55m ago
09.18 GMT
Jubilant
AfD's Weidel hails historic result, says she got congratulations from Elon Musk
Kate
Connolly
Berlin
correspondent
Jubilant
Alice Weidel, and Tino Chrupalla, leaders of the AfD, speaking to the press in
Berlin just now, said it was high time the media stopped “pulling us through
the cocoa” – a reference to associating the party with fascism.
A
confident and beaming Weidel once again predicted the party would take over the
CDU in elections in the next few years, and would “bring order to Germany”. She
noted the party had won twice as many votes in eastern Germany, as the CDU,
securing 45 out of 48 available seats there.
Asked if
she had been contacted by Elon Musk following the AfD’s strong election result,
she said:
This
morning, when I turned on my phone, I saw I had received calls and messages
from the USA, including from Elon Musk with personal congratulations.
I will
telephone today – with whom I won’t tell you here and now because it’s covered
by a certain level of trust – but we’re in touch. We’re the power in Germany
that is internationally recognised. We’re in contact with all sides and that
includes the Trump administration.
Chrupalla
then jumped in to excitedly add that he too had received a large number of
congratulatory messages, including from “two German national players, two
former Bayern Munich players”.
Who
exactly, he did not say but the hunt will now surely be on to identify them.
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