climate-adapted mixed forests. In state-owned forest, ecological rules stricter than the legal minimum would apply.

The Greens want healthy forests. Many different trees should grow there. This helps forests cope with heat and drought. There should be no more clear-cutting in state-owned forest.

The Greens want to strengthen the protection of farm animals through new rules and more effective inspections. This includes cameras in slaughterhouses, a ban on tail docking in pigs and keeping antibiotic use to a minimum.

The Greens want to protect farm animals better. Slaughterhouses should have to use cameras. Cutting pigs' tails should no longer be allowed. Animals should only get antibiotics when it is really needed.

The Greens want an immediate end to invasive animal experiments under the state's responsibility unless they are strictly necessary for basic biomedical research or applied medical research. Research without animal testing is to be funded instead.

The Greens want to stop many animal experiments right away. Only tests that medical research truly needs would stay allowed. Research without animals should get more money.

The Greens want new rules for keeping animals privately, including a mandatory dog owner's license, cat protection ordinances and a positive list of permitted species. Animal shelters are to be reliably funded through a state animal welfare fund.

The Greens want new rules for pets. Dog owners should have to get a dog license. A list should say which animals people may keep at home. Animal shelters should get steady money from the state.

The Greens want longer closed seasons and shorter hunting seasons so that wild animals have more time to reproduce and recover. Hunting and training methods that the party sees as violating animal welfare are to be banned.

The Greens want less hunting. Wild animals should have more quiet time each year. Some hunting methods should be banned, such as traps in the forest. Hunters should no longer be allowed to shoot dogs and cats.

The Greens want to avoid waste and keep raw materials in circulation longer. They call for a zero-waste guiding strategy for the state, a repair bonus, municipal packaging taxes and a revised waste law.

The Greens want less trash. People who get a broken device repaired should get some money back. Towns should be allowed to tax throwaway packaging. The state should not build new landfills for construction waste.

The Greens want to end waste shipments across regions and process more waste locally. They also want to find new uses for waste and recover phosphorus.

The Greens want to stop moving trash over long distances. Trash should be processed in the region. Phosphorus should be recovered from waste and wastewater. Phosphorus is an important raw material.

The Greens want to make it easier to build with timber and other renewable materials and to subsidize this. Materials already in buildings should be reused as far as possible, through recycled building materials, exchanges for used components and gypsum recycling.

The Greens want more buildings made of wood, clay, straw and hemp. Old building materials should be used again. There should be exchanges for used building parts. Gypsum waste should no longer go to landfills.

The Greens want to reduce daily land consumption significantly by 2030 and reach net zero by 2050. From then on, new sealing of land would only be possible if land is unsealed elsewhere at the same time.

The Greens want less land to be built over. By 2030 it should be much less. From 2050, anyone who builds over land must free up land somewhere else. Cities should become denser and greener at the same time.

The Greens want to clearly increase the share of organic farming and raise payments for species and environmental protection on farmland. As a long-term goal, the program names organic management of all fields, meadows, and pastures.

The Greens want more organic farming. Farmers should get more money when they protect nature. For example, for flower strips next to fields. Animals should be kept in ways that suit them.

The Greens want an agricultural structure law to strengthen small and diverse farms and counter the loss of farms. Share purchases in companies that own farmland would be regulated so that land does not go to large investors.

Big companies are buying up farmland. The Greens want a law to limit this. Small farms should be able to stay. Young farmers should be able to start more easily.

The Greens want to gradually end the use of chemical-synthetic pesticides by 2035, starting with herbicides. Substances such as PFAS and glyphosate would be banned and farms inspected more often.

The Greens want no more chemical sprays on fields. This should end by 2035. Weed killers would go first. Glyphosate would also be banned.

The Greens want to restructure livestock farming so that it follows the animals' needs and ties the number of animals to the land available. Industrial livestock farming is to shrink in order to reduce environmental damage and animal welfare problems.

The Greens want farms to keep their animals better. A farm should only have as many animals as its land can support. There should be fewer very large animal farms. Farms that treat animals well should get public money.

The Greens want to expand the bike path network statewide and provide at least 15 million euros a year for it. Bike paths would normally be built whenever state roads are constructed or substantially renovated.

The Greens want more and better bike paths. The state should spend at least 15 million euros a year on them. Bike paths should be built next to state roads. Bikes should ride for free on buses and trains.

The Greens want to expand local public transit with more frequent service, more bus routes and a simple fare system. Every village would be served at least hourly, and the regional transit associations would be merged into one statewide network.

The Greens want more buses and trains. Every village should get a bus at least once an hour. In the evening, an on-call bus can come instead. There should be one transit network for the whole state.

The Greens want to give walking more weight in transport policy. They plan a state program for safe routes to school, wider sidewalks and a dedicated state strategy for pedestrians.

The Greens want people to walk safely. Children should have safe ways to school. The state should help towns with this. Sidewalks should be wide enough and have benches.

The Greens want to maintain existing roads and bridges before new infrastructure is planned. To pay for it, heavy trucks would contribute more through a revised truck toll.

The Greens want to fix old roads and bridges first. New roads come only after that. Heavy trucks should pay more for the roads. The truck toll should be changed for this.

The Greens want 30 km/h to be the default speed in built-up areas, with municipalities able to set exceptions, and 130 km/h on all Autobahn highways. They justify this with the 'Vision Zero' goal of no traffic deaths.

The Greens want a speed limit of 30 km/h in most town streets. Towns may make exceptions. On highways, the limit should be 130 km/h. The goal is that nobody dies in traffic anymore.

The Greens want to move more freight from roads to rail and waterways. To do so, rail sidings and transfer terminals would be built and the ports on the Mittelland Canal developed further.

The Greens want fewer trucks on the roads. Goods should travel more often by train or ship. New rail links and transfer stations should be built for this. In cities, more cargo bikes should be used.

The Greens want to move the state administration to open-source software and expand digital participation. Digital services should exclude no one, and decisions should be explained in plain terms.

The Greens want state offices to use free, open software. No big company owns this kind of software. The state should depend less on US companies. Digital services should work for everyone. Offices should explain their decisions in clear language.

The Greens want nearly all administrative services to be available fully online, accessible and user-friendly by 2030. Municipalities would receive a flat-rate digitalization grant and use a shared citizens' portal.

The Greens want people to do almost everything with public offices online. This should work by 2030. People should only have to give their data once. Municipalities get money for staff and digital projects.

The Greens want to continue adding police officers up to 7,000 positions and to strengthen police administration. The job is to become more attractive through promotions and more money for IT specialists.

The Greens want to hire more police officers. The goal is 7,000 positions. Police administration should also get more staff. Officers should be promoted faster.

The Greens reject mass surveillance through chat control or facial recognition. According to the platform, security needs and civil rights are to stay in balance.

The Greens do not want surveillance of everyone. The state should not scan private chats on a mass scale. Cameras should not recognize faces automatically. Safety and freedom should both count.

The Greens reject mass surveillance in stadiums, at assemblies, public events and markets. Analysis software such as Palantir should not be introduced in Saxony-Anhalt. New police capabilities should only be allowed with clear rules, oversight and time limits.

The Greens do not want large groups of people to be watched. This applies to stadiums, protests and markets. The police should not get the Palantir software. New police tools need clear rules and oversight.

The Greens want to turn the police college in Aschersleben into an independent university with its own research. Initial and ongoing training should focus on democratic values, human rights and de-escalation. The police should also actively recruit people from different groups in society.

The Greens want to change police training. The police college in Aschersleben should become independent and do research. Officers should learn more about human rights and calming down conflicts. The police should be as diverse as society.

The Greens want to create an independent body that investigates complaints and reports of misconduct in the police. It should be easy to reach, have far-reaching powers and report to the state parliament every year. According to the program, this should strengthen trust in the security authorities.

The Greens want a new office for complaints about the police. This office should be independent. Citizens and police officers can contact it. The office reports to the state parliament every year.

The Greens want to put rehabilitation and the prevention of new crimes more firmly at the center of the prison system. To this end, prison conditions are to be improved, staff increased, and psychosocial support and addiction treatment expanded. Therapy in prison is to be paid the same as work.

The Greens want to prepare prisoners better for life after prison. There should be more staff and more therapy in prisons. People who do therapy should be paid as much as for work. There should also be suitable prison places for women in the state.

The Greens want to abolish the Ersatzfreiheitsstrafe, meaning imprisonment for people who do not pay a criminal fine. In the program's view, it mainly affects people in difficult circumstances and rarely helps rehabilitation. It is to be replaced by alternatives such as installment payments and community service.

Some people cannot pay a fine. Today they then have to go to prison. The Greens want to end this. Instead there should be installments, community service and social support.

The Greens want to give volunteer fire departments, rescue and disaster-response services more financial support. The state is to contribute more for vehicles and buildings and compensate volunteers better. Employers are to be fully reimbursed for lost wages during call-outs.

The Greens want more money for fire departments and rescue services. The state should pay more for vehicles and fire stations. Volunteers should get better compensation. Companies get money back when workers leave for an emergency.

The Greens want to lower the thresholds for referendums and citizens' petitions at the state level. Citizens' initiatives and residents' motions are also to be made easier, and municipalities would have to support referendums neutrally.

The Greens want to make citizens' votes easier. Today you need many signatures and votes for that. These numbers should go down. Towns should have to give fair information about such votes.

The Greens want to introduce citizens' assemblies across the state and make public participation a fixed task of municipalities. Participation is to be accessible and reach groups that are rarely heard. A state lobby register is to disclose who influences politics.

The Greens want citizens' assemblies across the state. There, citizens discuss important questions and give advice. Everyone should be able to take part, even with little time or money. A lobby register should show who influences politics.

The Greens want to move lawmakers' retirement benefits into the regular statutory pension system. Transitional pay after leaving office is to be paid for one year at most and offset against other income.

The Greens want to change benefits for lawmakers. Lawmakers should pay into the normal public pension system. After leaving office they get transitional pay. That should last one year at most.

The Greens want to digitize the justice system and provide funding for it so that proceedings become faster. Courts and public prosecutors' offices are to get more staff. Specialized teams are to be set up against cybercrime.

The Greens want to modernize the courts. Files should be digital and hearings should also work by video. Courts and prosecutors should get more staff. Experts should pursue crimes on the internet more effectively.

The Greens want a comprehensive open data strategy for the state and digital freedom of information. Political decisions, motions and bylaws are to be freely accessible. According to the program, this should build trust and enable oversight by citizens as well as economic innovation.

The Greens want an open administration. Government offices should show their data and decisions online. Everyone should be able to read decisions and motions. This lets citizens check politics more easily.

The Greens want to cut duplicate structures in state authorities and define responsibilities clearly. The administration is to move further toward a two-tier setup. The program names a target of 18.7 full-time positions per 1,000 residents.

The Greens want a simpler state administration. Offices should not do the same tasks twice. There should be fewer levels in the administration. There should be 18.7 full-time jobs for every 1,000 residents.

The Greens want the state constitution to guarantee children's rights to participation, not just protection. A monitoring office would check whether these rights are upheld.

The Greens want more rights for children in the state constitution. Children should also get the right to have a say. A new office should check whether the state respects these rights. Towns should have offices for children's rights.

The Greens want volunteer work to be easier to combine with a job and call for a Bildungszeitgesetz (educational leave law) for Saxony-Anhalt. Voluntary service programs are to become better known and more attractive, including through higher pocket money.

The Greens want to make volunteering easier. Volunteering means helping without pay. A new law should give workers time for further training. People in voluntary service programs should get more pocket money.

The Greens want a democracy promotion law for Saxony-Anhalt that permanently funds projects against extremism, hate and violence and shields them from short-term budget decisions. State programs for democracy and civic education are to be funded over several years.

The Greens want a new law for democracy. Projects against hate and violence should get money for the long term. They should be able to plan for several years. The state agency for civic education should be independent.

The Greens want to develop protection plans for volunteers and initiatives that face far-right threats because of their work for democracy. The focus is on municipalities with elevated levels of far-right violence.

Some people stand up for democracy. Far-right groups threaten them for it. The Greens want to protect these people better. They should get advice and legal help.

The Greens want targeted support for local newspapers and investigative journalism, especially in villages and small towns. Funding would come in part from a levy on very large platforms.

The Greens want to help local newspapers and media. This matters most in villages and small towns. Very large internet platforms should pay a levy for this. People everywhere should get reliable news.

The Greens commit to the continued existence and development of public broadcasting and to the MDR, the regional public broadcaster. At the same time, they want to cap top salaries there and increase transparency.

The Greens want to keep the MDR and public broadcasters. The highest salaries at the MDR should have a limit. The broadcaster should show more openly how it uses its money. It should offer more online.

The Greens want to strengthen bodies that detect false reports and to limit the spread of disinformation. Freedom of expression is to remain untouched.

Some groups spread false news on purpose. The Greens see this as a danger to democracy. They want to strengthen groups that spot false news. Everyone should still be free to say what they think.

The Greens see culture as an essential public service and reject cuts. At least 1.5 percent of the state budget would go to culture each year, culture would become a mandatory municipal task, and at the federal level it would be added to the constitution as a state objective.

The Greens do not want to cut money for culture. The state should spend at least 1.5 percent of its budget on culture every year. Towns and cities should be required to support culture. Once a month, museums should be free on a Sunday.

The Greens want adequate long-term funding for theaters and orchestras and a temporary fund to clear the investment backlog at theaters. The independent arts scene would get considerably more money and multi-year contracts, and a dedicated state program is planned for community arts centers.

Theaters and orchestras should get reliable money from the state. There should be a special fund to fix theater buildings. Independent artists should get more support. Contracts should run for several years. This helps them plan ahead.

The Greens want to link heritage conservation more closely with energy retrofits so that historic buildings are preserved and made fit for the future. Architecture competitions are to become the norm for large public construction projects, and disused industrial sites are to be put to cultural use.

The Greens want to keep old buildings. These buildings should use less energy. Owners should get help with repairs. Old factories should become museums or places for culture.

The Greens want to revise the state's library law because working conditions and demands on libraries have changed considerably since the last reform in 2010. A new library development plan is to be drawn up quickly, and public libraries are to be allowed to open on Sundays.

The Greens want a new law for libraries. The old law is from 2010. Libraries should be allowed to open on Sundays. There should be more library buses.

The Greens want to introduce a KulturPass 2.0 (culture pass) in Saxony-Anhalt that gives 18-year-olds a credit of 200 euros for cultural activities. The aim is for young people to be able to enjoy art and culture even when money is tight.

The Greens want a culture pass for 18-year-olds. Each person gets 200 euros for culture. The money can be used for concerts, theater and books. This way young people with little money can enjoy culture too.

The Greens want to expand cultural education from daycare through continuing education and to promote remembrance culture as part of it. They also call for more architectural culture in teaching, artist fellowships at universities and more youth cultural work.

The Greens want more culture in daycare and schools. Memorial sites and museums should get protection and money. They recall the Nazi era, East Germany and colonial times. Young people should get more places for their own culture.

The Greens want to renovate sports facilities and swimming pools, cut red tape in sports funding and help clubs with energy costs and renovations. Elite and youth sports are also to get more support, and sports are to be inclusive and free of discrimination.

The Greens want to repair sports halls and swimming pools. Sports clubs should have less paperwork. They should get help with energy costs. Everyone should have the same chance to do sports.

The Greens want to allow families to keep urns at home and to scatter ashes in their own garden, in nature or at designated public places. This is meant to meet many people's wish for a self-determined burial.

The Greens want more freedom in burials. Families should be allowed to keep the urn at home. People should be allowed to scatter ashes in the garden or in nature. Burial in a river should also be allowed.