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Political leaders have avoided Germany’s choice. But on his social media platform X, M. Musk is pitching the party as mainstream.
By Jim Tankersley
Reporting from Berlin
Elon Musk is not just stamps in German politics. He tried to break a political deadlock that kept the maximum party away from the government, when it has gained strength with voters.
On Thursday, Mr. Musk organized a live interview in English with Alice Weidel. She is the Candmaria candidate for this part by far, the election for Germany, known as AFD, the first elections of the country scheduled for February 23. Even before the event, which was held in X, the social networks platform that M . .
It was, in part, because Mr. Musk gives AFD a point of advertising and legitimacy that has been rejected for a long time in German public life.
He made this particular push in the interview, repeating his caution to Germans that AFD can lead to replacing their country’s needs.
Voting for AFD “is only the practical decision,” Musk said, approximately one hour in a verbal exchange that had largely remained in the policy of power and immigration. “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 earned an unwavering anti-establishment campaign, which reverberates in opposition to the millions of migrants and refugees who have poured into the country over the Middle East and Ukraine.
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