Published January 19,2025
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Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Sunday expressed concern at tech billionaire Elon Musk‘s interventions within the German electoral marketing campaign.
“What should really worry us is that a man like Elon Musk, who has great media power, is backing extreme right-wing parties in Europe, for example in the United Kingdom, in Germany and in many other countries,” Scholz mentioned throughout an election rally in Schwalbach am Taunus, close to the western metropolis of Frankfurt.
“This should be criticized,” he added. Germany goes to the polls in early elections on February 23.
Musk has praised the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) because the “only party that can save Germany” and not too long ago held a stay dialog on his platform X with AfD chief Alice Weidel.
He has additionally been extremely important of Scholz and of German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
Scholz mentioned that Musk was not the primary rich conservative to aim to make use of his affect throughout an election marketing campaign.
“The fact that conservative media owners are running fierce campaigns against Social Democratic politicians is nothing new,” mentioned Scholz. “They’ve always been allowed to do that.”
“The fact that it is happening from abroad is new, but it is also covered by freedom of expression,” he added.
The conservative CDU/CSU alliance, which is at the moment in opposition, is main in German polls on round 30%, adopted by the AfD on round 20%. Scholz’s centre-left SPD is trailing on 16%, adopted by the Greens, his coalition companion, on 13%.
Source: www.anews.com.tr