Left Party co-chair Ines Schwerdtner corrects her statement on the retirement age.

After recently declaring a moderate increase in the retirement age debatable under certain conditions on ZDF, she now told the "Rheinische Post": "That was a mistake very early in the morning in a half-sentence. To put it clearly: All attacks on the retirement age are completely wrong."

Last week, in the ZDF program "Morgenmagazin," the party leader, responding to the suggestion that experts would support this, coupled with rising life expectancy, said: "If it's a moderate increase, then we can talk about it." However, she addressed the "myth" that people don't work enough in Germany. This is simply not true. Germany doesn't need a retirement age of 70.

In the newspaper interview, Schwerdtner clarified: "Nothing has changed in our program. The retirement age of 67 must be maintained." All debates about retirement at 70 are absurd and represent a de facto pension cut.