By Musa Mdluli

MBABANE:Billionaire Elon Musk has followed through on his pledge to create a new political party in the United States(US) after President Donald Trump signed his controversial budget legislation, the so-called “One Big, Beautiful Bill”, into law”, Aljazeera reported on Sunday.

“Musk in a post on X on Saturday declared the formation of the “America Party“, to “give back” the people of the US their freedom and challenge what he called the nation’s “one-party system”.He cited a poll, uploaded on Friday-the US’s Independence Day-in which he asked whether respondents “want independence from the two-party (some would say uniparty) system” that has dominated US politics for some two centuries.The yes-or-no survey earned more than 1.2 million responses”, reads the report in part.