 backed by the trade unions, also in favor of a bigger state, and the pro-business centrist party of the president, Emmanuel Macron, who seemed to do pretty well in the city centers. But just a few minutes' drive from the center of cities here, the suburbs, commuter towns, villages in this region voted overwhelmingly for the anti-immigration far-right national rally in recent European elections. And that is the party which is ahead nationally in opinion polls and so could be in a position