Elon Musk backs Germany's far-right party ahead of election
Elon Musk waded into Germany’s election on Friday, by expressing his support for a far-right anti-party that is being monitored for extremism.
Elon Musk waded into Germany’s election on Friday, expressing his support for a far-right anti-immigrant and anti-Islam party that's being monitored by the country’s domestic intelligence agency.
“Only the AfD can save Germany,” the tech billionaire wrote on X, referring to the Alternative for Germany party.
The German government declined to comment at its regular press conference on Friday.
Europe’s most populous country is expected to vote on Feb. 23. On Monday, Chancellor Olaf Scholz's center-left coalition government collapsed after he lost a confidence vote.
It is only the sixth time such a vote has been called in the country of 83 million people, Europe’s largest economy. It was required because, in post-World War II Germany, the constitution does not allow the Bundestag, or parliament, to dissolve itself.
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