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- enoughmuskspam@lemmy.world
Summary
Germany accused Elon Musk of trying to influence its February 2024 election by endorsing the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) through social media posts and a commentary in Welt am Sonntag.
Musk praised the AfD’s positions on regulation and taxes, calling them Germany’s saviors.
His actions sparked backlash, with opposition leader Friedrich Merz calling it unprecedented interference and SPD leader Saskia Esken vowing to resist influence from wealthy elites.
The Welt editor who published Musk’s piece resigned, while the AfD, polling second, remains shunned by mainstream parties.
I’m not fully familiar with the AfD but if they were Nazis they’d already be illegal (being a Nazi is illegal in Germany and a few other countries). From what I know they’re just your usual far-right populist pro-russian anti-eu party, which sadly isn’t enough to stop them legally.
The due process to ban the AfD was already started, but won’t conclude before the election