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Gerald Darmanin expected to speak in Corsica about autonomy, but not only

Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin heads to Corsica on Wednesday and Thursday, where nationalists are eagerly awaiting his position on the island’s potential autonomy, even if mayors also hope for progress on water, waste and urban planning. “In the last visit, Gerald Darmanin must meet, as of 4:30 p.m., with the head of the independent executive, Gilles Simeone, before participating, in Ajaccio, in the general assembly of the island’s mayors. “We expect a lot from this visit,” he explains. The president of the Association of Mayors of Haute-Corse, Ange-Pierre Vivoni, told AFP that he was relying on “the same program of the meeting that was planned for October 2022 and which did not take place, that is, talking about water, sanitation, household waste, city planning and of course self-government.” But “the issue of autonomy is not a major issue for mayors,” recalling that “80% of mayors in Corsica do not have a title” and “95% of municipalities have union lists” that bring together elected officials from the right and left and nationalists who “all have A different opinion” on the subject. However, the topic should be present everywhere on Wednesday evening during the Minister’s dinner with the heads of the country’s political groups. The Corsica Assembly, on Thursday morning, will have breakfast with the Mayor of Ajaccio Stefan Sbragia before meeting Gil Simeone at 9:30 a.m. for a second interview. – Constitutional reform – At the beginning of September, Gil Simeone admitted during a meeting that his Femu a Corsica party does not know what the state wants to move towards in terms of reviewing the constitution in relation to the island, while he believes that “the next moments will be of Among the most important moments in the history of Corsica. This trip comes at a time when the Corsican Assembly failed at the beginning of July to agree on a single project for the autonomy of this island with a population of 340 thousand people, which brings together the entire political spectrum. At the end of two days From the extraordinary session, the elected islanders had in fact transmitted to the government and President Emmanuel Macron two projects, one from the semi-united nationalists and the other from the right-wing opposition. At the end of February, during the resumption of discussions on the future of institutions on the island, at a meeting, Emmanuel Macron had reiterated six months ago that he was ready to include possible developments in his project for constitutional reform, and it was up to Corsica’s elected officials and the Ministry of the Interior to submit a “proposal to him” (. ..) before July. 14″. He also indicated his red lines: keeping Corsica in the Republic and rejecting the creation of two classes of citizens. The text of the Nationalists, adopted by the Corsican Assembly where they hold 46 seats out of 63, demands “legal recognition of the Republic.” The Corsican People, “State of Participation ‘official status of the Corsican language’ and recognition of ‘the connection between the Corsican people and their land’ through ‘resident status’. This text deals with the main lines of Gilles Simone’s report on his vision of autonomy for Corsica, i.e. legislative authority in all areas of the Corsican Assembly, except those relating to sovereign powers. The second text, from the opposition of the right-wing minority, calls for a simple “power of adaptation” of French laws according to Corsican characteristics, without an independent administration of education and health and without the transfer of taxes. For Ange-Pierre Vivoni, “With regard to autonomy, if there are declarations, it will be the President of the Republic who will make them.” A president who was invited by the mayors to go to Corsica, “like his predecessors,” to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the island, and it is possible that he will make the trip at the end of the month, according to several sources familiar with the matter. On 2 March 2022, independence activist Ivan Colonna, who was serving a life sentence for the 1998 assassination of Governor Irignac in Ajaccio, sparked violent demonstrations in Corsica, culminating in riots on 13 March. March in Bastia, with 102 injured, including 77 police officers. The Minister of the Interior, whom presidential candidate Macron sent to Corsica to calm the situation, opened the possibility of holding discussions that might “reach the point of autonomy.”