{"id":793,"date":"2025-01-25T20:44:34","date_gmt":"2025-01-25T21:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/?p=793"},"modified":"2025-01-25T22:25:50","modified_gmt":"2025-01-25T22:25:50","slug":"future-of-europe-hangs-on-german-snap-elections-musk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/25\/future-of-europe-hangs-on-german-snap-elections-musk\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Future of Europe\u2019 hangs on German snap elections \u2013 Musk"},"content":{"rendered":"

The entrepreneur has reaffirmed his support for the right-wing Alternative for Germany party ahead of the February vote<\/strong><\/p>\n

The SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk expressed his \u201cfull support\u201d<\/em> for the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) at a campaign rally held by the party in the city of Halle on Saturday. The US-based billionaire called on party backers to \u201cgo all out\u201d<\/em> to convince Germans to vote for AfD, arguing that the upcoming snap parliamentary elections could be key for the future not only of Germany but of the world.<\/p>\n

The tech entrepreneur addressed the crowd that gathered for the event in Halle via video link. The party chose the central German city for its opening election campaign rally, which was attended by party co-leaders Tino Chrupalla and Alice Weidel, who is also the AfD candidate for chancellor. Some 4,500 people joined the event, according to AP.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis election is extremely important. I do not say it lightly when I think the future of civilization could hang on this election,\u201d<\/em> Musk told the cheering crowd. \u201cI think it could decide the entire fate of Europe, maybe the fate of the world.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The businessman has said he was convinced that people in Germany wanted \u201csomething different\u201d<\/em> from what they have had over the past decade. Voting for the AfD was the only way to bring about this much-desired change, he stated, calling on party supporters to do everything possible to convince their \u201cfriends and family\u201d<\/em> to join them, one person at a time.<\/p>\n

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ELON TO GERMANY: THE FUTURE WILL BE GREAT!<\/p>\n

“This election coming up in Germany is incredibly important… <\/p>\n

I think it could decide the entire fate of Europe, maybe the fate of the world.”<\/p>\n

Source: @Alice_Weidel<\/a> @elonmusk<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/cJDhNRlBmW<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) January 25, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Musk also praised the policies proposed by the AfD as the \u201ccommon sense\u201d<\/em> ones and compared them to the approach advocated by US President Donald Trump. The businessman emerged as Trump\u2019s close advisor during the latter\u2019s election campaign last year. \u201cYou have my full support,\u201d<\/em> he told the rally, adding that the AfD seeks to get \u201cgovernment out of people\u2019s ways\u201d<\/em> and give \u201cpeople back personal freedom\u201d<\/em> and protect them from \u201cdangers.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The right-wing party has long been known for its harsh anti-immigrant rhetoric, with many German media outlets referring to it as far-right. Until recently, all other major German political parties refused to cooperate with AfD. Friedrich Merz, the leader of the Conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU), however, recently said that he would be willing to accept AfD support for his own party\u2019s immigration policy proposals, even if it would be the only other political group to back them.<\/p>\n

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Germany\u2019s Scholz sets out limits to \u2018free speech\u2019<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Musk has been active in his support for AfD over the past months. In December, he called it the only party capable of \u201csaving Germany\u201d<\/em> and praised its anti-immigration stance while calling German Chancellor Olaf Scholz an \u201cincompetent fool.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Earlier in January, the businessman also hosted a livestream with Weidel on his social media platform X, reiterating that \u201conly AfD can save Germany.\u201d<\/em> The livestream was closely monitored by some 150 EU officials and technical specialists as Brussels suspected it could give the right-wing party an \u201cunfair advantage\u201d<\/em> ahead of the February 23 vote.<\/p>\n

Musk\u2019s activities have provoked unease in Berlin. Scholz had previously accused the SpaceX and Tesla CEO of seeking attention online and urged people to not \u201cfeed the troll.\u201d<\/em> Later, he also called him a \u201cthreat\u201d<\/em> to democracy and stated that although people in Germany and Europe enjoy freedom of speech, it cannot be used to support \u201cextreme-right positions.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

On Saturday, Musk accused the German government of \u201csuppressing [free] speech very aggressively\u201d<\/em> and said that \u201ctrue democracy\u201d<\/em> is impossible under such circumstances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The entrepreneur has reaffirmed his support for the right-wing Alternative for Germany party ahead of the February vote The SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk expressed his \u201cfull support\u201d for the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) at a campaign rally held by the party in the city of Halle on Saturday. The US-based billionaire called…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":796,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions\/796"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}