Musk, who is also the owner of Tesla and SpaceX, has regularly weighed in on European politics via social media, offering support to right-wing and far-right groups and candidates.
In May, he claimed Rupert Lowe’s Restore Britain was the only party that could “save Britain,” and he has shared posts from British far-right activist Tommy Robinson on several occasions.
When it comes to French politics, however, Musk was yet to throw his weight behind a particular candidate.
After meeting with President Emmanuel Macron in 2022, Musk said he was “honored” to have spoken with the French leader, and he endorsed Macron’s unpopular 2023 decision to raise the minimum retirement age in France, which Le Pen is promising to roll back.
But Musk’s relationship with France also has a legal element. French police have opened a criminal investigation into X’s Grok AI chatbot over the proliferation of sexually explicit deepfakes and past antisemitic responses. X’s offices in Paris were raided in February, and Musk was summoned for an interview by French prosecutors in April, but he did not show up.