Elon Musk speaks via live switch on AfD election campaign show

Tech billionaire Elon Musk once again switched to the German election campaign on a large stage four weeks before the Bundestag election and advertised for the AfD. At the official campaign opener of the party in Halle (Saale), the Trump consultant and Tesla boss was activated from the USA at the beginning of the speech by party leader Alice Weidel.

The AfD is the best hope for Germany, he said. “Fight for a great future for Germany,” he said under the jubilation of about 4,500 AfD supporters in the fair in Halle. Weidel thanked the US government under Donald Trump and his saying in a modified form: “Make Germany Great Again”.

“It is very important that people in Germany are proud to be Germans,” he said. The “German culture” “decreases” thousands of years. Even the Roman emperor Julius Caesar was “impressed” from the will to fight the Germanic tribes, Musk continued.

The current federal government is obviously not due to “health and well -being of the German people”. Instead, the government “suppresses freedom of expression aggressively”. The AfD must therefore “fight, fight, fight”, especially for “more self -determination for Germany and for the countries in Europe and less from Brussels”.

Musk had made a lot of unrest into the German election campaign with the statement that only the AfD could save Germany and a later live conversation with party leader and candidate for chancellor Weidel. Critics accuse him of wanting to influence the outcome of the Bundestag election with the help of his enormous reach on his platform X.

Trump had appointed his government’s special consultant to ensure drastic cuts in state expenditure in the United States. At Trump’s inauguration on Monday, he was noticed with a gesture that was reminiscent of a Hitler greeting.

In her speech, Weidel criticized the current migration, economic and energy policy. She said towards the Union: “Dear CDU, tears in the undemocratic fire walls. The voter wants a blue and black coalition in the Federal Republic of Germany.” “Alice, Alice” and “Alice for Germany” calls kept repeatedly through the hall. “Let’s make the AfD strong and let’s best overtake the CDU,” Weidel called at the end of her speech. An election commercial was also shown, in which she speaks the Federal Chancellor’s notice.

The AfD confidently presented itself at the election campaign event with speeches, recordings and show elements. The aim of the upcoming Bundestag election must be to become at least the second strongest force, said Weidel’s co-party leader Tino Chrupalla. He got a lot of cheering for the statement: “We remain difficult to educate, and we remain secure” – what an allusion should be on the formulation of the protection of the constitution, the three regional associations of the AfD as “secured right -wing extremist” and the entire party as a right -wing extremist suspicion.

Herbert Kickl, the likely next Chancellor in Austria, also spoke up by video. “We are feverish with you in this election campaign,” said the FPÖ politician and called the AfD and FPÖ partner. The AfD is the only party that listens to the people. He described Weidel as a fighting nature. “You are superior to all your opponents in every respect,” said Kickl.

The event was accompanied by protests. The police spoke of 8,000 demonstrators on site. Several meetings were registered. On the edge there were also collapsing. A group of black-dressed cyclists tried to get to the trade fair grounds. After observing a dpa reporter, the police intervened hard and stopped them.

Elon Musk is the previous speaker at an event for Donald Trump’s inauguration. When grateful greetings to the Trump voters, the tech billionaire makes a gesture that shocked many.