Elon Musk, founder and CEO of Tesla and Spacex, and owner of the X
The technology billionaire, who in recent months has maintained public conflicts with President Donald Trump, has announced on social networks that he will create “The Party of America.”
The suspense ended. Elon Muskthe richest person in the world and the largest political donor in the US, announced this Saturday on his X/Twitter that he will form a new political party, the “Party of America ”with the declared objective of dismantling what it claims to be the “unipartidal” system of republicans and democrats.
“When it comes to leading our country to bankruptcy with Waste and corruptionwe live in a single party systemnot in a democracy, ”wrote Musk.“ Today, the party of America is formed to return your freedom. ”
Until Saturday night had not yet been presented documentation for the creation of the new party, says the. In a separate post, Musk said that the America’s party will be active in the elections “next year.”
On Friday, Musk had asked his followers if a new political party should be created in the US. In the poll that accompanies the publication, 65% of the users answered “yes”.
Musk, until a few months ago ally near Donald TrumpIt has maintained one with the US President in recent weeks, from whom he left after the announcement of “What Trump has just approved in Congress – and that Tesla CEO considers a disgusting project.
According to The New York Times, in recent days Musk has talked to friends close to his plan to create a political party and what would be necessary to achieve it. The discussions have been more conceptual than pragmatic, says the source heard by the newspaper.
Even if Elon Musk has proven before that, if necessary, he is willing to use all its resources to act quickly and dramaticallyalso has a long history of not fulfilling promises.
The founder and CEO of Tesla and Spacex, who at the beginning of Trump’s current term helped the president to execute his cut of cuts in government funding, was indignant with the comprehensive bill of the president’s domestic policy.
Last month, on social networks, he called him a “”, adding that “would massively increase the budget deficit already gigantic ”and that“ the Congress is leading America to bankruptcy.”
For weeks, Musk implied that he would form a new political party If the legislation were approved, but had not explicitly declared its intention to do so until Saturday.
O bipartisan system has been a definite feature of modern American politics for decades, but Many moderate billionaires dream For a long time with the creation of a third party – which would radically change the political panorama of the US.
However, there are numerous barriers to the creation of a new political party that has indeed influenced US politics, notes NYT: strongly manipulated electoral circles, deep political polarization and rigid state electoral laws, some of which require costly and complicated qualification procedures – which are probably a Challenge even for Musk.
Musk donated almost 285 million euros to republican candidates in the 2024 elections, and funded the mobilization of votes in Donald Trump in the decisive states, but Recently failed the election of the Republican candidate which supported a place in the Supreme Court of Wisconsin – even after investing more than 19 million euros in the race.
On Friday, Musk wrote in the X that an initial strategy It could be supporting candidates from the America’s Party in just two or three races to the Senate and between eight and 10 races to Congress in next year’s interchange elections.
This strategy “would break the unipartid system“Through an” extremely concentrated force in a precise place on the battlefield, “says Musk.
In a very polarized political system, where the number of representatives of the two parties in the Senate and Congress It is always very balancedthe billionaire would not need to have a party that made him elect president to dramatically change US politics.
MUSK would have a minimum number of congressmen and senators to significantly alter the balancing between Republicans and Democrats.
