Elon Musk Boosts Germany's Far-Right AfD Party

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The leading candidate, Friedrich Merz, a conservative who has adopted many of the AfD’s hard-line positions on immigration, used his closing statement of the debate to promise his voters that he would never allow the AfD into his government. Under him, he said, the firewall would hold.
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Germany's elections are taking place on Sunday, and it is the party set to finish second that is attracting much of the attention. The far-right AfD could win as many as 145 of the Bundestag's 630 seats, according to polling. This comes just 12 years after the party was founded.
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Concern is growing over the far-right Alternative for Germany party’s rise ahead of the German election. Its U.S. supporters include Elon Musk and JD Vance.
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Musk has emerged as a fervent supporter of Alternative for Germany, a far-right, anti-immigrant party that is polling in second place ahead of Germany's parliamentary election.
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As an openly gay politician who lives with her Sri Lanka-born partner in Switzerland, Alice Weidel was an unusual choice to ...
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Alice Weidel: The far-right leader shaping Germany’s AfD
As Germany heads to the polls, a look at the politician cultivating the anti-immigrant party’s ‘image of competence’.
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Heated Protests Erupt Around AfD Leader Alice Weidel's Swiss Home
Around 250 protesters demonstrated against AfD leader Alice Weidel in Einsiedeln, Switzerland, where she has a home, leading ...
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German election 2025: Will the far-right AfD break through the firewall and take power?
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Analysis-Germany's Far-Right AfD Is Shut Out From Power for Now, but Waiting in the Wings
The AfD has won new support in western states from voters frustrated by Germany's weak economy, seeking curbs on migration, ...
Meet Germany’s far-right leader Alice Weidel, a study in contradictions
As Dr Weidel took the stage in Halle, the crowd started a chant that was a not-too-subtle play on a Nazi slogan, “Everything ...
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What is the AfD and could it change German politics?
The far-right Alternative for Germany party has been polling above 20% ahead of tomorrow's German federal election and looks ...
Migrant violence pushes voters into AfD’s arms
Far-Right German party is capitalising on discontent over terror incidents as the country prepares for election ...
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Alice Weidel, a far-right profile that breaks the mold
The AfD leader maintains a discourse that contradicts her personal life but is allowing her to gain ground among a German ...