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The Left wants to make insurance against natural hazard damage mandatory for all property owners while also creating a right to obtain it. It justifies this with more frequent extreme weather caused by the climate crisis.

The Left wants insurance against damage from severe weather. All property owners should have to take it out. They should also have a right to get it. The insurance should be affordable.

The platform points out that the climate crisis makes extreme weather with heavy damage more likely. It therefore calls for both a legal entitlement and an obligation to be insured. Every owner should be able to insure their building on affordable terms.

The Left wants to create several additional public holidays in Saxony: March 8 as Women's Day, May 8 as the Day of Liberation from Fascism, and a Children's and Family Friday in June. The state's culture of remembrance is to be given an anti-fascist orientation.

The Left wants new public holidays in Saxony. March 8 should be Women's Day. May 8 should mark the end of Nazi rule. In June there should be a holiday for children and families.

The "Children's and Family Friday" would fall on the first Friday in June. Elsewhere the platform speaks of a feminist day of struggle as a public holiday. Memorial sites are to receive more funding.

The Left wants to drop the Buß- und Bettag (Protestant Day of Repentance and Prayer) as a public holiday and introduce a family holiday around World Children's Day instead. International Women's Day on March 8 is also to become a holiday. May 8 is to be a day of remembrance.

The Left wants to change the public holidays in Saxony. The Day of Repentance and Prayer should go. A family holiday should replace it. Women's Day on March 8 should become a holiday too.

Saxony is the only German state where the Day of Repentance and Prayer is still a public holiday. The new family holiday is to fall around World Children's Day. May 8 is to serve as a day of remembrance for the liberation from National Socialism and the end of the war in Europe.

The Left puts club and grassroots sports at the center of its sports policy and wants children and teenagers to use sports facilities for free. The state is to fund municipalities so they can build and maintain facilities. Sports offerings in small towns are to take priority over more money for elite sports.

The Left wants more support for sports clubs. Children and teenagers should use fields and gyms for free. Towns should get more money for sports facilities. Volunteers in sports should get more support too.

The platform puts the investment backlog for sports facilities at about 1.5 billion euros and calls for a "Saxon Golden Plan" for sports development planning. Clubs doing youth work and disability sports are to get special support, and a special program is to cover extra costs for integration and inclusion. The party opposes anti-queer hostility in sports and backs recognition of esports by the DOSB (German Olympic Sports Confederation). It wants limits on commercialization, especially in soccer, and police are to act in a de-escalating way toward fans. Volunteers are to get educational leave, easier access to the tax-free volunteer allowance and pension credits.

The Left wants to keep outdoor and indoor pools, fund them adequately and give all children free admission. The platform points out that drowning is among the most common fatal accidents for children. Every child should therefore learn to swim.

The Left wants every child to learn to swim. Indoor and outdoor pools should stay open. Children should not pay admission. The state should build new swimming halls.

A funding program for pools is meant to respond to higher operating costs and the shortage of pool staff. Funding for swimming facilities is to get its own line in the state budget. In each legislative term, at least one new indoor pool is to be built and another renovated. The party wants to recruit swimming instructors in swimming clubs.