What do the parties in Lower Saxony say on other topics?

The AfD wants to promote recreational sports outside of clubs as well, for example with freely accessible sports facilities in parks. Health insurance contributions would depend on physical activity: lower with proof of exercise, higher for risky extreme sports.

The AfD wants more people to do sports. Parks should have exercise equipment and fitness trails again. People who prove they do sports should pay less for health insurance. People who do dangerous extreme sports should pay more.

The CDU wants to press at the federal level for a Gesellschaftsjahr (year of community service) covering all young people. The proposal appears in the platform alongside the strengthening of volunteer services.

The CDU wants a year of service for all young people. In that year, young people work for the community. The federal government decides on this. The CDU in Lower Saxony wants to push for it there.

The CDU wants to give consumer advice centers more funding and open more of them across the state. It also wants less food to be thrown away, including through public education and a different approach to best-before dates.

The CDU wants more advice centers for consumers. These centers should get more money. People should also throw away less food. A campaign and school lessons are meant to help with that.

The CDU wants to make state sports funding more reliable and raise it regularly. The program for renovating sports facilities is to be extended and enlarged, especially for pools, gyms and fields. Every child should be able to learn to swim.

The CDU wants to give sports more money that clubs can count on. The money should go up regularly. Pools, gyms and sports fields should be renewed. Every child should be able to learn to swim.

The CDU wants to expand sports for children and young people, for people with disabilities and at the competitive level. Schools and clubs are to work together more closely, with more sports in all-day schooling. Support for young talent and elite sports schools is to grow.

The CDU wants more sports for children and young people. Schools and clubs should work together. People with disabilities should find it easier to do sports. Young talents should get more support.

The CDU wants to open organized sports to esports. Sports clubs are to be able to offer computer and console games related to sports with legal certainty and without risking their nonprofit status. A funding program is to support such offers financially.

Esports means people compete in computer games. The CDU wants sports clubs to be allowed to offer this. Clubs should not lose tax benefits because of it. There should also be money for esports.

The CDU affirms the separation of church and state while wanting to continue the existing cooperation. It wants to keep the legal protection of Sundays and public holidays. It intends to further develop dialogue with all religious communities.

Church and state are separate. The CDU wants both to keep working together anyway. Sundays and holidays should stay protected. The CDU wants to keep talking with all religions.

The Greens want to strengthen rural areas with meeting places, village shops, village offices and co-working spaces. The party rejects large retail developments outside town centers and outlet centers along highways, arguing that they drain purchasing power and generate traffic.

The Greens want to strengthen life in villages. They want to fund village shops and shared offices. There should be meeting places with culture and health services. The Greens do not want big shopping centers outside of towns.

The Greens want to expand Lower Saxony's consumer advice center with more digital and more in-person advice. It should also be put in a position to bring collective actions and model declaratory lawsuits on behalf of consumers.

The consumer advice center helps people with shopping and contracts. The Greens want more advice online and in person. The center should also be able to go to court for many people at once.

The Greens want to fund sports across the state and give everyone access. Municipalities are to get more help maintaining sports facilities and pools and making them accessible, and clubs are to receive paid staff support. Elite sports and newer forms such as esports are also to be strengthened.

Everyone should be able to do sports. Every child should be able to learn to swim. Towns and cities should get help for sports fields and pools. Sports clubs should get paid helpers. Top athletes should get more support too.

The SPD wants to expand the Lower Saxony consumer advice center and raise its funding to the national average per resident. Consumer and nutrition education is to start with children, and food waste is to be prevented through new rules and projects.

The consumer advice center helps people with shopping and contracts. The SPD wants to give it more money. Advice should be available all over the state. Children should learn more about food in daycare and school. Less food should end up in the trash.

The SPD wants equal living conditions in urban and rural areas and intends to put rural funding on a permanent footing. Small and mid-sized towns that serve their surrounding areas are to get better access to funding.

The SPD wants to strengthen life in the countryside. Village shops and doctors' offices should get steady funding. Every place should have a meeting spot. Small and mid-sized towns should also get more help.

The SPD wants to secure state funding for organized sports in the long term through an inflation adjustment and continue the renovation program for sports facilities. Renovating swimming pools remains a focus. Inclusion, integration and diversity in sports are to receive more support.

The SPD wants to keep giving money to sports clubs. The money should rise with prices. Gyms and swimming pools should be repaired. All children should be able to learn to swim. People with disabilities should find it easier to do sports.