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The Economist
The Economist
2 Jan 2025


NextImg:Elon Musk’s praise for the far right infuriates most of Germany
Europe | Muskular intervention

Elon Musk’s praise for the far right infuriates most of Germany

A badly written op-ed may have set the terms of the election campaign

|BERLIN

Alice Weidel could hardly have hoped for better publicity. With federal elections due on February 23rd, Ms Weidel is running for chancellor as co-head of the hard-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. In an op-ed on December 29th in the Sunday edition of Welt, a conservative paper, Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and a confidant of Donald Trump, called the AfD “the last spark of hope” for Germany. The country, he claimed, is “teetering on the brink of economic and cultural collapse”. He had a right to speak out about German politics, he said, because he has invested heaps of money in the country. (A multibillion-dollar plant in Brandenburg producing cars and batteries for Tesla, his electric carmaker, opened in 2022.)

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