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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has called US billionaire's Elon Musk backing of a rival party in the country’s upcoming election “disgusting.” 

The SpaceX and Tesla founder has endorsed the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) ahead of next month’s parliamentary vote. Appearing via video link at the party’s rally over the weekend, Musk urged Germans to reject the notion of generational guilt.

“I disagree completely with Elon Musk and what he is doing,” Scholz told reporters, in English, on the sidelines of a campaign event in Berlin on Tuesday evening.

“We are very happy that the United States liberated our country and helped us to become a democracy again,” he added. “And this is why I am so angry about Elon Musk intervening for the far right and Elon Musk also not acting adequately to this killing of so many Jews and other people in Europe done by Germans in the past. This is the historic responsibility we will continue to take in the future as well.”

“And this is really disgusting, and it is not good for the democratic development in the European Union,”the head of the Social Democrats concluded.

Scholz has governed Germany since 2021 in a ‘traffic light’ coalition with the Free Democrats and the Die Linke/Green Party. The arrangement collapsed in November due to disagreements over economic policy, resulting in a snap election scheduled for February 23.

Musk has long criticized Scholz as a “fool” and endorsed AfD’s Alice Weidel for chancellor. Last Saturday, he tuned into the AfD rally in Halle, addressing the crowd of about 4,500 people on immigration and culture.

“It’s good to be proud of German culture, German values, and not to lose that in some sort of multiculturalism that dilutes everything,” Musk said. “I do not say it lightly when I think the future of civilization could hang on this election.”

He also argued that “children should not be guilty of the sins of their parents, let alone their great grandparents,” adding, “There is too much focus on past guilt, and we need to move beyond that.”

Modern Germany has embraced the notion of historical guilt for the Second World War and the Holocaust, with mainstream politicians insisting that any displays of national pride or nationalism amount to flirting with Nazism.

Scholz’s SPD and its allies have repeatedly tarred AfD as ‘Nazi’ while stopping short of outright banning the party as extremist.

https://www.rt.com/news/611847-scholz-musk-afd-disgusting/

 

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         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

in don's footsteps.....

Germany: Mass protests after far-right AfD helps CDU/CSU

A non-binding motion to restrict immigration has sparked outrage after citizens said the conservative CDU/CSU broke a promise not to work with the far-right AfD. Protesters in Berlin gathered outside CDU headquarters.

 

Thousands of demonstrators gathered in Germany on Thursday to protest the conservative Christian Democratic Union and Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) parties.

The demonstrations came one day after chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz worked with the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) to push draft anti-immigration legislation through the lower house of Germany's parliament, the Bundestag.

Police in Berlin estimated the crowd size at CDU headquarters to be around 6,000, more than the 4,000 that were expected but less than the 13,000 organizers claimed were there.

Organizers accuse Merz of 'making AfD extremism socially acceptable' 

Wednesday's vote was harshly criticized by Chancellor Olaf Scholz of the center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD), the Greens, and numerous church and civil society groups as a breach of the post-war German taboo against cooperation with extremist parties.  

Until now, all of Germany's major parties have abided by the custom, having taken to heart the lesson of the Nazis' rise to power via democratic structures. The business-friendly FDP also voted with Merz.

The alliance "Together Against the Right" called for Thursday's protest under the motto, "No Cooperation With the AfD." 

Protest co-organizer Carolin Moser, for instance, accused Merz and the CDU/CSU of making the "AfD's right-wing extremism socially acceptable."

Earlier action prompts police investigation

As a precaution, employees at CDU party headquarters were told to go home early on Thursday, before the evening protest. 

Security services had reportedly warned that safe exit from the building could not be guaranteed later, though police described the atmosphere at the event as "peaceful."

Earlier in the day, a group of around 30-to-50 demonstrators forced their way into a CDU district office in the western Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, where individuals calling themselves the "Resistance" alliance demanded that the party stop all cooperation with the AfD.

The disturbance lasted for about an hour, during which time furniture was reportedly vandalized but in which no one was injured.

Police, who have opened an investigation into whether the gathering violated right of assembly laws, say they filed three reports on property damage and trespassing charges.

 Demonstrators crash Merz rally in Dresden

Thousands of demonstrators also gathered in the eastern German city of Dresden to voice their anger. Merz was in the city for a campaign rally ahead of Germany's upcoming February 23 election.

Protesters marched through the streets of the city chanting, "Shame On You!" and "Friedrich Merz is a security risk for our democracy."

For his part, Merz demanded Social Democrat and Green Party leaders, "call for moderation, for restraint. And for us in the political center of our country to reach agreement on the key issues that we have to discuss and decide together." 

The opposition leader said, "part of our freedom is the right to demonstrate, but those who are blocking trams, damaging CDU district offices and paralyzing the (CDU headquarters at) Adenauer House in Berlin are overdoing it."

https://www.dw.com/en/germany-mass-protests-after-far-right-afd-helps-cdu-csu/a-71464257

 

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