 you know, the three parties all represented. If Macron's party did better than the left party, they agreed with the left party that the left should take their candidate, withdraw their candidate, and that they urged the supporters of the left candidate to vote for the centre. And it seems most of those supporters did follow that line. It's a sort of an old trick in French elections, one could say. It's sort of called a republican front. This is what effectively kept