Musk is again involved in the German election campaign: online conversation with AfD chairwoman planned

It is not the first time that the top advisor to future American president Donald Trump has intervened in the German election campaign. Musk has repeatedly expressed his support for AfD and recently even received a forum in the Welt am Sonntag newspaper through an opinion contribution. He described Germany as a country “on the brink of economic and cultural decline”, and according to him the extreme right party is the only one that can save the country from destruction. As boss of Tesla, Musk is also one of the largest employers in Brandenburg, the state in eastern Germany where AfD scores strongly.

Central themes in the conversation between Musk and Weidel will mainly be freedom of expression and the AfD’s positions for a Germany that is armed for the future, Tapp said.

The fact that Musk is so openly interfering in German politics is causing a lot of commotion among our eastern neighbors. Without mentioning him by name, outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz sharply criticized Musk in his New Year’s speech. It is not up to “social media owners” to determine who Germans will vote for, it was said.