The far-right party’s candidate, Alice Weidel, has used the party’s usual anti-immigration discourse, blaming migrants for a so-called “major” increase in crime.
The South African tycoon and owner of the social network X, Elon Musk, has that reiterated his support for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) in a live debate with the candidate of the said formation, Alice Weidel, in which both harshly attacked the mandate of former Chancellor Angela Merkel.
“Only the AfD can save Germany. There’s nothing more to say. And people must support the AfD, otherwise things in Germany will get much, much worse,” he declared.
During the conversation, which lasted over an hour, both Weidel and Musk spoke They have sharply criticized former Chancellor Angela Merkel for their immigration policy. Specifically, the AfD candidate has accused Merkel of opening the country’s borders against the will of the German people and has used the party’s usual anti-immigration discourse, blaming migrants for a so-called “ large” increase in crime.
Furthermore, Weidel believes the former chancellor “effectively ruined her country” by gradually eliminating nuclear power in Germany, in what he has described as an “odious energy policy.” In this sense, he said that the former leader of the center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party had in fact been a “green” politician.
In this regard, Musk has described the decision to close nuclear power plants as “tragic”, although he has declared himself a strong supporter of renewable energy, and has indicated that the German government must reverse course and increase nuclear energy production.
Musk, whose electric car maker Tesla has a large factory on the outskirts of the German capital Berlin, has taken the opportunity to denounce what he sees as bureaucracy and high taxes, something Weidel has also criticized.
In a different vein, the AfD candidate has defended herself against criticism of her party for its references to Nazism, stating that Adolf Hitler “was a kind of communist socialist” and that her “conservative-libertarian party (…) was precisely it’s the opposite. .” The billionaire, for his part, has also described the dictator as a “socialist” as he “nationalized industries like crazy.”
Source: EITB
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