The document summarizes the political positions of DIE LINKE party for the upcoming local elections in Munich on March 16th, 2014. It advocates that DIE LINKE supports expanding voting rights to all foreigners living in Germany, increasing taxes on the wealthy to improve social services and fight poverty, introducing rent controls and expanding social housing to address rising housing costs, keeping the health system public instead of privatized, and prioritizing accessibility in public transportation over large tunnel projects. It encourages foreigners living in Munich for at least 3 months who are eligible to vote to support DIE LINKE candidates.

1. 100 % sozial auch kommunal –
für ein solidarisches München
Dear Munich Citizens coming from abroad,
The EUROPEAN LEFT in MUNICH advises you to vote for the candidates of the political party
DIE LINKE at the next local council elections on the 16th of March 2014.
Why is it important to vote again for DIE LINKE
in the Munich local council?
Who can vote?
If you come from another EU country, are at least 18 years old and registered in Munich since
minimum 3 months, then you can vote at these local elections. Many other foreigners coming
from outside the EU cannot vote.
What says DIE LINKE on that point?
DIE LINKE commits at the regional and national levels, to allow all foreigners, whom are living
in Germany, to have the right to vote. We also want to facilitate double-nationalities, as many
EU Citizens already have. DIE LINKE wants to radically improve the welcoming conditions for
asylum seekers.
Fight poverty, fairly redistribute wealth!
DIE LINKE wants that rich people pay more taxes. People with low revenues shall have a
better basic social security. Administrations shall stop to bother unemployed people needing
financial support, with unnecessary red tape. An increase of pensions is urgently needed.
It is unacceptable that in our rich city Munich, more and more people fall into poverty, that
schools and cultural institutions remain under-financed and cannot be well maintained, and
finally that many cannot live from their jobs.
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2. Mensch vor Profit
Affordable housing is a fundamental right, and not a luxuary!
Since many years apartments and housing prices are exploding: In 2013 for a new apartment,
16 €/m2 we on average to be paid for a rent. In 2005, it was only of 12 €. To buy you had
to pay 3.500 €/m2 in 2005), and 4.750 €/m2 in 2013. The number of homeless people in
Munich did increase constantly, and there are less social housings.
Large private Investors do make the law for their own profits on that housing market. DIE
LINKE wants a new democratic regulation of the housing market. At the national level, DIE
LINKE wants to introduce maximum prices, which shall also in Munich not be overlapped.
Health is not a merchandise! Human dignity before profits!
For a performing public health system, independent from people‘s revenues!
The society is becoming older, challenging our health system at the local level. Poverty
(especially child-poverty), care, prevention and fight against drugs were not paid enough
attention. DIE LINKE wants the health system to stay in the public sector, against privatisation!
To have no job, or one with very low pay, are the two first main reasons generating poverty
in our rich City of Munich. Since many years, particular social groups are suffering from this
situation: Seniors, disabled people, people educating alone their children (mostly women),
people without diplomas or with low level ones. We need a committed local work and economic
policy, instead of only an administration of the unemployed in the Job-centers.
Mobility in- and outside Munich is possible without a second large tunnel:
Walking, cycling and travelling for free in the public transport system will
spare CO2 !
DIE LINKE thinks first of supporting frail people in the public transport system, then the
ones who cycle and walk, and those whom are annoyed by the noise of the street. Instead
of a 3 Billion € new S-Bahn tunnel in the City Center, we want the revamping of the southern
railway network.
You can inform yourself on our candidates to the City Council and on our programme on the
following website: www.dielinke-muc.de You can also contact us at: info@dielinke-muc.de
V.i.S.d.P.: Dr. Clemens Pingel c/o DIE LINKE.München, Schwanthalerstr. 139, 80339 München
Work and economy: Human before profits!