The German government accused U.S. billionaire Elon Musk on Monday of trying to influence its election due in February with articles supporting the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, even though it suggested they amounted to “nonsense.

In his opinion piece, Musk called the AfD "the last spark of hope" for Germany and argued in favor of the party's positions on energy, economic recovery and migration, saying they reflect "the principles that made Tesla and SpaceX successful," according to a Euronews translation.

The German government has sought to downplay tech entrepreneur Elon Musk's endorsing of the far-right Alternative for Germany, or AfD, party.

What becomes interesting now is that though you had this sort of election due to instability in a coalition that really just couldn't get along, you seem to have a situation where you're obviously going to have to have another coalition governing in the sort of country and the sort of difficulty that you had this time around for the mainstream parties is that the AfD,

Tech entrepreneur 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.

German officials have widely condemned Elon Musk’s attempts to meddle in the upcoming German elections by boosting the far-right AfD party.