The leader of the party said she received the call after the party known as the AfD finished second in national elections, by far the best showing in its history.

Musk has emerged as a fervent supporter of Alternative for Germany, a far-right, anti-immigrant party that is polling in second place ahead of Germany's parliamentary election.

Musk won AfD a massive new audience, and JD Vance added support. That brought the party outsized attention, but the impact in Germany was limited, data shows.

The leading candidate, Friedrich Merz, a conservative who has adopted many of the AfD’s hard-line positions on immigration, used his closing statement of the debate to promise his voters that he would never allow the AfD into his government. Under him, he said, the firewall would hold.

The AfD’s rise remains a significant concern in German politics, with mainstream parties working to prevent its integration into government. While figures like JD Vance and Elon Musk have expressed strong support for the party,

Elon Musk endorsed AfD, an anti-immigration party that just won the most support of any far-right party since World War II.

In spite of the Tesla CEO's best efforts, the AfD performed no better than had been expected when snap elections were called.

German far-right leader Alice Weidel said she missed a congratulatory call from tech billionaire Elon Musk after Sunday's election, after a campaign in which Musk threw his weight behind Weidel's Alternative for Germany (AfD).

When a young German anti-climate activist nicknamed the “anti-Greta Thunberg” began flattering tech billionaire Elon Musk on X, few could have foreseen it leading to the tech billionaire wholeheartedly endorsing Germany’s far-right.

Elon Musk may be able to control—to some extent—the American government. But on Sunday, German voters showed he does not control theirs. After polls closed Sunday in snap elec