Elon Musk again came out in support of AfD, Germany's far-right party, in an op-ed published in a major German newspaper. Germany is holding elections in February.

Germany is to vote on Feb. 23 after Chancellor Olaf Scholz's three-party governing coalition collapsed in a dispute over the stagnant economy.

In May, France’s far-right party led by Marine Le Pen split from the AfD in its European Parliament coalition after the German party’s top candidate, Maximilian Krah, said that a person was “not automatically a criminal” just because they had been a member of the SS, Adolph Hitler’s paramilitary organization.