Musk Blasted by Union, Scholz’s SPD Over German Politicking
- Head of IG Metall calls Tesla CEO’s comments ‘unacceptable’
- Party secretary general of Social Democrats also speaks out
Elon Musk with Alice Weidel, during the AfD party's general election campaign launch in Halle.
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Germany’s most powerful labor union and Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats slammed US billionaire Elon Musk’s increasingly fervent support for the right-wing Alternative for Germany party less than four weeks before snap elections.
Musk’s intervention in German politics is “unacceptable” and must be rejected, Christiane Benner, the head of the metalworkers’ union IG Metall, said Monday at a press conference in Frankfurt.