 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 67 turnout adrian people told me tonight they got really scared so they came out and what really helped as well was a deal between macron centrist and the left that if there was a three-way three-way race there were about 300 of them one of those parties would drop out so as not to split the anti-far-right vote