Elon Musk and Europe’s hard-Right figures today celebrated the historic state election victory of the anti-immigrant AfD party in Germany.
The tech billionaire wrote ‘Well done!’ after the party won a decisive victory in Germany’s eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt, far ahead of mainstream rivals.
The results put a hard-Right party within reach of power at the state level for the first time since World War Two.
The surge is thought to rely heavily on nostalgia for life in former communist East Germany and deep-seated economic frustrations that have lingered since the 1990 reunification.
In an interview following the results, AfD (Alternative für Deutschland) co-founder Alice Weidel
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