Left-wing voter support jumps for former French PM Valls: poll

Left-leaning voter support for former French prime minister Manuel Valls has surged since he announced he was seeking the Socialist nomination for the presidential election next spring, a poll showed on Wednesday. Valls, a law-and-order man whose pro-business stance has occasionally irked left-wingers, resigned as head of President Francois Hollande's government on Tuesday to run in their party's primary election in late January.. Hollande, France's most unpopular president to date, announced la