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Political leaders have avoided the election of Germany. But on its social media platform X, Mr. Musk launches to the party as a dominant current.
By Jim Tankersley
Berlin reports
Elon Musk is not just dabbling in German politics. He is attempting to break a political blockade that has kept the nation’s most prominent far-right party out of government even as it has gained strength with voters.
On Thursday, Mr. Musk organized a live interview in English with Alice Weidel. She is the Candrewal candidate for that extreme right party, the alternative for Germany, known as the AFD, in the country’s rapid elections scheduled for February 23. Even before the event, which was held in X, the social networks platform that Mr. Mr. Musk possesses, had given alarms and threats of legal consequences between Germany’s political class.
That was, in large part, because Mr. Musk is offering the AfD a level of publicity and legitimacy that it has long been denied in German public life.
He made that push explicit in the interview, repeating his warning to Germans that only the AfD can bring about the change their country needs.
Voting for AFD “is only the practical decision,” Musk said, approximately one hour in a verbal exchange that had largely remained in the policy of power and immigration. “And I think Alice Weidel is a very moderate person, and I hope other people can say about this verbal exchange. Nothing scandalous is proposed, but not an unusual sense. ” “
The AFD has reached a momentary position in German national surveys, with about a fifth of the electorate. Decade of the Middle East and Ukraine.
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