 to be the next prime minister but it didn't happen they were beaten by this hastily cobbled together leftist coalition and with record voter turnout people told me tonight sixty-seven percent turnout Adrienne people told me tonight they got really scared so they came out and what really helped as well was a deal between macron centrists and the left that if there was a three-way race there were about three hundred of them one of those parties would drop out so as not to split the anti-far-right vote