Vote for the federal election: Musk: Only the AfD can save Germany

Two months before the federal election, US billionaire Elon Musk campaigned for the AfD. “Only the AfD can save Germany,” he wrote in his online service X. The right-wing party’s candidate for chancellor, Alice Weidel, reacted happily: “Yes! You’re absolutely right, Elon Musk!” Musk is a close advisor to US President-elect Donald Trump; He has hardly left the Republican’s side for weeks.

Ahead of the planned federal election on February 23rd, the AfD is in second place in surveys with around 19 percent, behind the Union with more than 30 percent. All parties represented in the Bundestag rule out cooperation with the far-right party.

Already in the summer, the American tech billionaire, who as Tesla boss is one of the largest employers in Brandenburg, praised the AfD after the European elections. The party is described as right-wing extremist, “but the political positions of the AfD that I have read about do not sound extremist,” he wrote on X at the beginning of June.

Musk has been interfering in British politics for months. He has assured the right-wing populist British party Reform UK of his support and is talking to Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage about a donation.