The world’s richest person has heaped praise on the Alternative for Deutschland party in recent weeks ahead of the country’s upcoming election.

After facing backlash for gestures at Trump’s inauguration event and attempts to make Nazi-related puns on X, Elon Musk told supporters of Germany’s far-right AfD party there is “too much of a focus on past guilt.

Meanwhile, thousands of protesters turned out against the AfD across Germany as the European nation prepares to head to legislative elections.