Territorial elections have indeed started in Corsica.
There will be no departmental, since the region and the departments merged in 2018. The DVD mayor of Ajaccio, Laurent Marcangeli, who was the guest of the “Talk Le Figaro” on Friday, will face Gilles Simeoni, l current president of the Corsican executive council.
If, for five years that they have been in power, the nationalists have opposed the government, the management of the crisis is no exception, far from it.
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Reelected in the first round in the municipal elections, Laurent Marcangeli does not want to argue.
"Corsica needs something other than arm wrestling, it is counterproductive"
.
As proof, he welcomes on the one hand the catching up of the vaccination campaign and on the other, the effectiveness of the "Green Pass", demanded by the nationalists, consisting of presenting a negative PCR test before accessing the island. .
"It works,
admits the councilor,
the epidemic is under control, the health services are not overwhelmed and the circulation of the virus is weak at the moment."
On the other hand, the economic situation on the island is much more worrying.
According to INSEE, Corsica is even the region most affected economically by the Covid-19: tourism has almost stopped for a year.
If the government's stimulus plan provides for 100 million euros for the Isle of Beauty, the account is not there for the local executive, which claims 300. Marcangeli does estimate that 100 million euros will not be enough to revive the economy, but denounces
"a problem of method"
of Corsican power.
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Pleading for dialogue, he considers
"curious"
this antagonism consisting in on the one hand claiming more autonomy, even independence, and on the other saying that
"the bad state does not give enough money".
If he was president of the executive
,
the former LR deputy of South Corsica ensures that he would not act in this way
.
"I would try to discuss with the State to find ways of convergence and, before proposing a plan to the Corsican Assembly, I would first make sure that there is something to do together, with the State . "
Its objective is to stop talking only about institutions.
"The community cannot afford the luxury of relegating to the back of the store the subjects that concern the daily life of Corsicans, waste, transport, energy, infrastructure and social issues."
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