Hollande worried about extreme left candidate's progress in polls

Francois Hollande is increasingly worried about the continued rise of the extreme left presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Le Figaro reports. The paper quotes a Sunday LH2-Yahoo poll according to which Mélenchon for the first time comes in third with 15% in the election's first round on April 22 with the extreme right candidate Marine Le Pen getting only 13.5%. Hollande himself would come in first with 28.5% ahead of Nicolas Sarkozy with 27%. Mélenchon is proposing a significant rise of the French minimum salary and he warns of further austerity measures in France. Arnaud Montebourg, who came in third in the Socialist's presidential primaries with anti-globalization and anti-German comments, told Journal de Dimanche that there was plenty of margin of manoeuvre for negotiations between the Socialists and Mélenchon. Another poll done by Journal de Dimanche has the following results for the first round: Sarkozy 28.5%, Hollande 27%, Le Pen 16% and Mélenchon 13.5%.