Mujtaba Rahman is the head of Eurasia Group’s Europe practice. He posts at @Mij_Europe . Next week’s French municipal elections may be local in scope, but their implications are unmistakably national — and European. When French voters head to the polls to elect roughly 35,000 mayors across their villages, towns and major cities, they will offer up the clearest indication yet of the country’s political mood ahead of next year’s presidential election, which could both fundamentally reshape France