Commentary: Rausch's first company car – Is the AfD going electric soon?
German car manufacturers are avoiding the AfD. Now, the newly elected President of the Saxony-Anhalt state parliament will probably soon be driving a vehicle that is a symbol of "green ideology" for his party.
The leader of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in Saxony-Anhalt, Tobias Rausch, has been having trouble finding a German car manufacturer to lease a service vehicle for him. BMW withdrew its leasing offer after its CEO, Milan Nedeljkovic, publicly criticized the AfD, calling right-wing populism and nationalism "poison" for Germany's economy.
As a result, Rausch may have to use a Tesla, an electric vehicle, despite the AfD's opposition to electric mobility, which it calls a "green ideology". The party views government incentives for electric vehicles as "ideologically blinded" coercive policy that harms Germany's industrial sector.
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