Elon Musk yesterday congratulated the hard alternative for Germany (AfD) and predicted that it would win the next German elections in 2029.
The Tech billionaire called AFD leader Alice Weidel after her party became second in federal elections and won more than 20 percent of the votes to become the most important opposition party.
The unprecedented result, which AFD survey saw second after the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU), is the first time that its own party has become the most important opposition in post-war history.
Miss Weidel said she believed that the party could catch up with the CDU in the coming years for the next elections … to become the strongest strength in Germany.
Mr. Musk, who previously addressed AfD supporters and said that the party was “the best hope for the future of Germany,” said he believed that the party could gain power in 2029.
He wrote on X: 'Congratulations Alice Weidel! At this pace of growth, AfD will be the majority party in the next elections. '
Miss Weidel said she had woke up yesterday to discover that she had missed a phone call from Mr. Musk and said that he “had congratulated me personally.”
Alice Weidel, co-leader of the alternative to Germany Party (AfD), gestures as SpaceX CEO Elon Musk appears on the screen during a central election campaign event of the AfD in Halle (SAALE), Germany on January 25
American vice-president JD Vance
The leader of the AfD, Alice Weidel, waves a German flag at the party's head office on Sunday. The party has taken 20 percent, which is the strongest show for an extreme right-wing party in Germany's German era
Friedrich Merz of the Christian Democratic Union party
Current Chancellor Olaf Scholz. In the meantime, the ruling center-left SPD has been set to third place in what there is a disastrous result for the Scholz party
The center -right CDU won the Sunday elections with 28.6 percent of the votes, followed by the AfD at 20.8 percent.
The Center-Linkse SPD under the leadership of the German Chancellor Olaf Scholz made only 16 percent, the worst result in its history.
The AfD won the mood in a large part of the former East Germany and Miss Weidel said the result showed that it was time for other parties to drop their so-called firewall against cooperation with the party.
She said: 'They can't exclude millions of voters. That is undemocratic. The firewall must go – no functioning democracy has a firewall. '
Mr. Musk and the American vice-president JD Vance both expressed themselves against the firewall, which they have branded 'anti-democratic'.
CDU leader Friedrich Merz is expected to form a coalition with the SPD. He said he was 'extremely worried' by the results in the east of the country.
He said that the result there was “the last warning signal for the political parties of the Democratic Center in Germany to find common land.”
Hungary's hard right-wing, Pro-Putin leader Viktor Orban also congratulated Miss Weidel.
He wrote on X: 'The people of Germany voted for a change in immense figures. I want to congratulate Alice Weidel on doubling AfD's share in the vote. Good luck and God blessing Germany! '
