The legislature in Berlin lasts five years, but the CDU does not want to allow itself that much time. If, after the House of Representatives election, participation in the government succeeds, the party cannot go fast enough to redesign the city according to its ideas after five years in the opposition. At least that is what the capital union tries to suggest with a 100-day program that top candidate Kai Wegner presented on Friday.
“Berlin urgently needs a fresh start,” said Wegner. “In many areas of the city it is already five past twelve, here we urgently need to flip the switch.” The CDU sees an urgent need for action in a number of subject areas. Whether education, housing or security, the Union wants changes everywhere.
For example, the CDU is calling for preschool to be made compulsory for children. This is the only thing that promises “optimal educational opportunities,” said Wegner. In addition, the prerequisites should be created immediately to return to the civil service of teachers in the capital. Only in this way would Berlin become competitive again in the competition with the other federal states for the urgently needed pedagogues.
Housing is also at the top of the agenda. “We will immediately form an alliance for affordable building and living with all partners.” Together, they will ensure that rents in the city remain affordable and that additional affordable housing is created.
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In addition, families in particular should be helped to buy their own home. This should succeed through the state’s own subsidy, loan and guarantee programs as well as through a new model of the “Berlin hire purchase” that the party would like to introduce.
For more security, the CDU wants to introduce video surveillance in all crime-prone locations. A new police law is to regulate the use of tasers, the monitoring of cell phones and computers and the final rescue shot.
The party expects more cleanliness from 1000 new rubbish bins and 100 “rubbish detectives”. Those who continue to pollute streets and parks will be punished “consistently with high fines,” according to the plan. A “Mittelstands- und Verabegesetz” should make it easier for small and medium-sized companies and craft businesses to be taken into account when awarding contracts. “We have pragmatic solutions that really work, we make concrete policies that make our city a little better every day,” said Wegner. If you want to end red-red-green, you have to choose the Union.
But not only the plan to plant 10,000 new city trees by the end of 2022 indicates that the CDU will not be able to do everything in 100 days either. In the end one would be happy to govern the entire legislature, yes at all.
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