AfD will not be part of Germany's government, despite coming in second during national elections earlier this year.
Voters in Germany are rejecting a left-wing movement that has lost its moral compass.
For Merz, depending on the support of the AfD will be far too risky.
Vance had met on Friday with the leader of AfD, after endorsing the party as a political partner, a stance Berlin dismissed as 'unwelcome election interference.'
Cyber experts warn that Russian bots are flooding social media with fake terror threats ahead of Germany’s election.
Friedrich Merz broke a political taboo by aligning with the AfD on immigration, winning a symbolic vote but facing backlash and a major legislative defeat.
YouGov found that 73% of Germans and 69% of Brits surveyed found it unacceptable that Musk was trying to influence politics in their nation.
An event near Zurich in mid-December at which two AfD politicians spoke was organized by the Swiss neo-Nazi group Junge Tat and attended by members of Blood & Honour.
Vance seemed to back the flagship policy of a party that has unsettled Germany’s Jews.
Since Musk bought the social network X, formerly Twitter, in 2022, his statements and associations with ideas and figures promoting antisemitic rhetoric have rattled Jewish communal watchdogs.
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