Elon Musk expressed his support for the German far-right party AFD

Elon Musk expressed his support for the German far-right party AFD

December 21, 2024 – 1:35 p.m.

This is the Alternative for Germany party, which gained great popularity in the last elections. He has already won a state vote, the first in right-wing parties since Nazi Germany.

The businessman Elon Muskowner of companies such as x and teslaand now also a future official of the trump administrationdemonstrated his support for the German political party Alternative for Germany (AFD). Through a message on his X account, he said that “only AFD can save” Germany.

He did it through a repost of a publication by the German activist Naomi Seibt in Xknown in the environment for its anti-climate change ideas. In it, Seibt assured that Friedrich Merz, one of the favorite politicians to be the new German Chancellor, is “horrified by the idea that Germany has to follow the examples of Musk and Milei.”

What is AFD

The AFD party grew in popularity in the last elections and promoted populist and anti-immigrant positions similar to the message of “Germany first”. But the party has also been accused of resurrect the ideology and slogans of the Nazi era.

The youth wing of the organization, the Young Alternative (JA)was designated by German authorities as a “confirmed extremist” organization. The party’s leading candidate in the eastern German state of Thuringia, Björn Höcke, He was convicted in early 2024 after violating laws against uttering Nazi slogans in public.

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But the party has growing support. The AFD became the first far-right party to win a state election in Germany since the Nazi era, although all of the country’s main political parties said they would not form a coalition, a necessary requirement to gain enough seats to form a government.

Who is the one arrested for the mass attack in Germany: an anti-Islam Saudi doctor and critic of Angela Merkel

The alleged perpetrator of the mass attack at the Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg was identified (according to social media) as Taleb Aa Saudi psychiatrist and activist critical of the Islam who defines himself as “ex-Muslim.”

The man lives in Germany since 2006, after beginning specialized medical training With 45,000 followers on AFD. According to the media Bild, in 2016 he published in a post: “The AFD and I fight the same enemy to protect Germany”.

In August, the Saudi doctor wrote: “I assure you, if Germany wants war, we will have it. “If Germany wants to kill us, we will slaughter them, die or go to jail with pride.”

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