Musk’s support for far-right is ‘disgusting’: Scholz

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Musk’s support for far-right is ‘disgusting’: Scholz

******* Chancellor Olaf Scholz has criticised US billionaire Elon Musk for his support of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, labelling it as “disgusting”.

The US billionaire and ally of President Donald Trump has multiple times attacked the chancellor and his government, calling on him to resign and saying that the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party is the country’s only saviour.

Scholz told journalists on the sidelines of an election campaign event in Berlin that, as a Social Democrat, he was used to wealthy media entrepreneurs intervening in ******* politics, but “what is new is that he (Musk) is intervening in favour of right-wing politicians all over Europe.”

“And this is really disgusting,” he added, stressing that such actions harm the democratic development of the European Union.

Musk has given full-throated endorsement of the anti-immigrant and anti-EU AfD on several occasions in the run up to the ******* election set for February 23.

His campaigning on behalf of the AfD, along with insults he has lobbed at other ******* politicians, has led critics to accuse him of trying to use his influence to interfere in ******* politics.

Musk spoke by video link to a crowd of several thousand AfD supporters at a campaign rally in the ******* city of Halle on Saturday. In his brief speech, he praised the AfD as the “best hope” for Germany.

In an apparent reference to the Holocaust, in which Nazi Germany systematically murdered millions of Jewish people and other innocents, Musk said there was nowadays “too much of a focus on past guilt.”

Scholz condemned Musk’s remarks, saying: “We are very happy about the United States that freed our country and helped us to become a democracy again. And this is why I’m so angry about Elon Musk intervening for the far right and Elon Musk also not acting adequate to this killing of so many Jews and other people, people in Europe, done by Germans in the past.

“I am absolutely critical about what Elon Musk said about the history of Germany,” Scholz said, adding that his country will continue to bear responsibility for the things that have been done by Germans in the past.

The anti-immigration, anti-Islam AfD is labelled as right-wing extremist by ******* security services but is currently polling second in nationwide surveys before the election, where the debate on immigration magnified after a string of violent attacks by foreign-born suspects.

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