Musk agrees with MEP's inaccurate post about EU's power to nullify election results

The tech billionaire Elon Musk's latest post on X is likely to further anger European leaders who have already accused him of using his reach on the social platform to interfere in national debates.

On Saturday, the Hungarian MEP András László, a member of the ruling Fidesz party, took to X to complain about what he perceived to be double standards in who can donate funds to European NGOs and who is entitled to express an opinion.

"When 10 million USD was illegally channelled to the Hungarian left for their 2022 election campaign, elites in Brussels stayed silent. When the US embassy in Budapest started distributing funding to left-wing media, elites in Brussels stayed silent. When the Hungarian parliament adopted a sovereignty protection law to prevent such further interference, the European Commission sued Hungary," he wrote.

"Now that there is another billionaire, Elon Musk, who dares to merely voice his opinion on European politics in favour of one political side or another, so-called liberal elites want to cancel democracy if they won't like the outcome of elections. And they speak candidaly about the fact that this is exactly what they have recently done in Romania."

Musk reposted László's comments to his 212 million followers, saying only "Exactly".

The remarks about Romania stem from a misunderstanding earlier the same day which led to a war of words between Musk and the former European Commissioner for Digital Affairs, Thierry Breton.

In a television interview with French broadcaster BFMTV/RMC, Breton was discussing a potential election win for Germany's far-right AfD party in February's snap vote.

Part of that interview was then posted to X by the current affairs account Visegrád 24, which has in the past shared