The American billionaire Elon Musk is “trying to influence the German legislative elections” scheduled for the end of February.
This is through his manifest support for the far-right AfD party, the German government stated this Monday.
“Elon Musk “He is trying to influence the federal elections with his statements,” said Christiane Hoffmann, deputy government spokesperson.
In an opinion article published on Saturday by the newspaper Welt, the owner of X, SpaceX y Tesla He estimated that “Alternative for Germany (AfD) is the last ray of hope.”
Which according to Elon Musk, is “on the verge of economic and cultural collapse.”
Previously, on December 20, the richest man in the world wrote on the social network X that “only the AfD can save Germany.”
According to polls, the AfD has an average of 19% of voting intentions for the early elections in February, behind the conservatives, with 32%.
The tycoon who has become a close collaborator of the president-elect of USA, Donald Trumpcalled the head of the German government, Olaf Scholz“imbecile and incompetent” after this month’s attack on a Christmas market.
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The president of the Social Democratic Party, Lars Klingbeil, compared Musk’s behavior to that of Russian President Vladimir Putin. “Both want Germany to weaken and sink into chaos,” he said.
Well placed to become the next chancellor, conservative Friedrich Merz also criticized Musk’s column.
“I do not remember a comparable case of interference in the electoral campaign of a friendly country in the history of Western democracies,” the leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) told reporters.