Germany's fierce right alternative may not have done the same in Sunday's elections as the leaders had hoped, but its groundbreaking performance is enough for a congratulatory call from Elon Musk. It was.
Alice Weidel, the party's prime minister candidate known for German initials AFD, slept Monday morning to appeal to journalists from Musk, the world's wealthiest man and top adviser to President Trump. He said that. When she saw the phone in the morning after she won 20.8% of the party, she said she had missed calls from the US, which turned out to be from Mr Musk. Personally. ”
Hours later, Musk reposted a congratulatory note to X from Hungarian authoritarian leader Victor Orban, saying, “Really, congratulations @Alice_Weidel! With this growth rate, @AFD is the next election By the time we will be a majority party.”
The AFD placed second in Germany's national elections, with over 20% of votes, nearly doubled in 2021, doubling the far-right party's record since the end of World War II I did. But weidel and her party will remain affirmed as Friedrich Merz, the leader of the number one Christian Democrat and the presumed future prime minister, ruled out forming a coalition with the AFD. .
Some of the AFDs, which are trying to curb irregular immigration, increase deportation and improve the economy, are classified as extremists by German domestic information. But Vice President JD Vance shocked European leaders earlier this month after mainstream parties told them they shouldn't eliminate far-right ions like the AFD. I met Weidel.
Musk first publicly supported AFD on the social media platform X in December, and later made a splash with a 75-minute video conversation with Weidel, who he hosted on X. In January he tried again to call a loud party meeting in Halle to promote the party, where he tried to persuade the crowd to convince his neighbors, friends and family to vote for AFD. I recommended it.
It was a very rare public intervention by foreigners and White House advisers in German elections, when Musk told AFD supporters there was “too much focus on Germany's past guilt,” It has become even more prominent.
But Musk's push didn't seem to have had a major impact on the party's already high vote count. Tino Krupala, a co-leader of the party with Weidel, admitted before the election that Musk may not be a withdrawal of potential AFD voters, but his support is irrelevant to the interests of other business leaders. He said it led to a donation. .
