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Fortune
Ryan Hogg

Elon Musk accused of trying to weaken Europe with AfD backing

Elon Musk listens as U.S. President-elect Donald Trump addresses a House Republicans Conference meeting at the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill on November 13, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Credit: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

German lawmakers have lined up to criticize Elon Musk after the U.S. presidential kingmaker waded into the country’s political space weeks before a vital election.

Musk, who has been courting populist leaders including Italy’s Gerogina Meloni and Reform U.K.’s Nigel Farage, wrote an op-ed in the German publication Welt am Sonntag that the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party represented Germany’s “last spark of hope.”

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