“Germany can only be saved by the AfD,” Musk wrote on the X social network he owns on Friday. With this comment, he also shared the post of the influential German influencer Naomi Seibtová, who has 310 thousand followers and is close to the far-right scene.
In the post, 24-year-old Seibtová sharply criticizes the candidate of the opposition Christian Democrats (CDU) for the office of Federal Chancellor (CDU) Friedrich Merz for refusing any cooperation with the AfD, also an opposition party that strongly opposes migration.
“Possible next chancellor Friedrich Merz is appalled at the idea that Germany should follow the example of Elon Musk and (ultraliberal Argentine president) Javier Milea,” Seibtová said. “She adamantly rejects a liberal approach and any discussion with the AfD,” added the influencer, who is also known as a strong opponent of the climate warming theory.
In the accompanying video, Seibtová says that the mainstream German media “already declared Merze chancellor while completely ignoring the AfD.” At the same time, she took aim at the current vice chancellor and minister of the economy from the Green party, Robert Habeck, and called him an “imbecile”.
Seibtová fears that after the elections, Merz’s CDU could form a government with the Greens, who are now in a coalition with Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats (SPD). A CDU-Green coalition would mean the continuation of “eco-socialist national suicide” in Germany, Seibtová prophesies.
In the meantime, Musk’s contribution was shared by AfD co-chair Alice Weidelová, who is also the first candidate in the history of her party for the office of chancellor. “Yes, you are absolutely right,” Weidelová wrote to Musk and invited him to look at her earlier interview for the American agency Bloomberg.
According to Weidel, Musk would read there how “socialist (former chancellor Angela) Merkel ruined our country and how the Soviet European Union is destroying our country to the extent that Germany is not functioning well.”
Scholz responded to Musk’s remark by saying that freedom of speech also applies to multibillionaires. “But at the same time, freedom of speech does not mean that a person can say things that are not appropriate and do not contain good political advice,” the Chancellor declared.
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According to the newspaper Bild, this is not the first time that Musk has commented on German politics. But now he gave voters a direct recommendation for the first time.
Already last September, the American billionaire called for the end of Scholz’s coalition of the SPD, the Greens and the Liberals (FDP), saying that the federal government is funding millions of euros to rescue migrants on boats in the Mediterranean, while most Germans reject it. “If the government in a democracy acts against the will of the people, it should end,” Musk noted at the time.
When the Berlin coalition fell apart at the beginning of November this year due to the departure of the FDP, Musk called Scholze and Habeck “crazy”.
Early parliamentary elections in Germany will probably take place on February 23, 2025. They should be announced by Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier next week on Friday.
The voting favorite is the bloc of Merz’s CDU and the Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU), which could win 33 percent of the vote. This would mean that he would need a coalition partner. In the polls, the AfD is in second place with 19 percent, while the SPD and the Greens each have 14 percent.
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