Melenchon, France's failed hard-left presidential candidate

Paris (AFP) – Jean-Luc Melenchon, who crashed out of France’s unpredictable presidential election Sunday, is a fiery Communist-backed eurosceptic who had vowed to return “power to the people”.
Melenchon had enjoyed a late surge ahead of the first-round vote in an election marked by widespread disillusionment with the political class.
But initial projections put the head of La France Insoumise (France Unbowed) trailing in fourth place behind far-right leader Marine Le Pen