Emmanuel Macron says he is ready to include changes in his constitutional reform project “after the summer”

Emmanuel Macron said, Friday, February 24, to the Corsican elected officials, that he had no “no taboo” nor of “predetermined solution” on the institutional future of Corsica, and that he was ready to include any changes in his plan to reform the Constitution “after summer”according to the Elysee.

During the resumption of the discussions to which he invited himself at the Ministry of the Interior in Paris, the Head of State said he was open to all the solutions mentioned by the elected officials, from autonomy to differentiation, however reiterating its two “red lines”, namely the maintenance of “Corsica in the Republic” And “the refusal to create two categories of citizens”, explained an adviser. These consultations, which must address the thorny question of the potential autonomy of Corsica, were officially launched in July 2022.

A symbolic dimension

According to the Elysée, the negotiators will have to “to formulate a proposal which could be part of the constitutional reform project that the President of the Republic wishes to carry out after next summer” to be discussed in “2023-2024”. “A review clause between the President, the Minister of the Interior and the elected officials” has been fixed “for before summer” in order to “to take stock” on “offers”.

Emmanuel Macron’s entourage, who insisted on the “very strong dimension of the symbol” of his surprise participation in this meeting, assured that this “important announcement” had been “very well received by the participants”. According to the Presidency, the Head of State has also “remembered that there was a common destiny which was to be written, built, reconstructed with Corsica”. He also felt that everyone should do “one step towards each other” because there will be “never an ideal path” and “Not everyone will ever be 100% satisfied”.