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The BBC reports:
Germans are going to the polls after an intense election campaign dominated by their country’s faltering economy and a succession of deadly attacks that have made migration and security a focal issue. Friedrich Merz, the 69-year-old conservative leader, is in pole position to become Germany’s next chancellor, in a vote closely watched in Europe and the US. He promises to fix most problems in four years – a tall order for Europe’s biggest economy and a creaking infrastructure.
As Ukraine’s second-biggest provider of military aid, Germany’s next government will face a US president who has condemned President Volodymyr Zelensky as a dictator and fractured the West’s united front against Russia. German political leaders have also been shocked by US Vice-President JD Vance, who has met the AfD’s candidate for chancellor, Alice Weidel, and called for an end to the long-standing taboo of talking to the far-right.
Reuters reports:
Alice Weidel [photo], the chancellor candidate of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), is an unlikely public face for a male-dominated, anti-immigration party that depicts itself as a defender of traditional family values and ordinary people.
The 45-year-old is raising two sons with a Sri Lankan-born woman, a filmmaker, and speaks fluent Mandarin, having done a doctorate in economics in China. A west German leading a party that is strongest in the former communist East, she worked for Goldman Sachs.
Weidel’s unusual profile, however, is precisely what makes her an asset to the AfD, say political analysts, lending a veneer of well-heeled liberal respectability to a party that is suspected by authorities of being antidemocratic.
Forbes reports:
The world’s wealthiest billionaire and government efficiency chief Elon Musk once again voiced support in a post on X for Germany’s far-right, anti-immigration Alternative for Germany party ahead of the country’s Sunday general election, his latest show of support for the controversial party he has repeatedly championed.
Musk posted, “AfD!” alongside German flag emojis, which he pinned to his X profile, on Saturday, one day before Germany’s general election. Musk also reposted a tweet from conservative activist Charlie Kirk, who said Saturday: “Here’s to AfD having a historic showing in tomorrow’s elections in Germany!! Let’s make the West great again.
Yesterday Musk’s tweet below was marked as an ad, meaning that it got even more than the usual visibility. When he bought Twitter, Musk changed the algorithm so that virtually everyone would see his posts.