Melenchon says he will seek presidency for fourth time with President Macron term-limited and right’s Le Pen facing ban.

Jean-Luc Melenchon, the leading politician in France’s left-wing Unbowed party, says he will run in next year’s presidential election, setting up a potential showdown with centrist and right-wing rivals.

“Yes, I am a candidate,” the 74-year-old told TF1 TV on Sunday.

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It is Melenchon’s fourth presidential bid; he also ran in 2012, 2017 and 2022, when he came third behind far-right leader Marine Le Pen and French President Emmanuel Macron, who made it to the second round of voting.

Melenchon has been growing his share of the vote with each campaign.

In 2012, he had only 11 percent support, but in the last…