It wasn't a sizzling conversation but the X owner's media clout – and the AFD's rising popularity - meant it still mattered. CGTN's Peter Oliver reports from Berlin.
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00:00probably easy to break it down into to three reasons why the world's richest
00:04man is concerning himself with federal elections here in germany as well as
00:08paying keen attention to parties in the united kingdom as well
00:12break it down to ideological reasons business reasons and personal
00:15connections ideologically he's gone for those
00:18political parties both in the united kingdom with reform uk
00:22and here in germany with the alternative for deutschland the afd
00:26um who put themselves across as uh defenders of free speech that want to
00:31remove government regulation uh want to halt the amount of immigration
00:36into countries and who uphold traditional family values
00:41both afd and reform would say that that's pretty much their raison d'etre
00:46uh business-wise elon musk has huge and
00:50of um operations from tesla starlink spacex and
00:55x the the social media platform in europe
00:58um particularly when it comes to germany he spoke at length about wanting to
01:02to be able to remove some of the red tape and the bureaucracy that exists
01:05here and on the personal level he he has a
01:08grandmother that's from the united kingdom which
01:10may explain his interest in that country and here in germany of course he does
01:13have the huge tesla plant um which is part of his business empire
01:17in brandenburg and he also spoke at length with alice vital about removal
01:21of um red tape the difficulties of doing business in germany
01:25we were expecting some real shocking revelations from this chat though
01:29it hasn't really materialized like that essentially it was 76 minutes just over
01:33an hour and 15 minutes of two people that certainly didn't seem to
01:36have any real uh connection any real spark one of the
01:40controversies that has come out of it though
01:42is alice vital used her chat to um to say that adolf hitler and the nazis
01:47were socialists and communists in her eyes even a cursory glance at
01:52the writings and speeches of hitler would dismiss that and it has been seen
01:56as being um disingenuous to the the socialists
01:59and communists of germany who were among the the first to be
02:03arrested and put into camps by the the nazi regime ultimately though it
02:07ended up being a 76 minute chat about the nazis about life on mars and
02:13about the existence of gods and it ended really rather abruptly um but yeah
02:18as for the why i think you'd have to ask elon musk himself but those
02:21fairly decent reasons why he'd be wanting to to get involved in german
02:25politics and european politics i can tell you though
02:28he isn't being that welcomed by many of the other parties