Germany's far-right party's approval rating is at a one-year high, and 'aligned coalition excluding the far right' is expected to be difficult.

Tesla Inc TSLA CEO Elon Musk's publicly backed far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) approval rating reached its highest level in a year, more than a month before the general election.

According to the weekly Beltamzontak on the 11th local time, a poll by pollster INSA from the 6th to the 10th of this month showed that the German Alternative Party had 22%, second only to the moderate conservative Christian Democratic Party (CDU) and the Christian Socialist Party (CSU) coalition (30%).

The party's approval rating jumped 2% in a week to its highest level since January last year.

The gap in approval ratings between the center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD, 16 percent) and the German Alternative Party, which includes Prime Minister Olaf Scholz, widened to 6 percent. The Green Party, which is forming a temporary minority coalition with the SPD, was still in fourth place with a 13% approval rating.

Musk, who was selected as co-head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in the next U.S. government, published a contribution in support of AfD in a German weekly magazine last month, and on the 9th, he was bold and urged to vote for AfD with AfD co-chairman Alis Weidel.

"It will also be interesting to observe the effect of the talks in next week's polls," commented Beltamzontak's sister newspaper Daily Belt, which was criticized for publishing Musk's contribution.

The AfD unanimously elected Weidel co-chairmen as prime minister candidates at the party convention on the 11th.

It is the first time the AfD has nominated its own prime ministerial candidate in the general election since its founding in 2013.

In his acceptance speech, Weidel said he would close the border within 100 days of his presidency and repatriate migrants on a large scale.

He also said he would remove all wind turbines and reconnect the blown-up Nord Stream gas pipeline to draw Russian natural gas.

With other parties refusing to form a coalition government with the AfD, it is unlikely that Mr. Weidel will rise to the prime minister's post.

However, with AfD approval ratings soaring recently, there are also concerns that the formation of a coalition excluding far-right parties, like Austria, will face difficulties.

Austria's centrist conservative National Party (VP) and center-left Social Democratic Party (SP?) tried to form a coalition without the far-right Liberal Party (FP), which rose to the top party with 28.9% of the vote in last September's general election, but it recently fell through.

Germany is also unlikely to have a majority government with only two parties, excluding the AfD, according to its recent approval rating.