Yannick Jadot called for “a status of full autonomy and full exercise” for Corsica, Monday January 31 in front of the press. “You know, environmentalists are regionalists”, said the environmental candidate after a meeting in Bastia (Haute-Corse) with the autonomist president of the executive council, Gilles Simeoni. “Today there is a need to build a strong relationship, a peaceful relationship between the French State, France and Corsica, and this requires a status of full autonomy, full exercise.” Yannick Jadot qualified “extraordinary opportunity” the “quinquennium which is coming” and “the mandate which started at the level of the Collectivity” territorial.
Those are “five years, precisely, to build this statute, to negotiate it, to look at the skills that remain sovereign, the common skills, the exclusive skills that we must strengthen for the community of Corsica”, added Yannick Jadot. The candidate notably pointed the finger “a delay” on “infrastructure in Corsica”, with “major issues in terms of territorial continuity, (…) on the control of water, waste”. He also pointed out “the importance for all regions in France of having a dynamic tax system”, adding that this point should enter “in the negotiation of new skills”.
“There is a Corsican people who have a history, a language, a culture, a pride and which must also be recognized.”
Yannick Jadot, environmental candidate for the presidential electiontraveling to Bastia (Haute-Corse)
In mid-January, Yannick Jadot had already called for a rapprochement “without delay” in a Corsican prison of three prisoners sentenced for the assassination of the prefect Claude Erignac, in 1998, so that they can serve the rest of their sentence there. This claim is notably made by the elected nationalists of the island.
Could Gilles Simeoni support Yannick Jadot? “VSIt was not the objective of this morning’s meeting”, replied the latter to the media. “I do not think that in my capacity as President of the Executive Council of Corsica, I have to provide support or to engage my signature, I represent the Community of Corsica and I seek to defend the interests of Corsica, to take into account in the presidential debate”. Last June, Gilles Simeoni won the territorial elections with 40.6% of the votes cast and an absolute majority of 32 seats out of 63 in the Island’s Assembly.