 it's not over yet there is another round of voting but this first round has certainly dashed any hopes he might have had that the results of the european elections another was 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