“She is the last hope of France,” he wrote on his social network “X” with 240 million followers, sharing her photo.
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E. Musk has previously shown favor to M. Le Pen, but this seems to be the first time he has done so officially since her return to the race against centrist President Emmanuel Macron in next year’s election.
He has also expressed support for Germany’s far-right party “AfD” and Romania’s far-right candidate Calin Georgescu.
France’s Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot urged E. Musk to reconsider his position.
“As the French say: only fools do not change their minds,” he wrote.
The anti-immigration party “National Rally” (RN), led by M. Le Pen, hopes for the best chance to win the country’s top post after 10 years of E. Macron’s rule.
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She launched her fourth presidential campaign earlier this month, just hours after the appellate court upheld the verdict regarding the misappropriation of European Parliament funds.
By appellate order, she was given a 15-month ban from holding office – this period has already been served – and a one-year prison sentence, served with electronic monitoring, but she decided to buy time by appealing the verdict to the highest court in France.
Last year, E. Musk shared a statement by US President Donald Trump claiming that the case against M. Le Pen is a “witch hunt” – these comments were called “interference” by Paris.
“Freedom for M. Le Pen!” wrote E. Musk.
Last month, E. Musk became the world’s first trillionaire after a surge in SpaceX shares debuted on Wall Street. However, according to Forbes, his fortune later fell below $900 billion (about €786 billion).
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