French far-left leader Jean-Luc Melenchon said on Sunday he would run for president in 2022 if he received enough public support for what would be his third bid for the Elysee Palace. Melenchon, a spearhead of the opposition against French President Emmanuel Macron’s economic policies and a supporter of the “yellow vest” anti-government protests, won an unprecedented 19.5% in the first round of the 2017 presidential election. “We have to turn on a light at the end of the tunnel for people, we can do things differently,” Melenchon said on television channel TF1’s evening news. “I am ready and I offer my candidacy,” he said, adding he would do so only if 150,000 people signed up in favour in an online petition. The left-wing firebrand, who also ran for president in 2012, has been a frequent critic of the government’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak in France, where deaths topped 40,000 on Saturday. A Paris suburb court handed him a suspended three-month prison term and a 8,000 euros ($9,509) fine in December 2019 for intimidating officials who were investigating him over possible funding irregularities.
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