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Political leaders have avoided the election of Germany. But on its social media platform X, Mr. Musk launches to the party as a dominant current.
By Jim Tankersley
Reporting from Berlin
Elon Musk is not just stamps in German politics. He tried to break a political block that maintained the maximum party from far from the government, when he has won in force with the voters.
On Thursday, Musk hosted a live interview in English with Alice Weidel. She is the chancellor’s candidate for the far-right party, the choice for Germany, known as the AfD, in the country’s snap elections scheduled for Feb. 23. , which was held on X, the social media platform that Mr . .
That was, in large part, because Mr. Musk is offering the AfD a level of publicity and legitimacy that it has long been denied in German public life.
He made that push explicit in the interview, repeating his warning to Germans that only the AfD can bring about the change their country needs.
Voting for AFD “is just the practical decision,” Musk said, about an hour into a verbal exchange that had largely remained on power and immigration politics. “And I think Alice Weidel is a very moderate person, and I hope other people can say about this verbal exchange. Nothing scandalous is proposed, but not an unusual sense. ” »
The AFD has reached the position at the moment in the German national polls, through about a 5th of the electorate. It has been acquired with an unwavering campaign against the establishment, which is waking up to the millions of migrants and refugees who have entered the country through the Middle East and Ukraine’s afterlife.
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