Election campaign: Musk and Weidel meet for online discussion

After tech billionaire Elon Musk’s controversial election campaign calls for the AfD, the entrepreneur is meeting online with AfD leader Alice Weidel this Thursday. On Musk’s Platform

Anyone can listen in on the conversation

The conversation, conducted in English, can be heard live by anyone on X. According to the information, it is a purely audio conversation without video. According to their spokesman, Musk and Weidel have not yet met in person. The AfD leader has been promoting the conversation with a countdown on X for days.

Musk causes criticism with AfD election advertising

The Tesla boss caused great unrest in the German federal election campaign by insulting top German politicians and saying that only the AfD could save Germany. He later reiterated his position in a text in “Welt am Sonntag”. Union Chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz (CDU) called Musk’s election call for the AfD “overreaching and presumptuous.” Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) criticized the fact that the entrepreneur – who is expected to soon be part of the new US government – is “supporting a partly right-wing extremist party that preaches rapprochement with Putin’s Russia and wants to weaken transatlantic relations.”

Apparently you have been interested in the AfD for a long time

An X user suggested that the billionaire have a public conversation with AfD leader Weidel during the debate. Soon after, Weidel’s spokesman reported an exchange about a live conversation with Team Musk. He became interested in the AfD program a few months ago. Last summer he praised the party after the European elections. It is described as right-wing extremist, “but the political positions of the AfD that I have read about do not sound extremist,” Musk wrote on X in June.

Focus primarily on Germany and Great Britain

The entrepreneur has been interfering in British politics for months. He has assured the right-wing populist party Reform UK of his support and repeatedly attacks the social democratic Labor government of Keir Starmer. Among other things, he accuses her of not doing enough to solve previous crimes committed by so-called “grooming gangs”. This is about gangs that organized and sexually exploited girls and women.