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Political leaders have avoided the election of Germany. But on its social media platform X, Mr. Musk launches to the party as a dominant current.

By Jim Tankersley

Reporting from Berlin

Elon Musk is not just stamps in German politics. He tried to break a political deadlock that kept the maximum party away from the government, when it has gained strength with voters.

On Thursday, Mr. Musk hosted a live interview in English with Alice Weidel. She is the candidate for this far-off party, the election for Germany, known as the AFD, the country’s first elections scheduled for February 23. Even before the event, which was held on X, the social media platform that M. .

That was, in large part, because Mr. Musk is offering the AfD a level of publicity and legitimacy that it has long been denied in German public life.

He made this particular impulse in the interview, repeating his caution to the Germans that AFD can cause the replacement needs of his country.

Voting for the FCA “is just the practical decision,” Mr. Musk said, about an hour into a verbal exchange he had largely lived on power and immigration politics. And I think Alice Weidel is a very moderate person, and I hope other people can say well about this verbal exchange. Nothing outrageous is proposed, but not an unusual sense. “

The AFD has reached the position at the moment in the German national polls, through about a 5th of the electorate. It has been acquired with an unwavering campaign against the establishment, which is waking up to the millions of migrants and refugees who have entered the country through the Middle East and Ukraine’s afterlife.

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