SPD: program for the 2026 Saxony-Anhalt state election

The SPD wants to relieve skilled trades, small businesses and mid-sized companies of bureaucracy. New laws would be checked for added reporting duties, and documentation requirements would be simplified or dropped.

The SPD wants less paperwork for businesses. New laws should be checked first. They should not make businesses write extra reports. Applying for state funding should also get easier.

The SPD wants an active industrial policy that backs renewable energy, climate-friendly production, the circular economy and new technologies. Existing industries would get help modernizing, and a climate start-up grant (Klimagründungsgeld) is meant to attract new ones.

The SPD wants to keep industry strong in the state. Factories should work in a more climate-friendly way. The state should help them do that. A new grant should bring new companies to the state.

The SPD wants to give top priority to supporting the chemical industry in the central German chemical triangle as it moves to climate-neutral production. A task force would review and adjust the state's policy framework every six months.

The chemical industry is very important for Saxony-Anhalt. In the future it should produce without harming the climate. The SPD wants to help it do that. A working group from politics, government offices and industry should meet twice a year.

The SPD wants to make founding a company easier through simpler funding, including a start-up bonus. Research and business are to work together more closely so innovations reach practice faster.

The SPD wants to make it easier to start a company. Funding should be simpler to get. Young companies should get a bonus. Universities and companies should work together more closely.

The SPD wants to gear the state's tourism strategy toward sustainable, low-impact tourism. Infrastructure, bike paths and rail connections are to be secured and expanded.

The SPD wants more visitors to come to the state. Tourism should be gentle on nature. Bike paths and train connections should get better. Offers should also work well for people with disabilities.

The SPD wants to shape structural change so that no one is left behind. Investment in new jobs, retraining and regional business hubs is planned, especially in former mining regions.

The economy in the state is changing a lot. The SPD wants nobody to lose their future because of that. The state should pay for new jobs and retraining. This applies most to former mining areas.

The SPD wants collectively agreed wages in all industries and stands by the state's Tariftreue- und Vergabegesetz (law tying public contracts to collective wage standards). Companies that systematically obstruct co-determination would lose access to state subsidies.

The SPD wants more people to be paid under union wage agreements. Workers should have a say in their company. Companies that block this should get no state funding. A state law on fair wages in public contracts should stay.

The SPD aims for a training fund that all companies pay into, so that small and mid-sized firms that train apprentices are not at a disadvantage. It also wants a cheaper Deutschlandticket and driver's license for young people and paid mandatory internships.

The SPD wants a fund for job training. All companies should pay into it. Then companies that train young people are not worse off. A driver's license and the Deutschlandticket should cost young people less. Required internships should be paid.

The SPD wants to keep funding continuing education and permanently secure advisory structures such as the continuing education agencies. People who have had trouble finding work would be reached with targeted training offers.

The world of work is changing. So the SPD wants to keep paying for further training. Advice centers for this should stay for good. People without job training or with disabilities should also get fitting offers.

The SPD wants to make it easier for people with disabilities to move from sheltered workshops into the general labor market. The platform argues that too many people work in workshops even though employers could use them.

Many people with disabilities work in special workshops. The SPD wants more of them to work in regular companies. The switch should become easier. Public offices should also hire more people with disabilities.

The SPD names fighting poverty, especially among children and older people, as a central task. Help is to be quick to reach and free of stigma, and counseling services are to be strengthened across the state.

The SPD wants to fight poverty. Children and old people in particular should get help. Counseling services should be strengthened, for example for debt or addiction. Schools and public offices should offer free pads and tampons.

The SPD wants to fight child poverty with a Kindergrundsicherung (basic child allowance) and launch a Bundesrat initiative for it. It also advocates a free hot lunch for all children and teenagers in daycare and school. According to the platform, one in seven children currently grows up in poverty.

The SPD wants to fight child poverty. It wants a basic child allowance. This is one payment that combines several kinds of help for children. All children should get a hot lunch in daycare and school. The lunch should be free.

The SPD wants more reliable funding for voluntary service programs and wants to raise the allowance and the meal subsidy to a level that protects against poverty. At the federal level it will push for a legal right to a place.

Some people work for the community for a year as volunteers. The SPD wants to give them more pocket money. Everyone should have a right to a place. The SPD wants to push for this at the federal level.

The SPD wants to pass collective bargaining results on to civil servants without delay, introduce a flat-rate health allowance and expand the rights of staff councils. According to the platform, this is meant to secure the attractiveness and performance of the public sector.

Civil servants should get pay raises right away. They should be free to choose public or private health insurance. Staff representatives should get more rights. The SPD wants to attract good people to work for the state.

The SPD does not want social security to be financed one-sidedly through labor. The state is to push at the federal level for very high capital income and large transfers of wealth to contribute more.

Today, mainly working people pay for social security. The SPD finds that one-sided. People who earn a lot from capital should pay more. The same goes for large inheritances and gifts. The state should push for this at the federal level.

The SPD wants to push at the federal level for tax and contribution relief for low-income households. To that end, the sales tax on basic foods and the electricity tax are to go down. The program justifies this with rising inequality and with the claim that full-time work does not pay enough because of high contributions.

People with little money should pay less in taxes and contributions. Basic foods and electricity should get cheaper. Mini-jobs should no longer exist in this form. Families with little money should get help buying a home.

To pay for the relief measures, the SPD wants to push at the federal level to scrap tax advantages for income from wealth and financial returns. Fortunes above 100 million euros are to be taxed at two percent. A tax on financial transactions is to be added.

Very rich people should pay more taxes. Anyone who owns more than 100 million euros should pay a 2 percent tax on it. Gains from stocks, rents and interest should be taxed like wages. The SPD wants to use the money to give other people relief.

The SPD wants to push in the Bundesrat for a new wealth tax, a revised inheritance tax and a levy on windfall profits during crises. The platform argues that the welfare state and the green transition need funding and that those who can afford more should contribute more.

The SPD wants a tax on large fortunes. Large inheritances should also be taxed more. The SPD wants to demand this in the Bundesrat. That is the chamber of the German states. The money should pay for the welfare state and climate action.

The SPD wants to press at the federal level for sparsely populated states to count for more in Germany's fiscal equalization system. The background is the expectation that Saxony-Anhalt could have fewer than two million residents in ten years.

German states share tax money with each other. The SPD wants more money for states with few people. Saxony-Anhalt is losing residents. Life should still be similarly good everywhere.

The SPD wants to keep the state budget sustainable in the long term, reduce debt and still make investment possible. Money from the federal special fund is to go mainly into education, health care, energy and digital networks.

The SPD wants to handle the state's money carefully. The state should pay down debt. But it should still be able to invest. Federal money should go to schools, health care, energy and internet. The state should keep saving for pensions of civil servants.

The SPD wants to stop paying for permanent tasks in social services, culture, education and youth welfare through short-term project grants. In the platform's view, the current practice creates uncertainty and makes planning harder.

Many social services only get money for short projects. The SPD wants to change that. Permanent tasks should get permanent money. Then the organizations can plan better. Applying for funding should become simpler and digital.

The SPD wants to design municipal fiscal equalization so that it covers the real tasks of municipalities. Municipalities should only be given new tasks if their funding is fully secured.

The state gives money to towns and villages. The SPD wants this money to match their tasks. New tasks should only come with enough money. Towns with high social costs should get extra help.

The SPD wants to reorganize financial relations between the federal government and the states so that municipalities receive a larger share of public revenue. A fluctuation fund and a permanent investment program are meant to give municipalities additional security.

The SPD thinks towns and villages get too little money. They should receive more of the taxes. A fund should help when revenue suddenly drops. A permanent program should provide money for schools, daycare centers and roads.

The SPD wants to expand social housing, especially for older people, people with disabilities, families, students and trainees. Municipal and cooperative housing companies are to remain part of public services. Heating and electricity are also to stay affordable.

The SPD wants to fund more low-cost homes. This is mainly for older people, families, students and trainees. Housing companies owned by towns should not be forced to sell. Heating and power should stay affordable.

The SPD wants to shorten planning and permitting procedures and free construction from what it sees as excessive bureaucracy. Alongside this, towns and villages are to be kept lively through urban development funding and local shops.

The SPD wants building to go faster. Offices should check applications more quickly. There should be less paperwork. Towns and villages should also get help. They should keep shops and meeting places.

The SPD wants to expand youth work in the state. County-level youth councils would get more money and staff, and young people would receive their own budgets for projects. Youth clubs and self-organized spaces would continue to be supported.

The SPD wants to do more for young people. Youth groups should get more money and more staff. Young people should have their own money for projects. Youth clubs should be repaired and supported.

The SPD wants to pool counseling services for families and develop them into family counseling centers. Family policy should reflect the diversity of family forms. The state would also back a Bundesrat initiative against discrimination toward rainbow families and queer people.

Families should get help in one place. The SPD wants to create family counseling centers for this. The SPD says there are many kinds of families. Rainbow families should not be treated worse.

The SPD wants to strengthen Frühe Hilfen (early support for families), family social work, and family education. Early support is meant to relieve families, prevent risks to child welfare, and limit later youth welfare costs. Houses of Juvenile Justice would also be made possible.

Families should get help early. This is meant to protect children. The SPD wants to expand social work for families. When young people commit crimes, police, prosecutors, and youth services should work together in one place.

The SPD wants every young person to receive a suitable vocational training offer, even without a school diploma. Career guidance through the state program BRAFO would be extended to all secondary schools.

The SPD wants every young person to get an offer for job training. This should also apply to young people without a school diploma. Students should learn about jobs early. This should happen at all secondary schools.

The SPD wants daycare centers and elementary schools to shape children's transition together. The platform sees early support as the basis for language, social development and later success in learning.

Education already starts in daycare. The SPD wants daycare centers and elementary schools to work together firmly. Children should be examined earlier before they start school. They should get more help with language.

The SPD wants a comprehensive program to make sure classes take place reliably. In elementary school, reading, writing and math are to get more time. Long-term education monitoring is meant to show where schools need support.

The SPD wants fewer canceled classes. It plans a large program for this. Elementary schools should have more time for reading and math. The state should check regularly how well children learn.

In the medium term, the SPD wants only two types of secondary school: the Gymnasium (academic track) and the Gemeinschaftsschule (comprehensive school). The aim is for every school-leaving certificate to be attainable everywhere in the state.

The SPD wants to change the school system. After elementary school there should be only two kinds of school. These are the Gymnasium and the comprehensive school. Then all children can earn any diploma anywhere.

The SPD plans a state school construction program to make school buildings accessible and modern. Rural school sites are to be kept even where student numbers decline.

The SPD wants to rebuild and modernize schools. The state should start a building program for this. Schools should become accessible for everyone. Schools in the countryside should stay open.

The SPD wants to keep university-based teacher training with 1,200 study places and make it more practice-oriented. Career changers entering teaching are to get better support and pay. The party also seeks a new working-time model for teachers.

The SPD wants to keep training many teachers. There will still be 1,200 study places. People who switch from another job should get good help and fair pay. Older teachers should have to teach fewer hours.

The SPD wants to secure school social work permanently with state funds and raise the funding substantially. Schools are to work with teams from different professions to support students' learning.

The SPD wants to pay for school social work for good. The money should come from the state. There should also be more money than today. Experts from many jobs should work together at schools.

The SPD wants to back joint learning of children with and without special needs with more staff and counseling. Special-needs schools are to remain where they are needed. Learning materials, including digital devices, are to be free so that education does not depend on parents' income.

Children with and without disabilities should be able to learn together. There should be more teacher hours and help for this. Special schools stay where they are needed. School materials and devices like tablets should cost nothing.

The SPD wants to preserve the network of vocational schools and widen career and study guidance at all school types. Young people without a diploma are to get into training more easily. The platform treats vocational education as equal in value to academic education.

The SPD wants to keep the vocational schools in the state. All schools should inform more about jobs and college. Young people without a diploma should find training more easily. Job training should count as much as a degree.

The SPD rejects tuition fees and does not want international students to bear a one-sided financial burden either. Universities are to gain stability through reliable agreements and adequate core funding. Student services organizations are to be strengthened.

The SPD wants no fees for college. Students from abroad should not pay extra either. Universities should get enough money from the state. Student services should get more help, for example for cheap housing.

The SPD wants to keep the statewide daycare network even as the number of children falls and leave the existing care entitlement untouched. The Kita STABIL program would continue beyond 2028, and staffing ratios would improve step by step. In the long term, daycare should be free of charge.

The SPD wants to keep all daycare centers in the state. Children should still be able to get up to ten hours of care a day. There should be more staff for the children. Later, parents should not pay for daycare anymore. Old daycare buildings should be renovated.

The SPD wants to keep existing hospitals running through lasting state investment funding. The hospital landscape is to be guided by quality, accessibility and efficiency rather than by the interests of capital.

The SPD wants to keep the hospitals in the state. The state should give money for this in the long run. If a private owner pulls out, counties or cities should be able to take over. The state should help with money. Doctors should also be able to help by video.

The SPD counts maternity care close to home as part of basic medical services. Existing maternity wards are to stay as long as quality is ensured, and there are to be more midwife-led delivery rooms.

Women should be able to give birth close to home. The SPD wants to keep the maternity wards. The quality has to be right. There should be more delivery rooms run by midwives.

The SPD wants to organize care so that people can live independently at home for as long as possible, and to push for a care reform in the Bundesrat. At the same time, care work is to be relieved of red tape.

Old and sick people should be able to live at home for a long time. The SPD wants to strengthen help in the neighborhood. The federal government should reform care. Care workers should have less paperwork. From age 65 there should be a voluntary health check.

The SPD wants training in all health professions to be free of school fees and to come with trainee pay. Together with other measures, this is meant to address the shortage of health workers.

People who train for a health job should not pay school fees. The SPD also wants trainees to get paid. That way more people should learn these jobs. The state also wants to keep more doctors in rural areas.

The SPD wants psychiatric and psychotherapeutic care to match demand because mental illness is on the rise. Prevention, early detection and the public health service are also to be strengthened.

More and more people have mental illnesses. The SPD wants more help and advice for them. Waiting times for treatment should get shorter. Prevention should also matter more, for example against cancer and addiction.

The SPD sees Saxony-Anhalt as dependent on skilled workers from Europe and beyond and wants an open skilled-labor policy. For the party this includes a welcoming culture in workplaces, schools, volunteer groups and municipalities.

Saxony-Anhalt does not have enough skilled workers. So the SPD wants to bring in workers from other countries. These people should feel welcome in the state. They should be able to become part of society.

The SPD says Saxony-Anhalt depends on immigration because of its shortage of skilled workers and labor. Immigrants are to learn the language quickly, have their qualifications recognized and be allowed to work; the party rejects work bans.

Saxony-Anhalt does not have enough workers. The SPD says the state needs people from abroad. They should learn German quickly and be allowed to work. The SPD is against work bans. Foreign degrees should be recognized faster.

The SPD sees daycare centers and schools as key places for integration. Immigrant children are not to be taught separately and are to receive equivalent education from the start, including in initial reception centers.

Children from other countries should learn together with everyone else. The SPD does not want separate classes for them. Children in reception centers should also get good schooling. Refugees live there at first. Daycare centers and schools should give more help with learning German.

The SPD wants immigrants who work, study, or are in vocational training to be able to stay. Voluntary return would be supported, and deportations would be only a last resort. At the same time, residence law would be enforced and procedures handled swiftly.

People who work, study, or do job training should be allowed to stay. The SPD wants to support voluntary return. Deportations should only be the last resort. Procedures should be fast and fair.

The SPD wants equal opportunities for women and men at work. Family-friendly working-time models are meant to distribute paid work and care work more fairly, and more women are to be drawn into STEM jobs and the skilled trades.

Women look after children and relatives more often than men. This puts them at a disadvantage at work. The SPD wants to change that. Working hours should fit family life better. More women should take up technical jobs and skilled trades.

The SPD wants to back initiatives that remove abortion from criminal law and to replace mandatory counseling with a right to counseling. It bases this on women's right to reproductive self-determination.

Abortion is part of criminal law today. The SPD wants to change that. Women should no longer have to go to counseling. But they should have a right to counseling. There should be doctors nearby who perform abortions.

The SPD treats inclusion as the yardstick of social policy. Accessibility and assistance are to be expanded, the allowance for deaf people raised and a regularly meeting disability parliament set up.

People with disabilities should be able to take part everywhere. The SPD wants more accessibility and more help in daily life. Deaf people should get more money. There should be a disability parliament that meets regularly.

The SPD wants to expand women's shelters, safe apartments, and counseling centers statewide and implement the requirements of the Istanbul Convention and the Gewalthilfegesetz (federal violence assistance act). Every affected woman should find help quickly anywhere in the state. The platform points to a rise of about 33 percent in recorded domestic violence cases between 2020 and 2024.

The SPD wants to protect women better from violence. There should be more women's shelters and safe apartments. There should be counseling in rural areas too. No woman should have to pay for her place in a shelter. Violence on the internet should also be prosecuted.

The SPD wants to introduce a parity law that ensures equal participation of women and men in the state's parliaments. It argues that equal democratic participation requires adequate representation.

There are more men than women in the parliaments. The SPD wants to change that. A law should make sure there are as many women as men. This is called a parity law.

The SPD wants to make March 8 a public holiday and create a state anti-discrimination law. Equal opportunity officers are to get more rights, including their own right to sue.

March 8 is Women's Day. The SPD wants it to be a public holiday. A new law should protect people from unfair treatment. Equal opportunity officers should be allowed to go to court.

The SPD wants to continue the state program "Queer leben in Sachsen-Anhalt" and give it fixed goals and sufficient funding. The centers for gender diversity are to grow into places for counseling and care.

Queer people are, for example, lesbian, gay or trans. The SPD wants more counseling for them. A study should show how they live in the state. The state program for queer people should go on.

The SPD wants public administration and public institutions to act as role models for equality and respect. It is also considering evaluating the state budget for its effects on the different genders.

Public offices should be a role model for equality. They should accept names and pronouns that people choose themselves. They should use language that includes all genders. The SPD is also looking at how state money affects women and men.

The SPD wants to continue the energy transition while keeping energy prices affordable for businesses and households. To that end it calls for a broad cap on grid fees, a lower electricity tax and digitalized grids.

The SPD wants more power from wind and sun. Power should still be affordable. So the cost of using the power grid should be limited. The tax on electricity should also go down.

The SPD wants more of the profits from wind and solar plants to stay in the state. A state program would help municipalities invest in renewables and set up county utilities (Kreiswerke); low-income renters would get subsidies for balcony solar units.

The SPD wants towns and counties to make their own wind and solar power. The state should give them money for this. Then the profits stay in the region. Renters with little money should get help to buy small solar units for their balcony.

The SPD wants a state climate protection law with fixed pathways for cutting greenhouse gases. It is meant to make targets verifiable and give municipalities, business and society planning certainty. The burdens are to be shared in a socially fair way.

The SPD wants a climate protection law for the state. It says how much greenhouse gases must fall. That way people can check the goals. People with little money should not carry more of the burden than others.

The SPD wants to gradually set up a climate fund that pays for measures to adapt to heat, heavy rain and drought. Municipalities are to get technical and financial help with climate protection, heat planning and heat action plans.

There is more heat, heavy rain and drought. The SPD wants to build a climate fund for this. That is a pot of money for protective measures. Cities and towns should get help from the state.

The SPD wants to rewet peatlands, restore floodplains and reforest with climate-resilient trees because these areas store CO₂ and strengthen biodiversity. Nature conservation is to be carried out voluntarily and together with farmers, associations and municipalities.

The SPD wants to protect peatlands, floodplains and forests. These areas store CO₂ and help many animals and plants. Nature protection should be voluntary and done in talks with local people. Farmers should take part too.

The SPD wants to hold more water in the landscape, keep the public water supply affordable and complete flood protection. The platform regards flood protection as protection of the population.

The SPD wants more water to stay in the ground. Drinking water should stay affordable. The repair of the dikes should be finished. Towns should get better warnings about floods and heavy rain.

The SPD wants a statewide ban on wild animals in circuses and in private keeping. Outdoor cats would have to be neutered, and animal shelters would get reliable funding. According to the platform, the aim is to prevent animal suffering.

The SPD wants to protect animals better. Circuses should no longer be allowed to have wild animals. Private people should not keep wild animals either. Cats that roam outside should be neutered. Animal shelters should get enough money.

The SPD wants to give agriculture planning certainty and simplify permit and record-keeping duties without lowering standards. The state is also to get its own guiding vision for farm policy.

Farmers should have less paperwork. The rules that protect nature and animals stay the same. Farmers should only have to enter data once. The state should make a shared plan together with farmers.

The SPD wants young farmers and people starting farms to get easier access to land, as many farm handovers are coming up. To that end, the state land company (Landgesellschaft) is to be strengthened. Federally owned BVVG land is to come under state responsibility in the long term.

Many farms will soon get new owners. Young farmers should get land more easily. A state-owned company should provide land for this. Land owned by the federal government should later be managed by the state.

The SPD wants to keep EU farm funding at its current level and pay farms for services to the environment, climate and animal welfare in a way that adds to their income. Crop farming is to be adapted to climate change.

Farmers get money from the EU. The SPD wants the amount to stay the same. Farmers who protect nature, climate and animals should earn money for it. Crop growing should cope better with heat and drought.

The SPD wants to fund the conversion of livestock farming, combining animal welfare with economic prospects for farms. Regional slaughtering and marketing are to receive funding again so that animal transports become shorter.

Farm animals should live better. Farmers should get money for better barns. There should be more slaughterhouses nearby again. Then animals do not have to travel so far. Dairy farmers should get fixed contracts.

The SPD wants to convert the state's forests into permanent forests that can withstand climate change. The state forestry enterprise is to get more staff and expertise. Hunting law and wildfire protection are to be adapted accordingly.

The SPD wants to change the forests. The forests should cope better with heat and drought. The state forestry service should get more staff. Protection against forest fires should also improve.

The SPD wants to preserve the state's agricultural schools and university institutions and fund them adequately. Vocational training is to be strengthened and its content updated. The reasoning given is that only well-trained farmers can handle future challenges.

The SPD wants to strengthen training for farming. Schools and universities for farming should get enough money. There should be more teachers. Every farm should have fast internet.

The SPD wants every school student to receive a Deutschlandticket (nationwide public transit pass). Children and teenagers, especially in rural areas, should be able to get around independently, safely, and affordably. On-demand and night buses as well as bike paths would also be expanded.

All school students should get a Deutschlandticket. This is a pass for buses and trains. There should be more on-call buses and night buses. Safe bike paths also matter to the SPD.

The SPD wants reliable, affordable public transit in every region and sets a mobility guarantee as the goal. The Deutschlandticket is to be secured for the long term and subsidized for seniors. Transit contracts are to be tied to collective bargaining agreements.

The SPD wants good buses and trains across the whole state. Everyone should be able to get around everywhere. The Deutschlandticket should stay affordable. Older people should get money toward it. Students and trainees should ride for free later on.

The SPD wants the state to run rail services itself through a joint company with Deutsche Bahn, dropping competitive tenders. According to the platform, this would save money and give employees security. Rail service is also to be expanded.

The state should run its trains itself. To do this, it should set up a company together with Deutsche Bahn. The SPD says this saves money and protects jobs. There should be more trains and new stops. No rail line should be closed.

The SPD wants to permanently spend at least a tenth of the state's road construction money on walking and cycling. A seamless statewide cycling network is to be built. The money is to go where routes are unsafe or missing.

The SPD wants more money for sidewalks and bike paths. At least a tenth of the road money should go there. A network of bike paths should cover the whole state. Bikes can still travel for free on regional trains.

The SPD wants to clear the investment backlog for roads and bridges, giving priority to repairs. Certain new construction projects are to go ahead anyway. The goal of zero road deaths (Vision Zero) is also to be pursued quickly.

The SPD wants to fix broken roads and bridges. Repairs come before new building. Some new bridges and roads should still be built. Traffic should become safer. Getting a driver's license should cost less.

The SPD wants to strengthen the state as a logistics hub while moving more freight onto rail and waterways. Leipzig/Halle Airport is to manage without permanent subsidies and cause less noise and CO2. Towns hit hardest by aircraft noise would receive money from a special fund.

The SPD wants more goods to travel by train and ship. Leipzig/Halle Airport should not get permanent money from the state. It should become quieter. Towns with a lot of aircraft noise should get money. Truck drivers should get better rest stops.

The SPD supports stricter rules on children's and teenagers' access to social media, graded by age. In schools, digital learning tools and media literacy are to be expanded without replacing the relationship between teacher and child.

The SPD wants stricter rules for social media. The rules should depend on a child's age. The platforms should have fixed duties. At school, children should learn more about media.

The SPD wants the state to develop digital administrative services as centrally as possible and provide them to municipalities. This is meant to relieve cities and towns of implementation work. According to the program, the goals are better service, faster procedures and more transparency.

Local offices should become more digital. The state should develop the software itself. Towns can then simply use it. Citizens should have to give their data only once.

The SPD wants administrative procedures to be handled fully digitally and wants the state administration to use open-source software in place of non-European programs. Artificial intelligence should assist but not make decisions in individual cases; the party rejects software such as Palantir.

The SPD wants public office procedures to be fully digital. This covers everything from the application to the decision. The state should use open-source software. With open-source software, anyone can look at the program code. The SPD does not want programs like Palantir.

The SPD wants to strengthen the police with sufficient personnel, modern equipment, and better working conditions. More money for promotions is meant to clear the promotion backlog, and pay would also be improved. At the same time, the independent police commissioner would be strengthened.

The police should have enough staff. They should get good technology and modern buildings. Police officers should be promoted faster. The police commissioner should become more independent. This person looks into complaints about the police.

The SPD wants to keep all existing prison sites in the state and not move any more prison places to other states. Housing inmates close to home is meant to support rehabilitation. Open prison arrangements would be used more often.

The prisons in Saxony-Anhalt should stay. Prisoners should not be moved to other states. They should stay close to their families. More prisoners should go to open prisons. There, prisoners have more freedom.

The SPD wants to keep supporting municipalities in fire protection and to continue buying fire trucks centrally through the state. A statewide needs plan for disaster protection is to be drawn up by 2031. All helpers are to have equal legal status during operations.

The SPD wants to strengthen fire departments in the state. The state will keep buying fire trucks for towns. There should be money for fire stations. By 2031 there should be a plan for disaster protection.

The SPD wants municipalities to be required to involve young people and advocates a voting age of 16. A binding youth support plan is to be drawn up with youth work organizations.

Young people should have a say in their town. The SPD wants to make this a duty for towns. Young people should be allowed to vote at 16. Youth organizations should get enough money.

The SPD wants to give courts and prosecutors' offices more staff and technology and rejects a hiring freeze. Training and career paths in the justice system would be reformed. A binding plan with timelines would be drawn up for digitalizing the justice system.

Courts should get more staff and better technology. The SPD wants to keep hiring new people in the justice system. Training should become more modern. The justice system should work more digitally. There should be a fixed plan for this.

The SPD wants to use the Bundesrat to have it examined whether proceedings to ban the AfD should be initiated. The Verfassungsschutz (domestic intelligence agency) would get more staff and better equipment to respond to right-wing extremism, sabotage, and espionage. Parliamentary oversight of the agency would remain in place.

The SPD wants to have it checked whether the AfD can be banned. This should happen through the Bundesrat. The domestic intelligence agency should get more staff and equipment. Parliament should keep overseeing the agency. Groups working against extremism will keep getting money.

The SPD wants to draw up a state strategy against loneliness and give more support to volunteer work. According to the program, loneliness weakens social cohesion and democratic participation.

Many people feel lonely. The SPD wants a plan against this. People who volunteer for others should get more help. There should be a law on volunteering.

The SPD wants to introduce citizens' assemblies and lower the hurdles for popular initiatives and referendums. It presents this as its answer to weakening party loyalty and growing skepticism toward politics.

The SPD wants citizens to have more of a say. There should be citizens' assemblies. In them, citizens discuss hard topics. Votes by the people should also become easier.

The SPD wants to continue and expand the state program for democracy, diversity and openness and fund projects over several years. A specialized prosecutor's office is to handle right-wing extremist crimes.

The SPD wants to pay for democracy projects for longer and more reliably. A special prosecutor's office should deal with far-right crimes. Schools should do more against racism and sexism. People should learn to spot false news online.

The SPD wants to give volunteer local politicians better support. Their expense allowances are to be made fully tax-free, and a state program is to protect them. According to the program, political engagement should not lead to financial disadvantages.

Many people do local politics in their free time. The SPD wants to help these people. They should pay no taxes on their volunteer allowance. A state program should protect them from attacks.

The SPD wants to introduce a citizens' budget for cities and towns. Twenty euros per resident are to be made available, and local people decide together how to use the money. This is meant to fund voluntary tasks and strengthen democratic participation.

The SPD wants to introduce a citizens' budget. This is money that citizens decide on themselves. Each town should get 20 euros per person. Local people then decide together what the money is for.

The SPD wants Saxony-Anhalt to push at the federal level for an addition to the Basic Law (Germany's constitution). The program cites the rise of far-right forces as the reason. The state constitution is to serve as a model.

The SPD wants to add to the Basic Law. The Basic Law is Germany's constitution. It should contain clear rules against racism and hatred of Jews. The constitution of Saxony-Anhalt should be the model.

The SPD calls for distributing federal agencies fairly across all German states and strengthening those located in Saxony-Anhalt. All federal ministries are to move completely from Bonn to Berlin. East Germans are to be better represented in leadership positions in the federal administration.

The SPD wants more federal agencies in all German states. All ministries should move fully to Berlin. Today some are still in Bonn. More people from eastern Germany should become leaders in federal agencies.

The SPD wants to pool administrative tasks, make procedures easier to understand and promote cooperation between the state and municipalities. In the platform's view, a functioning administration is a precondition for trust in the state and for economic development.

The SPD wants to organize public offices better. Offices should handle tasks together. Forms and official letters should come with plain-language explanations. The state, towns and counties should work together more. Offices should also be located in rural areas.

The SPD wants to make Europe more visible in everyday life and in education. The EU is to become a fixed part of several curricula, and all young people should be able to take part in a European youth exchange once. Partnerships with regions and cities in Europe are to be strengthened.

The SPD wants people to know Europe better. Students should learn more about the EU. Every young person should be able to join an exchange in Europe once. The parents' money should not matter.

The SPD wants to preserve European funding for Saxony-Anhalt and pushes for an early start to the 2028–2034 funding period. Management of structural funding is to stay with the states and municipalities. The party rejects distributing the money through the federal budget.

Saxony-Anhalt gets money from the EU. The SPD wants this to continue. The state and the towns should decide on the money themselves. The rules for funding should become simpler.

The SPD calls on the federal government to expand civil protection and civil defense in Saxony-Anhalt. The program justifies this with the tense security situation and the state's logistical role if NATO's mutual defense clause is triggered. At the same time, it stresses that security does not come from military means alone.

The situation in Europe is unsafe. The SPD wants more protection for people in the state. The federal government should take care of that. But the SPD also wants talks and disarmament.

The SPD wants to fund the state's cultural foundations reliably and invest in maintaining historic buildings. Buildings and art from the East German era are also to be recorded and preserved.

Saxony-Anhalt has many old buildings and museums. The SPD wants to keep them and pay for that. Buildings from East German times should also be protected. Museums should keep developing.

The SPD wants to fund culture over several years, simplify procedures and tie public money to minimum social standards and minimum fees. It also wants to defend artistic freedom and make access to culture easier for everyone.

Culture should get money further in advance. Artists should get a minimum fee. Tickets should be cheaper for many groups. Computer games should also get funding.

The SPD wants to extend the contracts for theaters and orchestras and end in-house pay agreements and forced part-time work there. Music schools, clubs, libraries and cultural offerings in rural areas are to be strengthened.

Theaters and orchestras should get money reliably. Staff there should no longer be forced to work part-time. Music schools should not get more expensive. Libraries should be allowed to open on Sundays.

The SPD wants to strengthen and protect Jewish life and create the office of an antisemitism commissioner. The churches are to keep receiving support, and Islamic communities are to be backed on their way to equal legal standing.

The SPD wants to protect Jewish life. There should be a commissioner against hatred of Jews. The churches should keep getting help from the state. The SPD also wants to support Muslim communities.

The SPD wants to double the flat-rate grants for sports clubs, adjust them regularly and write them into law. An investment program is to secure swimming pools, and sports facilities are to be modernized.

Sports clubs should get twice as much money from the state. The SPD wants to renew swimming pools and gyms. Children should be able to learn to swim. People with disabilities should find it easier to do sports.

The SPD wants to support e-sports and put them on an equal footing with traditional sports. A funding guideline is also meant to cover addiction prevention and media literacy.

E-sports means playing video games as a competition. The SPD wants to support e-sports. They should be treated like other sports. The plan also includes protection against gaming addiction.