Elon Musk is once again making headlines and fueling controversy after expressing his support for the neo-Nazis of the AfD in Germany. The tycoon recruited by Donald Trump as minister of public spending reduction, with a post on X, takes a position in favor of Alternative fur Deutschland: “Only the AfD can save Germany,” Musk writes, relaunching a video of Naomi Seibt, a member of the far-right party.
«He is horrified at the idea that Germany should follow the example of Elon Musk and Javier Milei – says Seibt -. He firmly rejects a pro-freedom approach and rejects any discussions with the AfD.” The positions expressed by Seibt are totally shared by Musk. Alice Weidel, co-president of Afd, responds to Musk. «Dear Elon Musk, thank you very much for your post. Afd is really the only alternative for our country; our last option. I wish you and President Donald Trump all the best in your next term! And also, I wish you and all the American people a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year,” he says.
The reactions in Berlin to the tycoon's outburst were outraged. “It is threatening, irritating and unacceptable that a key figure in the future US government is interfering in the German election campaign,” Dennis Radtke, an MEP from the centre-right CDU, told the Handelsblatt newspaper. Musk is a “threat to democracy in the Western world”, he added, accusing him of turning X into a “slingshot of disinformation”.
Germany will go to the polls in early elections on February 23, after Scholz's three-party traffic light coalition government collapsed last month. Scholz hopes to win a second term, but polls show the main centre-right opposition bloc in the lead.
The AfD is rising in the polls, but its candidate, Alice Weidel, appears to have no realistic chance of becoming chancellor because the other parties refuse to collaborate with the most right-wing party in the Western world.
