In front of the ambassadors, this Monday, at the Élysée, Emmanuel Macron rolls out the long list of evils that the world is going through. “Ten years ago, if we had been told that the owner of one of the largest social networks in the world would support a new reactionary international movement and intervene directly in elections, including in Germany, who would have imagined it? » The French president does not quote Elon Musk, but the diplomats sitting in front of him understood.
The little music has been going on for weeks. On , special advisor to the Jacques Delors Institute.
For two months, Germany has been paying the price for the Tesla boss's inflammatory tweets. As the legislative elections approach, the acolyte of future President Donald Trump, who is expected to join his administration on January 20, calls Chancellor Olaf Scholz an “incompetent imbecile” and shows strong support for the AfD.
VideoEmmanuel Macron addresses Elon Musk and his “intervention” in the electoral system
The German far-right party is credited with 20% in the polls, ten points behind the conservative opposition. “Only the AfD can save Germany,” he published on X just before Christmas. Elon Musk will even participate, this Thursday, in a conversation on X with Alice Weidel, the leader of the party.
During the same period, the 53-year-old entrepreneur called the judges behind the cancellation of the presidential election in Romania “dictators”, criticized the European Commission and described the functioning of the EU as “anti -democratic”. He also displays his proximity to the right-wing head of the Italian government, Giorgia Meloni, and the ultra-conservative Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, whom he met in December in Florida at Donald Trump's home.
On the other hand, the reactions are timid: the German Chancellor, publicly insulted, condemned his “erratic statements” on Saturday. This Monday, the Norwegian Prime Minister, Jonas Gahr Støre, considered it “concerning” that a man “with considerable access to social networks” was getting involved “in the internal affairs of other countries”. “No one dares to get too wet and immediately alienate the future Trump administration. Europe suffers the blows without reacting,” observes Sébastien Maillard.
Where will the richest man in the world stop? For the advisor of the Jacques Delors Institute, the boss of X uses “his economic power for his political ideology”. It would therefore be “surprising if he stopped there. We see that he is not afraid of anything. »
