Joachim Gauck calls on the CDU to work with the left in an emergency. Former head of the Stasi records authority continued that he was not suspected of being a lover of the left.

Gauck called the new Sahra Wagenknecht alliance a party of left-wing populists with a pro-Putin policy. Unlike Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD), Gauck says he does not see any German involvement in the war in the delivery of Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine.