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Program for the 2022 Saarland state election
The AfD wants to keep using Saarland's forests for forestry and adapt them to changing climate conditions. Wood infested by bark beetles should be removed quickly and damaged areas replanted with mixed stands.
The AfD wants to keep using the forest for wood. The forest should not become a wilderness. Damaged wood should be taken out quickly. New trees should grow on bare areas. Different kinds of trees should be mixed.
The AfD wants to keep existing hunting law largely unchanged and remove no further species from it. The wolf should be added to hunting law so that its population can be regulated.
The AfD wants to keep hunting law as it is. The wolf should be added to hunting law. Hunters could then limit the number of wolves. Wolf packs should get certain areas. In part of the forest, game should be able to feed in peace.
The AfD wants to strengthen biodiversity, including through regular monitoring of species in Saarland and EU-wide protection for migratory birds. Herbicides should largely be avoided on state-owned land to protect insects.
The AfD wants to protect animals and plants better. Experts should regularly count the species in Saarland. Migratory birds should be protected across the EU. The state should use almost no weed killer on its land. This is meant to help insects.
The AfD wants a scientific review of the limits for nitrogen compounds and revised rules for how they are measured. It argues that air quality has improved considerably over recent decades, so policy should proceed with moderation. It rejects any ban on fireworks justified by pollution control.
The AfD wants experts to check the limits for nitrogen oxides. Nitrogen oxides are exhaust gases, for example from cars. The rules for measuring should also change. The AfD says the air has already become much cleaner. The AfD does not want to ban fireworks.
The AfD wants to put waste management more firmly in municipal hands because, in its view, growing monopolies in the sector have driven up costs. In the medium to long term it aims for a circular economy in which raw materials are used as long as possible. It rejects the planned amendment to the Circular Economy Act in its current form.
The AfD wants towns and cities to handle more of the trash themselves. It says a few big companies make waste disposal expensive. Raw materials should be used for as long as possible. The AfD is open to a deposit on batteries and electrical devices.
The AfD wants to reduce the production and consumption of plastics wherever that is economically and technically feasible. It rejects the planned ban on certain plastic bags and demands a long transition period for artificial turf fields filled with plastic granules. It wants to ban exports of plastic waste to countries without adequate disposal systems.
The AfD wants less plastic where that is easily possible. It is against a ban on plastic bags. It says paper bags are worse for the environment. Sports fields with artificial turf should stay in use for a long time. Plastic waste should no longer go to countries without good disposal.
The AfD rejects privatizing municipal water supply and wastewater disposal and wants to strengthen municipal water management as an essential public service. It considers a stricter nitrate limit unnecessary. Municipalities are to get help developing plans against heavy rain and drought.
The AfD wants water and wastewater to stay a job for towns and cities. Private companies should not take it over. The limit for nitrate in water should not get stricter. Nitrate is a substance that comes from fertilizer, for example. Towns should get help against heavy rain and drought.
Program for the 2022 Saarland state election
The CDU wants to do more to revive contaminated industrial brownfields so they become commercial sites or residential areas. It plans to push for a federal funding program and create an advisory body for municipalities.
The Saarland has many old industrial sites with polluted soil. The CDU wants to clean these sites and use them again. The federal government should pay for this. A new office will advise the towns.
The CDU wants to keep negotiating with the federal government to reduce the burden on residents from the noise of military training flights over Saarland. It stands by the existing time restrictions on military aircraft.
Military planes practice over Saarland. This makes a lot of noise. The CDU wants to talk to the federal government about it. There should be less noise. Flights should stay limited in the evening and on holidays.
The CDU wants an open dialogue between those who use nature and those who protect it. It seeks a fair balance among agriculture, hunting, forest ownership and conservation groups, invoking the Christian idea of creation.
Some people use nature, others want to protect it. The CDU wants both sides to talk to each other. Farmers, hunters, forest owners and conservationists should be treated fairly.
The CDU wants to build up the UNESCO Bliesgau biosphere reserve as a showcase region. Costs for the participating municipalities are to be capped so that, in the platform's view, the partnership model is not put at risk.
The Bliesgau is a protected area recognized by UNESCO. The CDU wants to strengthen this area. The towns there should not have to pay more and more. There should also be an information center.
The CDU wants to continue close-to-nature management of state forests and align it more strongly with forest stability and resilience. Forests are to be strengthened as carbon stores, and forest owners are to be paid for this through certificates.
The forest suffers from heat, drought and beetles. The CDU wants to manage the state's forest gently. Heavy machines should be used less. The forest should store a lot of CO2. Forest owners should get money for that.
The CDU wants to expand insect monitoring and support wildflower projects with funding programs. It also affirms hunting and fishing as part of nature conservation and wants to make it legally easier to hunt foxes and corvids.
Insects matter for plants and soil. The CDU wants to protect them better. Towns should plant flowers, trees and shrubs on unused land. Hunters should find it easier to hunt foxes and crows. This should help hares and partridges.
The CDU wants to protect Saarland's groundwater and keep the water supply in public hands. It rejects privatization; water is to be available to everyone at a stable, affordable price.
Drinking water in Saarland comes almost entirely from groundwater. The CDU wants to protect it. Private companies should not take over the water supply. Water should stay affordable for all. More people should drink tap water.
The CDU wants every municipality in Saarland to develop and implement a preparedness plan for floods and heavy rain. The state is to help pay for the measures where possible.
Heavy rain and floods can destroy a lot. The CDU wants every town to have a plan against them. The state should help with money if it can. Maps should show where the danger is high.
The CDU wants to define poor animal keeping in regulatory law so that it can be penalized. It also aims, together with counties and municipalities, for mandatory tagging and neutering of cats, and wants to temporarily waive the dog tax for people who adopt a dog from a shelter.
The CDU wants to protect animals better. Keeping animals badly should be punishable. Cats that live or roam outside should be tagged and neutered. People who take a dog from a shelter should pay no dog tax for two years.
Program for the 2022 Saarland state election
The SPD wants to punish the illegal dumping of waste in nature more severely. It points to rising costs for removing trash from state-owned forests.
Some people dump their trash in the forest. The SPD wants tougher penalties for this. Cleaning up costs more and more money. Everyone pays for it.
The SPD wants to safeguard drinking water quality with a water master plan. All rivers and lakes in the state are to be brought into good condition, with the state providing the money.
The SPD wants to protect drinking water. There will be a big plan for this. All rivers and lakes should become clean. The state will provide the money needed.
The SPD wants to cut the use of new land in Saarland in half within ten years and reach the federal goal of net-zero land consumption before 2050. Sealed surfaces are to be opened up again, and in rural areas building within existing towns is to take priority.
A lot of land in Saarland gets built on. The SPD wants to cut that in half in ten years. Paved areas should be opened up again. Building should mainly happen inside towns. Cities should get more green spaces.
The SPD wants to update the forest master plan and put ecological concerns ahead of commercial returns. Old beech trees are, where possible, no longer to be felled, and the wilderness forest near Saarbrücken is to double to 2,000 hectares.
The SPD wants to protect the forest better. The health of the forest matters more to it than profit. Old beech trees should be left standing where possible. The wild forest near Saarbrücken will double in size.
The SPD wants to develop the state's biodiversity strategy further and strengthen its three large protected landscapes. For the Bliesgau biosphere reserve, it will consider an expansion and supports building a biosphere visitor center.
Many kinds of animals and plants live in Saarland. The SPD wants to protect them better. The three large protected areas will be strengthened. A visitor center will be built in the Bliesgau.
The SPD wants to fund animal shelters and rescue stations better and gear livestock farming more toward animal welfare. Certain animal transports, fur farming, the fur trade and black-market trade in animals are to be stopped.
The SPD wants to protect animals better. Animal shelters will get more money. Farms should not keep too many animals per area. Fur trading and fur farming should end. Animal testing should be replaced by other methods.