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Musk joined the AfD election campaign show live
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The AfD can rely on Elon Musk: After his expressions of sympathy for the party on X and the conversation with party leader Alice Weidel, the billionaire is now going one better.
Four weeks before the federal election, tech billionaire Elon Musk once again took part in the German election campaign on a large stage and campaigned for the AfD. At the party’s official election campaign launch in Halle (Saale), the Trump advisor and Tesla boss was connected live from the USA at the beginning of the speech by party leader Alice Weidel.
Musk also sees support for the AfD from Trump
The AfD is the best hope for Germany, he said. It’s okay to be proud of being German. “Fight for a great future for Germany,” said Musk to the cheers of what the party said were around 4,500 AfD supporters at the trade fair in Halle. The police spoke of 3,200 AfD supporters. The entrepreneur complained that there was “too much focus on past guilt” and that we had to put that behind us. Children should not be guilty for the sins of their great-grandparents, he said, calling for optimism. In his opinion, Weidel would be very good for Germany as chancellor. The AfD has his full support and – he believes – also the support of the Trump administration.
Weidel expressed his thanks with best wishes for the US government under Donald Trump and his motto “Make America great again”. She later added “Make Germany great again.”
Before Christmas, Musk brought a lot of unrest into the German election campaign by saying that only the AfD could save Germany and with a later live conversation with party leader and candidate for chancellor Weidel. Critics accuse him of wanting to influence the outcome of the federal election with the help of his enormous reach on his platform X.
Weidel: Voters want a blue-black coalition
In her speech, Weidel criticized the current migration, economic and energy policies. She said to the Union: “Dear CDU, tear down the undemocratic firewalls. The voters want a blue-black coalition in the Federal Republic of Germany.” Shouts of “Alice, Alice” and “Alice for Germany” kept ringing through the hall. “Let’s make the AfD strong, and let’s best overtake the CDU,” Weidel shouted at the end of her speech. An election commercial was also shown in which she takes the Federal Chancellor’s oath of office.
“Let’s stay safe and uncomfortable”
The AfD presented itself confidently at the election campaign event with speeches, clips and show elements. The goal in the upcoming federal election must be to become at least the second strongest force, said Weidel’s co-party leader Tino Chrupalla. He received a lot of cheers for the statement: “Let’s remain difficult to educate, and we will certainly remain uncomfortable” – which is probably an allusion to the formulation of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, which observed the three state associations of the AfD as “certainly right-wing extremist” and the entire party as a suspected right-wing extremist case.
Video message from FPÖ leader Kickl
Herbert Kickl, the likely next Chancellor of Austria, also spoke via video. “We are rooting for you in this election campaign,” said the FPÖ politician and called the AfD and FPÖ partners. The AfD is the only party that listens to the people. He described Weidel as a fighter. “You are vastly superior to all your opponents in every respect,” said Kickl.
The event was accompanied by protests. The police spoke of around 9,000 demonstrators on site. On the sidelines of the party conference and the counter-demonstrations, 13 criminal investigations were initiated, including for grievous bodily harm, coercion and insults, the police reported in the evening. 21 people tried to forcefully overcome a barrier and proceedings were initiated against them for breach of the peace.
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Source: Stern

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