two of germany's big political parties, olof scholz's social democrats and far right alternative for confirmed candidates over the weekend ahead of next month's federal elections. the two parties going into the election campaign with very different momentum. let's discuss this with annette. it seems we are one step closer to figuring out what an happen in this election. what was the main message from these two opposing political parties over the weekend? >> reporter: it couldn't be more different because, of course, olof scholz is entering the election campaign with one huge disadvantage. he is also the chancellor of this very unpopular still existing government into the new election and, of course, he had to address that as well a little bit during his speech at the party convention which made him the official candidate for chancellory as well. let's listen in to what he had to say and understand why the last three years were so difficult and also made him such an unpopular candidate now. >> translator: it has been a recognizing exhausting three years. we witnessed this first rand.

. >>> olof scholz urged people not to be influenced by social media.olz said the only german citizens have the power to decide where the country goes from here. scholz's comments come after his spokesperson accused elon musk of attempting to influence the february election following his endorsement of the german far-right party afd on x. annette is joining us with more. happy ew year. i would like to understand how unusual this actually is for german politics having a ceo of an american company actually making comments about the upcoming election. >> reporter: it's very unusual and i think the most unusual is this ceo is actually advocating the afd, alternative for germany, of course, the populist right-wing party in the country, is endorsed by elon musk. i guess this is the most unusual thing. that is also created that uproar or public uproar in the country. i guess it is a first that someone outside of country, a ceo, published an op-ed in the newspaper endorsing the populist afd as the only way forward for the country. scholz has actually alluded to

musk received pushback from olof scholz for his interference in german politics ahead of next month'sn for more on musk's new interests in german politics and whether there's anything european leaders can do to prevent it, head online to cnbc.com. >>> as we approach the end of the show, here are the four things to get you up to date for the trading day. u.s. equity markets are closed to honor former president jimmy carter government bonds are amid a selloff in the biggest fixed income markets microsoft has confirmed to cnbc it will carry out perform-based job cuts we will hear from a slew of fmoc officials starting with philadelphia fed president patrick harker minutes released on wednesday show officials concerned about inflation. >>> elsewhere, president joe biden is looking for export hips days before leaving office that's according to bloomberg which says the president's plan would extend to most of the world with only a small number of u.s. allies maintaining total access to u.s. made chips. in a statement, nvidia said the report proposal would threaten u.s. leadership and econom

you heard different politicians like olof scholz that voters shouldn't pay attention to what elon musks saying in this context. ultimately, do you think he can sway voters in germany to support afd? >> it is quite interesting you ask that, silvia, the polls have been quite static the last couple of weeks and i think we will start seeing movement because the holidays are now behind us and the campaigns are going to start in earnest. party officials met on the conservative side last weekend and the spd and afd and bsw are meeting this weekend. party platforms will be unveiled. i think we're going to start seeing more movement now within the polls. for now, the conservatives are in the front, but the afd is solidly at 20% even though the likely chancellor candidate mertz vowed when he took over the party that he would have support of the afd and that just has not happened. i think in the next couple weeks, we will see more movement. according to the poll, three fourths of german voters are not necessarily amused by elon musk's involvement in recommending the afd as the party for change in