Bundestag election: Musk live on AfD election campaign show

Four weeks before the Bundestag election, Tech billionaire Elon Musk once again switched on the German election campaign on a big stage 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.

Musk also sees support for AfD at Trump

De AfD is the best hope for Germany, he said. To be proud to be German is ok. “Fight for a great future for Germany,” said Musk, under the jubilation of the approximately 4,500 AfD supporters in the fair in Halle. The police spoke of 3,200 supporters of the AfD. The entrepreneur complained that there is “too much focus on past guilt”, you have to leave it behind. Children should not be guilty for the sins of their great -grandparents, he said and called on optimism. As a chancellor, Weidel would be very good for Germany. The AfD has its full support and – he believes – also the support of the Trump government.

Weidel thanked the US government under Donald Trump with the best wishes and his motto “Make America Great Again”. She later added a “Make Germany Great Again”.

Before Christmas, Musk had with the statement that only the AfD could save Germany and brought a lot of unrest into the German election campaign with 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.

Weidel: Voters want blue-black coalition

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.

“Let’s remain uncomfortable”

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 national associations of the AfD as “secured right -wing extremist” and the entire party as a right -wing extremist suspicion.

Video message from FPÖ boss Kickl

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 around 9,000 demonstrators on site. On the sidelines of the party congress and the counter -demonstrations, 13 criminal investigations were initiated, among other things because of dangerous bodily harm, coercion and insult, the police summed up in the evening. 21 people had tried to violently overcome a barrier that they had been initiated against them.