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Musk sparks uproar in Germany over far-right support

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Berlin | Elon Musk caused uproar after backing Germany’s far-right party in a major newspaper ahead of key parliamentary elections in the Western European country, leading to the resignation of the paper’s opinion editor in protest.

Germany is to vote in an early election on February 23 after Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s three-party governing coalition collapsed in December in a dispute over how to revitalise the country’s stagnant economy.

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