"We can see that many people in this country have lost faith in politics. They do not feel represented by any of the existing political parties. We want to fill this gap in the German party system and create a party that stands for economic sanity, social justice, peace and freedom," Ali stated at the press conference.
"We are living in times of global crises. More and more conflicts and wars are breaking out, with a dangerous potential for escalation. And it is precisely in these times that the [German] Federal Republic has perhaps one of the worst governments in its history — a government that acts without a plan, is short-sighted and sometimes totally incompetent," Wagenknecht emphasized.
"We need to return to political sanity, and this applies first and foremost to our economic policy. Germany is a country that is poor in raw materials but rich in exports. A large part of our well-being depends on high industrial added value. But with the economic sanctions [against Russia] we have cut ourselves off from cheap energy resources without any viable alternatives," Wagenknecht clarified.
"It is a big mistake that this government has almost completely turned away from the important tradition of deescalation policy, to which Germany owes its reunification," Wagenknecht stated.
"Instead, it is playing the war card in more and more conflicts around the world. But these conflicts cannot be solved by military force, and this applies to Ukraine as well as to the Middle East," the politician emphasized.