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The world’s richest man, a key adviser to President-elect Donald J. Trump is ridiculing his grievances against Germany’s extremist AfD party as Germany prepares for elections.
By Christopher F. Schuetze
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and a close adviser to President-elect Donald J. Trump, surprised Guyy in Gerguyy last week by endorsing his far-right Gerguyy Alternative party, which monitors national intelligence because it is extremist.
This week, Musk became even more concerned about the country’s snap elections, explaining in an op-ed why he believes the far-right party is the “last spark of hope” for Germany.
“The traditional parties have failed in Germany,” Mr. Musk wrote in comments published online by the daily Welt on Saturday. “Their policies have led to economic stagnation, social unrest, and the erosion of national identity.”
Musk’s op-ed comes as Germany prepares for intense winter elections after the collapse of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s three-party coalition in November. On Friday, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier announced the dissolution of Parliament and set February 23 as the date for new elections.
With 4 classical parties and 3 extremist parties from the left and right competing for seats in parliament and participation in the government, the polls favor the conservative Christian Democratic Union. However, the AfD, with its anti-immigration platform, is in second place in the polls, with around 20 percent.
Musk’s comment was published in the Sunday edition of Welt, a conservative newspaper owned by the Axel Springer media group, which also owns Politico in the United States. Many of the newspaper’s journalists reportedly protested against the publication of this comment. Marie Kogel, who was once the newspaper’s opinion chief, resigned from her position after publication, as reported in X.
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