Elon Musk has backed Germany’s right-wing Alternative for Germany party (AfD) in a guest opinion piece the Welt am Sonntag newspaper.

The article, online, led the editor of the comment to resign in protest.

In the article, Musk expanded on his article on his social media platform X last week, that “only AFD can save Germany. “

“The statement that AFD is an extreme right is obviously false, since Alice Weidel, the party leader, has a same sex spouse of Sri Lanka.

“Does that sound like Hitler to you? Please!”

He added: “The Alternative for Germany is the spark of hope for this country. “

The National Intelligence of Germany classifies the FCA nationwide as a case of alleged extremism 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.

However, the newspaper’s editor-in-chief designate Jan Philipp Burgard and Ulf Poschardt, who takes over as publisher on 1 January, told Reuters: “Democracy and journalism thrive on freedom of expression.

“This manages polarizing positions and classifying them as journalists. “

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Following Musk’s comment, the newspaper published a reaction from Burgard.

“Musk’s diagnosis is correct, but his therapeutic approach, that only the AfD can save Germany, is fatally false,” he wrote.

Burgard referred to the AFD’s preference to leave the European Union and relations with Russia and China.

It comes as Germans are set to vote on 23 February after a coalition government led by Chancellor Olaf Scholz collapsed.

AFD is time in opinion surveys and can be frustrating most right -wing centers or central left.