laura marlowe, the paris correspondent of the irish times, from san rami, the performance is paul taylor contributing editor of politico and senior fellow at the friends of europe. think tank a warm welcome to you will laura, i'm gonna start with you mccomb claims that the way his prime minister rammed this legislation through without it going to a vote was perfectly democratic. how can that be? how does it work? i democratic my i, i, it's not democratic because i, it says very, very important societal issue and it should have been voted on. and i have spoken to many, many people who said that they supported my call up to that point. but then you cannot ram legislation like this through the national assembly without a vote. now, his rationale and the rationale also used by the prime minister, is that the, what they call it 49.3. that's the article of the constitution, the mechanism that was used to pass it without a vote that led to to know confidence motions which were both defeated on monday, last monday, the 20th of march. and when a no confidence motion fails, then the legislation th