Federal election 2021: Candidate Christian Kaul (Free Voters) in conversation

District - There is a general election on September 26th.

The yellow sheet introduces all candidates from the constituency.

Today: Christian Kaul (Free Voters).

We gave him seven topics.

Here are his answers:

The highways and federal highways in the constituency are important transit routes.

Nevertheless, residents need ...

... more binding solutions in the area of ​​noise protection.

Residents as well as the environmental and nature conservation association must be involved at all times.

It is also important that all measures taken are implemented unbureaucratically.

I imagine an overarching mobility concept, because local traffic concepts such as the expansion of the A8 and bypasses also require a supraregional concept.

The traffic turnaround is currently a big issue in the Oberland and nationwide.

In the areas of public transport and cycling, there is an urgent need ...

... the federal government will release noticeably more money.

In order to give commuters, schoolchildren or day trippers, among other things, the opportunity to do without the car, investments must be made in the cycles of public transport and this must be adapted to local needs.

This then includes the purchase of small buses and the construction of cycle paths.

Climate protection is also currently playing a major role, but it often starts with the small things.

In the Oberland as well as at the federal level ...

... we are working at full speed on the implementation or continuation of the following points: increased use of renewable energies and combined heat and power plants, because in 2020 renewable energies only covered around 45 percent of electricity consumption;

Improvements in energy efficiency, for example in buildings, industry and household appliances;

Reducing carbon dioxide emissions from new cars;

Waste gas treatment measures in the processing industry and measures to reduce emissions from landfill sites.

The number of day trippers in the Oberland has risen again with the corona pandemic.

In the interests of the locals and guests, it is essential that ...

... the visitors and the excursion traffic are directed and bundled.

Here I am thinking above all of the establishment of nature reserves and commuter buses in the excursion areas.

Real estate prices and rents have also skyrocketed again due to Corona.

The average citizen can only afford living space in the Oberland in the future if ...

... social housing is being promoted noticeably more.

One should also urgently consider lifting the rent brake and instead introducing a square meter price brake in order to counteract speculation by property developers.

I would also advocate a one-off and non-repayable subsidy from the state for the purchase of residential property by young people.

There are several district clinics in the constituency.

In order to make municipal hospitals future-proof, it takes ...

... a major trend reversal in federal health policy and its remuneration system.

Furthermore, more individual room for maneuver must be given back to the local organizations.

The corona pandemic has also highlighted the nursing emergency in Germany more clearly.

The situation will only improve if ...

... real and tangible improvements are made for caregivers.

The appreciation must finally be reflected in the wallet and in reasonable working hours.

We urgently need more caregivers, because clapping does not make anyone healthy.

I also see home care by relatives as a real relief.

Here, too, the federal government must finally appreciate this activity better, for example through higher subsidies and / or tax relief.

You can find out more about candidate Christian Kaul from the Free Voters here.

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