text:  All in all, this gamble did not really play out the way he wanted to, probably. No, well, everyone's trying to spin it, of course, all the different parties. And we heard earlier on in the program from a government minister saying, well, yes, three weeks ago, everyone was saying that our centrist bloc was going to completely collapse. We've held not firm, but a lot firmer than most people expected. Can they take some heart from that, or is that simply spin?