european alliances. and the european people's party is a sort of centre right christian democrat party. um, that has for a long time been the biggest party in the european parliament. then there's the sthe third biggest party. but what it's looking like is that there's a chance for the ecr group, which is the party that the british conservatives actually started to leave. the more traditional european people's party, the centre right group. that group is taking in some figures, some offshoots of some figures, some offshoots of some of france's quite hard right, uh, politics, friends of marine le pen, her niece, is actually going into that party as well. and that is not within what's called the cordon sanitaire , which is the part the sanitaire, which is the part the groups of the parties will not work with the likes of marine le pen's group. they will not work with the afd, but they will work with the afd, but they will work with the afd, but they will work with the ecr. so if that group does very well , it could then does very well, it could then actually wield some significant power within european politics. eu politics. anyway, after june's elections . june's elections. >> excelle