U.S. billionaire Elon Musk backed Germany's Alternative for Germany (AfD) in a guest opinion piece for Germany's Welt am Sonntag newspaper published online on Saturday that prompted the commentary editor to resign in protest.

In a guest column for the German newspaper Die Welt, Elon Musk has called on Germany to vote for the anti-immigration party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), calling it “the last flicker of hope for the country”.

Billionaire Elon Musk has renewed his call to Germans to vote for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in February's election, sparking a renewed controversy in Berlin. "The Alternative for Germany is the last spark of hope for this country,

Germany's domestic intelligence agency has classified the AfD at the national level as a suspected extremism case since 2021.

Only the AfD can save Germany,” Elon Musk wrote, referencing the far-right anti-immigrant and anti-Islam party in Europe’s largest country.

Musk’s tweet was promoting another tweet from Naomi Seibt a German climate change denier who rose to prominence as the anti-Greta Thunberg. Seibt has also promoted conspiracy theories and been accused of being antisemitic, according to the Guardian, a claim she denies.

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