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Musk’s AfD endorsements have prompted a significant backlash in Germany, with mainstream political leaders arguing they quantity to election interference. Given Musk’s ties to United States President-elect Donald Trump, one opponent recommended that interference could also be coming from the incoming American administration.
The German authorities should make clear “whether or not the repeated disrespect, defamation and interference within the election marketing campaign had been additionally expressed within the identify of the brand new U.S. authorities,” Rolf Mützenich, a outstanding politician from Germany’s Social Democratic Party, advised German outlet Spiegel.
A spokesperson for the German authorities additionally accused Musk of “making an attempt to affect the federal election,” including: “Freedom of opinion additionally covers the best nonsense.”
While Musk has supplied repeated endorsements of the AfD, Trump’s second-in-command, Vice President-elect JD Vance, mentioned Thursday that he wouldn’t endorse a party within the upcoming German election.
“I’m not endorsing a party within the German elections, because it’s not my nation and we hope to have good relations with all Germans,” Vance wrote in a publish on X. But regardless of insisting on his neutrality, the vice president-elect added that Musk’s opinion piece was “fascinating” and defended the AfD in opposition to what he described as American media’s “slanders” of the party as “Nazi-lite.”
It’s unclear whether or not Musk’s endorsement of the AfD will assist the party’s election possibilities. The AfD is at present polling in second place at 19 %. Germany’s conservative alliance is in first with 30 %, placing Friedrich Merz, the chief of the Christian Democratic Union, in pole place to grow to be the subsequent chancellor.
