Overview
- Ulrich Siegmund says one to two ministries would be scrapped through mergers and he targets cuts to state agencies, calling the Landesenergieagentur unnecessary.
- He proposes ending the current general school-attendance requirement and tightening migration policy, including in-kind benefits for asylum seekers and greater state pressure on people with migration backgrounds.
- His media plan would replace today’s public broadcasters with at most two channels limited to exclusively factual reporting with no opinion content.
- He touts shifting what he describes as funding for migration and ideology projects into free child care, free school meals and more medical school places.
- Economist Reint Gropp calls the program economically unsound and notes many measures exceed state powers, the state AfD is classified by the Verfassungsschutz as confirmed right-wing extremist, and Siegmund says details remain under party review.