BERLIN, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Elon Musk urged Germans to vote for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) in an upcoming national election during a broadcast he hosted with the party’s leader on his social media platform on Thursday.

The world’s richest man has shown particular interest in Germany, Europe’s economic powerhouse, where he opened Tesla’s first European plant in 2022.

Musk introduced the AfD’s chancellor candidate Alice Weidel, whose party is second in polls but has almost no chance of forming a government due to other parties’ refusal to work with it, as “the leading candidate to run Germany.”