jean-luc melenchon holds his first rally. we will discuss this in detail after the break. >>> we are in countdown mode to the french election. and jean-luc melenchon held the largest rally over the weekend he is the opposite of the current president emmanuel macron and promised to tackle inflation and raise taxes on the wealthy. melenchon sits in third place according to the latest polling behind marine le pen let's get to the latest. the far left has used taxes, but hasn't been successful it may felt it was popular among the population give us a sense of what melenchon wants to enact with the targeting of the wealthy >> he has been getting a lot of the left vote which has been split. the socialist candidate is polling at 2%. melenchon is in the third run to be president and he is getting a bit of momentum in the poll. polling in third position behind marine le pen. and yesterday, he showed support in paris with the gathering and he is putting himself as the alternative to emmanuel macron he is saying that he is the one propos