 dashed any hopes he might have had that the results of the European elections, in other words, a big victory for the national rally, was going to be overturned when people realized, oh, this is actually our government we're voting for. It's our parliament. It's our legislature. We need to be more serious now. He thought that they'd become, in his words, more sensible, more reasonable and turn away from the extremes, both right and left.