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.

Germany’s leading political figures say Musk will face consequences for his endorsement of the country’s far-right party, Tom Watling and Alicja Hagopian write

The racist, far-right, pro-Russia AfD— founded in 2013 as an anti-European Union party—is an outlier even among Europe’s nationalist parties. One senior leader has been twice convicted of using banned Nazi slogans; the party has also been under observation by the German domestic intelligence agency for suspected extremism.

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.

The leader of the party said she received the call after the party known as the AfD finished second in national elections, by far the best showing in its history.

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.

Alice Weidel, missed a late-night congratulatory call from American billionaire Elon Musk following her party's success in the Bundestag elections. When she checked her phone in the morning, she saw "missed calls in the night from the United States.

Alice Weidel, leader of Alternative for Germany (AfD), missed a late-night congratulatory call from American billionaire Elon Musk after her party's success in the Bundestag elections. When she checked her phone in the morning,

UK group Everyone Hates Elon went viral for posting parody ads for Tesla's "Swasticar" with an image of Musk making a Nazi salute after the tech billionaire helped Germany's far-right party become the second-most powerful in the nation.