It’s not “not yet a victory either for me or for the Corsican people”warns Wednesday March 16 on franceinfo Gilles Simeoni, president of the executive council of the Corsica community, after the interview with the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin, in Corsica Morningensuring that the executive says it is ready to consider a form of autonomy for Corsica. A strong statement made on the eve of a two-day visit to the Island of Beauty and in a context of high tension. Violent clashes have opposed the police to young activists since the attack on independence activist Yvan Colonna on March 2 in Arles prison.
Gilles Simeoni considers “important” than “the Minister of the Interior, in the name of the Prime Minister, and probably of the President of the Republic, says today publicly that the government and the State are ready to enter into a historic discussion”.
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With this process of autonomy “regular skills” would stay “in the domain of the state” while certain powers would be transferred “by right to the community of Corsica, which will exercise real normative power, of a legislative nature”. This “field of competence remains to be discussed once the principle has been definitively validated”, says Gilles Simeoni. But the president of the executive council of the community of Corsica quotes however “taxation”, “policy against land speculation” or “certain economic development policies”.
“What we want is to build an emancipated, democratic, responsible Corsican society in a new bond of trust with the State and with the Republic.”
Gilles Simeoni, president of the executive council of the community of Corsicaat franceinfo
Gilles Simeoni believes that there are currently “a constitutional problem: The fundamental problem is that everyone knows that there is a Corsican people with its community, its language, its culture, its relationship to its land”corn “we can’t say it and recognize it”, he explains. For the autonomist president of the executive council of the community of Corsica, “we have to invent a legal and political change that also respects the fundamental principles of the French Republic”.