"She is France's last hope." It was with this message posted on X on Wednesday 15 July that Elon Musk expressed his support for Marine Le Pen, the National Rally (RN) candidate in the 2027 presidential election.
The owner of Tesla, SpaceX and the social network X was responding to a post claiming that voting intentions for the RN parliamentary group leader "have skyrocketed" in recent weeks.
In April 2025, Elon Musk had already voiced his support for Marine Le Pen when she was initially sentenced to five years of ineligibility for the misuse of public funds in the case of the National Front (FN) European parliamentary assistants.
"I hope and I encourage [Marine] Le Pen to overcome this persecution and to stand in the next presidential election", he wrote at the time on X.
On 7 July, Marine Le Pen was convicted and sentenced to three years in prison, two of them suspended and one to be served under arrangements, as well as a 45‑month ban from holding elected office, 30 months of which were suspended. This was a ruling on appeal that allows her to remain eligible to run for president.
