Climate, jobs and education
The conference is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m., with federal Greens co-chair Felix Banaszak expected to speak. Delegates will consider a platform titled "Bereit für morgen! Das Saarland kann mehr," which calls for preparing Saarland for the future and argues that the state can do more.
The platform treats climate protection, good jobs and social security as compatible goals and criticizes state policy for focusing too heavily on large industry. According to the party, making climate protection affordable is central to its proposals.
The Greens want to make it easier to develop citizen energy projects and allow tenants to use solar electricity generated on their apartment buildings' roofs. The platform also calls for reliable bus and rail services and would tie business subsidies to criteria linked to the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Education proposals include limiting primary school classes to 20 children, creating a quality institute modeled on Hamburg's, and providing school books and media through a free lending system.
Lahoda leads the bid to return
Anne Lahoda will lead the Greens into the election. The 47-year-old trained auditor chairs the party's Saarbrücken district organization and won 96.6 percent of the vote in the lead-candidate selection at a party meeting in March 2026.
The party is presenting Lahoda and Volker Morbe as its leading duo. Morbe received 88.5 percent of the vote for second place on the state candidate list. By the end of March 2026, the Greens had finalized both their district and state lists, becoming the first party in Saarland to do so.
The Greens first won seats in the Saarland parliament, known as the Landtag, in 1994. Recurring internal disputes later marked the state party. It fell below the 5 percent electoral threshold in March 2017, then narrowly missed a return in 2022: its exact vote share was 4.99502 percent, leaving it 23 votes short.
Polling and the rival campaigns
The Saarlandtrend poll commissioned and published by broadcaster Saarländischer Rundfunk puts the Greens at 9 percent, suggesting better prospects than at the previous election. The SPD, which governs alone, stands at 33 percent. The AfD is second at 21 percent, narrowly ahead of the CDU at 20 percent.
The opposition CDU, led by candidate Stephan Toscani, presented its proposed governing program on November 5. It calls for Saarland to become a model region and a testing ground for modernizing government and speeding up procedures. The party is due to vote on the program at its November 21 state conference.
The governing SPD is centering its campaign on Minister-President Anke Rehlinger as its lead candidate and plans a late campaign launch.
