 It is a fascinating place to be politically ahead of Sunday's snap election here, an election that is billed as perhaps the most consequential in France for several decades. The main issues are the cost of living crisis and also immigration. So you have the political left, which is backed by the trade unions, also in favour of a bigger state, and the pro-business centrist party of the president, Emmanuel Macron, who seem to do pretty well in the city centres.