SPD on other topics

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 current contact person for Jewish life is to become an antisemitism commissioner. The SPD backs statewide Jewish culture days. Support for the churches is to take place in dialogue and respect the separation of church and state as well as the diversity of worldviews. The program praises the churches' work in areas such as pastoral care, nursing, daycare and volunteering. The SPD says it will stand up against hostility toward Islam.

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 flat-rate grants for district and city sports federations and sport-specific associations are also to rise. The state sports federation, the Olympic training center, performance centers, sports boarding schools and the state sports school in Osterburg are to get reliable funding. A swimming hall for elite sports in Magdeburg and a "House of Sports" in Halle are planned. Municipalities are to get help with new construction, accessibility, energy efficiency and digitalization. A state action plan for inclusive sports is to be drawn up, and inclusion counseling in sports is to become permanent. Elite sports are to stay free of doping.

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.

The state is to draw up a guideline for funding e-sports. It would include preventing gaming addiction and teaching media literacy in youth work. In the Medien-Staatsvertrag (interstate media treaty), coverage of e-sports is to be treated like coverage of other sports. The focus is on offerings in rural areas, inclusive and accessible formats, and qualified supervision.