The tycoon reiterates his support in a new article in ‘Welt am Sonntag’ that has led to the resignation of the media’s opinion chief.
MADRID, 29 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The main candidate for the German Chancellery in the upcoming February elections, the conservative Fredrich Merz, has accused the South African-American tycoon Elon Musk, who will hold an advisory position in the next US Administration of Donald Trump, of carrying out electoral interference without precedents by publicly expressing his support for the far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD).
“I do not remember a comparable case of interference in the electoral campaign of a friendly country in the history of Western democracies,” protested the president of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), before condemning a call “as arrogant as it was presumptuous.” in a statement to the media of the Funke group collected by the DPA agency.
The president-elect of the United States announced that Musk will co-lead with businessman Vivek Ramaswamy an advisory commission dedicated to improving the efficiency of the American public administration as a reward for the support provided by the magnate during the election campaign.
On December 20, Musk published a brief message on the social network ‘ a guest article in which he has reaffirmed his position.
“The description of the AfD as a far-right party is clearly false,” Musk wrote, after recalling that the party’s leader, Alice Weidel, is openly gay and her partner is from Sri Lanka. “Do you think he’s Hitler? Please!” protested the magnate, who once again applauded the AfD as “the last spark of hope” for Germany.
After the publication of Musk’s article, the opinion chief of ‘Welt’ and its weekly, Eva Marie Kogel, has presented her resignation in protest, as announced by the journalist on the X network before Merz’s reaction, who has been shocked at what would happen in a case like this in the United States.
“Let’s imagine for a moment the – justified – reaction of Americans to a comparatively one-sided article by a well-known German businessman in the ‘New York Times’ in favor of the election of a ‘renegade’ in the US presidential election campaign,” commented Merz. , in reference to the “cordon sanitaire” that the rest of the main German parties have imposed on the AfD, currently the second political force according to polls, behind the conservative coalition that makes up the CDU with the Christian Social Union (CSU).
The next editor-in-chief of ‘Welt’, Jan Phillip Burgard, has accompanied Musk’s piece with an opinion in which he regrets the tycoon’s approach. “American businessman Elon Musk believes that only Alternative for Germany could fundamentally reform the country, and he is dead wrong.” “AfD is partly xenophobic and anti-Semitic. That is why it is a danger for Germany,” he added.