Overview
- The AfD Bundestag group, which approved the program Sunday in Cottbus, called for fast cuts to the energy tax on fuel and for scrapping the CO2 charge on gasoline and diesel.
- The plan proposes raising the basic tax‑free allowance to €15,000, creating a €12,000 child allowance, and lowering corporate taxes to what it calls competitive levels.
- Leaders said they would pay for near‑term relief by cutting what they label wasteful spending, yet they offered no detailed offsets for the expected drop in revenue.
- The energy plank seeks a return to nuclear power and continued coal and gas use, and it calls to reactivate the Nord Stream pipeline even though the lines were bombed in 2022 and no repair plans are public under current sanctions.
- The faction kept the retirement age at 67 and still aims for a 70% pension level, which Alice Weidel called hard to reach, and it sidestepped fights over foreign policy, conscription, and nepotism while courting CDU support with the claim that a majority exists.