Shorouk Express
Elon Musk has taken to his social media platform to meddle in yet another country’s politics, this time focusing on Spain’s Vox party and its leader Santiago Abascal.
While simultaneously backing Germany’s hard-right AfD party and celebrating their result in Sunday’s elections, Musk has been doing something similar in Spain.
The leader of the new US Department of Government Efficiency retweeted a post on his social media network X in which US President Donald Trump appears in the recent CPAC conference saying: “To the leader of Spain’s Vox party Santiago Abascal, thank you Santiago, thank you very much. Great job you’re doing”.
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Musk’s retweet included the message “Vox will win the next election”.
Abascal took part on the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) for a second consecutive year, which was also attended by other European far-right party leaders.
He received similar the praise from Trump after the previous CPAC speech and the Vox leader has repeatedly sang the praises of the US leader, even arguing the tariffs he has imposed on countries like Spain are justified.
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When asked about X a few days earlier, Abascal said “I have had the opportunity to thank Elon Musk for having returned freedom to this social network. The end of woke censorship is a historic conquest of freedoms”.
Abascal also recently referred to Argentine President Javier Milei as “a titan” after he was accused of promoting a cryptocurrency that crashed and affected more than 40,000 people with losses of more than $4 billion.
Musk, the owner of Tesla and SpaceX has been openly criticised for spreading lies and disinformation to his 218.6 million followers on X.
At the beginning of January, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said “”The international far-right that we have been opposing in Spain for years, led in this case by the richest man on the planet, openly attacks our institutions, incites hatred and openly supports the heirs of Nazism in Germany”, referring to Musk without actually naming him.
More recently French President Emmanuel Macron has accused him of meddling in European elections, while UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he was perpetuating “lies and misinformation”.
The Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre also gave his opinion of the tech billionaire. “I find it worrying that a man with enormous access to social media and huge economic resources involves himself so directly in the internal affairs of other countries,” he told public broadcaster NRK.
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Spain’s far-right Vox party currently ranks third in the country with 13.3 percent of the vote, according to the latest poll by Spain’s National Research Council.
This still puts them way behind the conservative centre-right Popular Party and the ruling Socialist PSOE Party headed by Sánchez.
Even though support has been rising for Vox since the last election in 2023, it is less than half than the number of voters who support Spain’s two largest parties.
As things stand currently, it would be very difficult for Elon Musk’s ‘prediction’ to be fulfilled in the next general election in Spain in 2027.
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