Elon Musk's endorsement of Germany's right-wing AfD party sparked controversy, leading to the resignation of the opinion editor at Welt am Sonntag. Musk argued that the AfD is not extremist, citing the party leader's same-sex partner.
Elon Musk departs the Hyatt Regency Capitol Hill where President-elect Donald Trump spoke to House Republicans on November 13, 2024 in Washington, DC. Musk recently backed Germany's Alternative for Germany (AfD) in a guest opinion piece for Germany's Welt am Sonntag newspaper published online on Saturday that prompted the commentary editor to resign in protest.
In the commentary, published in German by the flagship paper of the Axel Springer media group, Musk expanded on his post on social media platform X last week claiming that 'only the AfD can save Germany.' 'The portrayal of the AfD as right-wing extremist is clearly false, considering that Alice Weidel, the party's leader, has a same-sex partner from Sri Lanka! Does that sound like Hitler to you? Please!' Musk said in the piece. Germany's domestic intelligence agency has classified the AfD at the national level as a suspected extremism case since 2021. Shortly after the piece was published online, the editor of the opinion section, Eva Marie Kogel, wrote on X that she had submitted her resignation, with a link to the commentary. 'Democracy and journalism thrive on freedom of expression. This includes dealing with polarising positions and classifying them journalistically,' the newspaper's editor-in-chief designate Jan Philipp Burgard and Ulf Poschardt, who takes over as publisher on Jan. 1, told Reuters. Alexander Gauland of the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) speaks during his election speech as co-chairman during the AfD federal congress at the Hannover Congress Centrum (HCC) on December 2, 2017 in Hanover, Germany.They said discussion about Musk's piece, which had around 340 comments several hours after it was published, was 'very revealing.''Musk's diagnosis is correct, but his therapeutic approach, that only the AfD can save Germany, is fatally false,' he wrote, referencing the AfD's desire to leave the European Union and seek rapprochement with Russia as well as appease Chin
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