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00:00time up for the press here but as you can see most of the party goers have
00:04already left the scene behind me it's pretty empty there are still some people
00:09across at the bar I should add but they're asking us to wrap up and and I
00:14don't think this is going to continue late into the night because this has
00:18been a disappointing evening for them no matter how they try and dress it up we
00:23should add that Marine Le Pen has came in very quickly to the room to great
00:28cheers of support from her party members and but to the press she had to answer
00:34questions about how disappointed she was and she said that she wasn't
00:38disappointed because the RN had managed to increase its number of MPs in the
00:45French Parliament according to these exit polls and but she was very much
00:48trying to see the bright side of things there asked repeatedly whether she would
00:53be president in 2027 she didn't answer directly but she insisted we will
00:58continue and she called this alliance of the center and the left she called it
01:04completely incoherent and predicted it would collapse very quickly so there was
01:09a certain amount of bitterness in her speech similar to the business we saw
01:13from Jordan Bardella and among the supporters here shock surprise
01:18disappointment and anger that they feel that the will of the French people
01:22according to them has been blocked by this alliance and they say that line
01:26simply can't hold. Ana Navarro-Pedro made a good point Catherine a moment ago and so did Pierre-Jérôme Anan talking about how they felt the
01:36national rally had the right or Jordan Bardella said they felt they were
01:39beaten by the system and actually with that that could actually bring out a
01:42momentum of I've got a victim mentality to which other people you know they can
01:47play on that do you get that sense within the room that could be a
01:50strategy absolutely I think that's already emerging as a strategy from
01:57what party leaders and from what people here in the room have been telling me
02:01they say they've been victims of the political system of the political elite
02:05so it plays right into their hands they say that no matter how much public
02:09support they have and they did have the votes of millions of French people that
02:13they are being beaten by parties coming together in behind closed doors and the
02:18corridors of power and making deals and they say that the French people won't
02:22put up with that so you can see this attack line that's going to be coming
02:25out it is already coming out but expect to hear a lot more of that