What do the parties in Hesse say on other topics?

The CDU wants to give more support to sports clubs and sports facilities and provide 12 euros per club member per year from state funds. The funding programs for building sports facilities are to be widened and simplified.

The CDU wants to give sports clubs more money. The state will pay 12 euros a year for each member. Sports halls and fields will be built and renewed. Funding should become simpler. Clubs will keep getting help with high energy costs.

With a program called "KidS," the CDU wants to pay every child in Hesse two years of membership fees in a sports club. In addition, athletic talent is to be spotted and supported as early as school.

The CDU wants to bring more children into sports clubs. The state will pay the club fee for two years. Each child can choose the club. Experts will look for talent in schools. The children then get offers from clubs that suit them.

The CDU wants to bring more major international sporting events to Hesse and to back Germany's Olympic bid. Olympic and Paralympic elite sports are to receive more support.

The CDU wants big sports events to come to Hesse. It backs Germany's bid for the Olympic Games. Top athletes should get more help. A large sports campus is planned in Frankfurt.

The CDU wants to support organized e-sports and its clubs. It also wants to build up the Rhine-Main region as a location for game development and major tournaments.

The CDU wants to support e-sports. E-sports means people compete in video games. Sports clubs should be able to offer e-sports without tax problems. Hesse should become an important place for video games.

The CDU wants to strengthen staffing for municipal food inspections so that far more of the required checks take place. Consumer advice is to receive at least the same funding, and the hardship fund against energy cutoffs will stay in place.

The CDU wants food to be checked better. The authorities should have enough staff for this. Advice services for consumers keep getting money. People who cannot pay for power or heat should get help.

The CDU wants to expand, simplify and better coordinate funding for rural areas. The Dorfentwicklung (village development) program is to stay well funded, a new "UnserWIRHaus" program is to be created, and vacant buildings in village centers are to be turned into housing.

The CDU wants to do more for villages and rural areas. The village development program should keep a lot of money. Village community halls should also be able to host shops or doctors. Empty houses in village centers should become homes again. The CDU asks the federal government for more money for rural areas.

The CDU commits to protecting Christian holidays and traditions and wants to keep enforcing Good Friday quiet, including the dancing ban. For up to four shopping Sundays, it wants workable and legally sound rules.

The CDU wants to protect Christian holidays. Good Friday should stay a quiet day. The ban on dancing that day should stay. The authorities should check that people follow it. Stores should be allowed to open on up to four Sundays a year.

The CDU wants to keep the existing relationship between state and churches and develop the partnership with churches and religious communities on a cross-party basis. Village churches are to be preserved and denominational religious education offered statewide.

The CDU wants the state and the churches to keep working together well. Small village churches should be preserved. Schools everywhere should offer religion classes. Students who do not take part have ethics class.

The FDP rejects blanket bans such as the dancing ban on Good Friday. It wants to talk with the churches and society about how public holidays should be arranged in the future and find a lasting solution.

On some holidays dancing is banned, for example on Good Friday. The FDP is against such general bans. It wants to talk with the churches and society about this. The goal is a solution that lasts.

The FDP wants people to decide for themselves what happens to their ashes after cremation. Urns could be kept at home during the year of mourning, and municipalities could designate places for scattering ashes.

Everyone should decide what happens to their own ashes. Relatives should be allowed to keep the urn at home for one year. Towns should be able to set places for scattering ashes. Most urns should still rest in a fixed place.

The FDP wants to support sports clubs with funding programs and relieve volunteers through higher tax-free allowances and less red tape. The program describes clubs as a foundation for community life and local integration.

Sports clubs should get more help from the state. People who volunteer in clubs should keep more money tax-free. There should be less paperwork. Young volunteers should get some benefits.

The FDP wants no swimming pools to be closed and every child to be able to swim by the end of elementary school. It sees the state as responsible, arguing that swimming is a basic skill vital for survival.

Swimming pools should not close. Every child should be able to swim after elementary school. The state should make sure of this. There should still be money for pools.

The FDP relies on informed, responsible consumers and wants transparent markets, stronger consumer rights especially online, and more consumer education. The Verbraucherzentrale Hessen (consumer advice center) is to be adequately funded, and economic education is to grow in all types of schools.

The FDP wants consumers to make good choices themselves. For that they need knowledge about money and the economy. Schools should teach more of this. The consumer advice center should get enough money.

The FDP wants to set up a fund that helps municipalities buy and sell vacant properties. Rural towns should also cooperate more closely and actively attract doctors, female founders and women in the liberal professions.

In some villages many houses stand empty. The FDP wants to create a pot of money for this. Towns can use it to buy and sell empty land. Towns should also work together more. Women with their own business or practice should get help.

The Greens want to give the Hesse consumer advice center more funding and continue the state's nutrition strategy. Taking discarded food from bins, known as dumpster diving, should no longer be a crime.

The consumer advice center in Hesse should get more money. People in rural areas should get advice too. Some people take thrown-away food from store bins. The Greens want this to no longer be punished.

The Greens want equal living conditions in rural areas and plan to continue the state's rural action plan permanently. Plans include faster broadband and mobile coverage, local shops, cultural funding, and livelier village centers.

Half of the people in Hesse live in the countryside. Life there should be as good as in cities. The Greens want fast internet and shops nearby. Village centers and country inns should be kept alive.

The Greens want to keep supporting sports clubs and volunteers in sports and ease their burden. Every child should be able to do sports close to home and learn to swim. To that end, swimming pools are to be preserved and sports facilities renovated in line with climate goals.

The Greens want to support sports clubs. Every child should be able to do sports nearby. Every child should be able to learn to swim. Swimming pools should be kept open. Children in sports should be protected from violence.

The SPD wants the state to make volunteering more attractive and to commit significantly more to it. The state is also to provide reliable support for both grassroots and elite sports, including swimming lessons.

Many clubs cannot find enough volunteers. The SPD wants to make volunteering more attractive. The state should also support sports in a lasting way. There should be more chances for swimming lessons.

The SPD wants to double funding for consumer advice because, in its view, consumer behavior is changing ever faster. Food inspection would be better resourced. Initiatives that help avoid waste would receive funding.

The SPD wants to give twice as much money for consumer advice. There, people get advice on shopping, housing costs and debt. Food should be checked better. There should be less waste. Repair cafes and swap markets would get funding for that.