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.

Alice Weidel, missed a late-night congratulatory call from American billionaire Elon Musk following her party's success in the Bundestag elections. When she checked her phone in the morning, she saw "missed calls in the night from the United States.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán was also pleased to see the Alternative for Germany’s vote share growing.

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.

Elon Musk has continued his public association with Germany’s far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party, sending a congratulatory post on X to the party’s co-chair Alice Weidel following the election results last night in Germany.

The leader of Alternative for Germany (AfD) has said it will be the largest party in Germany by the next election after the far-Right movement finished second to the mainstream conservatives in Sunday’s federal election.

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

Alice Weidel, leader of Alternative for Germany (AfD), missed a late-night congratulatory call from American billionaire Elon Musk after her party's success in the Bundestag elections. When she checked her phone in the morning,

UK group Everyone Hates Elon went viral for posting parody ads for Tesla's "Swasticar" with an image of Musk making a Nazi salute after the tech billionaire helped Germany's far-right party become the second-most powerful in the nation.