The Deputy Freedoms and Territories of Haute-Corse considers that autonomy is “a historic phase to be created between the Republic and Corsica”.
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“Autonomy is not a stepping stone, it is a point of historical balance”, reacts Wednesday March 16 on franceinfo Jean-Félix Acquaviva, deputy Freedoms and Territories of Haute-Corse, on the occasion of the trip of Gérald Darmanin on the island to put an end to the tensions and the clashes in progress for two weeks. In a newspaper interview Corse-Morning, the interior minister said the government was ready “to go as far as autonomy” from Corsica.
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“This corresponds to a historic phase to be created between the Republic and Corsica”judges the deputy, for whom “the other way is the impasse, these are extremes that clash”. For Jean-Félix Acquaviva, the statute could allow the Assembly of Corsica to manage very specific issues on the island: “This is the case for land and real estate speculation. This is also the case for inheritance tax, which is an endemic problem, or even, for example, on the issue of the circular economy and waste.”
“It is up to the government to relegitimize Corsican democracy, which has been expressed through the ballot box”continues the deputy, after “the chaotic management of the file for four years, by doing denial, by having a vertical policy, by sending belligerent prefects. This explosion, this torrent of indignation, anger, emotion, this mobilization, were created by a denial of democracy for years.”