US billionaire Elon Musk, set to join President-elect Donald Trump’s administration as an outside adviser, waded into Germany’s election campaign on Friday (Dec 20), calling the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) the country’s saviour.
The AfD is running second in opinion polls and might be able to thwart either a centre-right or centre-left majority, but Germany’s mainstream, more centrist parties have vowed to shun support from the AfD at the national level.
Europe’s leading power is expected to vote on Feb. 23 after a centre-left coalition government led by Chancellor Olaf Scholz collapsed.
“Only the AfD can save Germany,” Musk wrote in a post on his social media platform, X.
