 withdraw their candidate and that they urged supporters of the left candidate to vote for the center and it seems most of those supporters did follow that line it's a sort of an old trick in in french elections one could say it's called uh it's sort of called a republican front this is what effectively kept marine le pen out of the presidency that marine le pen being the leader of the national rally party kept her out of the presidency in 2022 and in 2017 before that