What do the parties in Thuringia say on other topics?

The AfD wants to raise the state lump sum for free use of public sports facilities from five to 20 million euros a year. Sports funding should become a mandatory municipal task, and the state should invest considerably more in sports facilities.

The AfD wants more money for sports facilities. The state should pay 20 million euros a year instead of 5 million. Towns should be required to support sports. Run-down sports facilities and outdoor pools should be kept.

The AfD wants to give clubs and associations higher subsidies and adequately equip the Sportgymnasien (sports high schools) in Oberhof, Erfurt and Jena. This is meant to support young talent and ensure coaching by full-time trainers.

The AfD wants to support young sports talent. Clubs should get more money. The three sports high schools in Thuringia should be well equipped. Winter sports in Oberhof should also get support.

The AfD rejects tying funding for sports clubs to political requirements. In its view, clubs and associations should represent their members' sporting interests and not be co-opted politically.

Sports clubs get money from the state. The AfD says this money must not depend on politics. Clubs should be about sports. Politics should play no part there.

The AfD regards allotment gardens as part of the culture and wants to revive sites in rural areas and to keep, expand and create sites in large cities. Owners and tenants would get more freedom, while the gardens remain affordable for everyone.

The AfD wants to protect allotment gardens. These are small garden plots that people rent. Old sites in the countryside should be used again. Big cities should get new gardens. The gardens should stay cheap.

The BSW wants to improve conditions for volunteer work. Board members should be exempt from liability or have limited liability, and qualification requirements should stay reasonable. The Thuringian Volunteering Foundation should be strengthened.

Many people volunteer in clubs. The BSW wants to make this easier. Board members should face less legal risk. Thuringia's volunteer foundation should get more support.

The BSW wants reliable funding for grassroots and elite sports in Thuringia. Funding from lottery revenue should be adjusted regularly for inflation, and supporting sports should become a mandatory duty of local governments.

The BSW wants more support for sports in Thuringia. Money from the lottery should rise with prices. Towns should be required to support sports. Sports fields and gyms should get more money for building and repairs. Coaches in top-level sports should be paid better.

The CDU promises that key essential services will be reachable within 20 minutes anywhere in Thuringia. To that end, village shops would be supported, state agencies located in rural areas and village churches renovated. Urban and rural areas should offer equal opportunities.

Important services should be reachable in 20 minutes. This includes buying groceries, for example. The CDU wants to support village shops. More state offices should move to rural areas. Village churches should be repaired.

The CDU wants to keep supporting the work of the churches and their welfare organizations and to protect Sundays and the major Christian holidays. Church monuments are to be preserved and the village church program relaunched. The platform justifies this with the state's Christian heritage.

The CDU wants to keep supporting the churches. Sundays and Christian holidays should stay protected. Old churches should be preserved. A program for village churches should start again.

The CDU wants to relieve volunteers and clubs of bureaucracy and make this binding in a volunteering law, which it says would be the first in Germany. Funding applications and proof-of-use reports are to be simplified, as are data protection rules for clubs.

The CDU wants to reduce paperwork for clubs and volunteers. Applying for funding should become easier. Data protection rules should become easier for clubs too. All of this should be written into a volunteering law.

The CDU wants to create and fund a state program called "Ehrenamt" (volunteering) to support clubs, initiatives and volunteers. It also plans higher allocations to the volunteering foundation, the state sports federation and welfare associations, state coverage of GEMA music licensing fees, and tax incentives at the federal level.

The CDU wants to start a state program for volunteering. Clubs and volunteers should get more money and help. The state should pay GEMA fees at events with free entry. GEMA fees are fees for playing music in public. Volunteers should also pay less tax.

The CDU wants to put more money into building and renovating sports facilities and launch a special program called "Sportland Thüringen." Together with the state sports federation, sports funding is to be reassessed in a future plan; school sports, coaches and youth development are to be strengthened.

The CDU wants to spend more money on sports fields and gyms. A special program should keep sports facilities in good shape. Sports at school should be strengthened. Coaches should be paid better step by step.

The CDU wants every child in Thuringia to learn to swim. It plans a swimming instruction campaign, a 50-euro voucher for all first graders and a state program to preserve indoor and outdoor pools.

Every child in Thuringia should learn to swim. All first graders should get a voucher worth 50 euros. They can use it for a swimming course. The CDU also wants to keep swimming pools open.

The Left wants to support both recreational and elite sports and clear the repair backlog at sports facilities through a larger construction program. A future plan for sports is to be drawn up with clubs and associations. Sports offerings should become more inclusive, including for people with disabilities, older people and LGBTIQ* people.

The Left wants to strengthen sports in Thuringia. Old gyms and sports fields should be repaired. Clubs should be able to use sports facilities for free. People with disabilities and older people should also be able to do sports. Coaches should be paid better.

The Left wants to keep supporting basic supply in the countryside, for example through village shops and stores open around the clock. It also plans a new state development program Thuringia 2040 and stronger use of funding programs for rural development.

The Left wants to improve life in the countryside. Village shops should get money from the state. Shops that are open day and night should get help too. A new plan should show how Thuringia develops until 2040.

The SPD wants to give the Verbraucherzentrale Thüringen (consumer advice center) more money so it can offer more counseling. At the federal level, it wants to push for collective rights of action for consumer organizations, because in its view the market fails to regulate itself in many areas.

The consumer advice center helps people who have problems with companies. The SPD wants to give it more money. Then it can advise more people, also in easy language and in other languages. Consumer groups should also be allowed to sue unfair companies.

The SPD wants to set up specialized teams operating across regions to monitor food and consumer goods. It argues that small-scale municipal structures cannot provide the necessary specialization for every task.

Public offices check food and other goods. There are more and more new products. The SPD wants special inspection teams for several regions. They have expert knowledge that single counties lack.

The SPD wants to draw up a long-term plan for sports in Thuringia together with organized sports bodies. Funding for grassroots sports from state lottery surpluses is to stay and, where possible, be supplemented by other sources. Allowances for volunteers and coaches are to rise regularly.

The SPD wants to make a plan for sports in Thuringia. Sports clubs will help write it. Today, sports get a lot of money from the lottery. The SPD will check if more money can come from other sources. Helpers in sports will get more money on a regular basis.

The SPD wants to set up a special investment program for sports facilities worth 20 million euros a year. More money is also to go to school gyms, and funding for municipal swimming pools is to be secured so that all students can get swimming lessons.

The SPD wants to give more money for sports facilities. There will be 20 million euros every year. School gyms will get 10 million euros. Swimming pools should stay open. Then all children can learn to swim.

The SPD wants to support elite athletes with state scholarships and stronger sports high schools. Professional and top-level clubs are to receive an annual funding budget. Disability sports are to be supported on an equal footing.

The SPD wants to support top athletes. They should get money from the state. Professional clubs should also get money every year. Sports for people with disabilities should be just as important. The SPD is against doping.