Two Corsican deputies demanded on Saturday the opening of a dialogue around the autonomy of the island, like what was proposed in Guadeloupe where the government said, through the voice of the Minister of Overseas -mer Sébastien Lecornu, “ready” to discuss the issue of more autonomy.
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Jean Félix Acquaviva, deputy for Haute-Corse, launched on Saturday in a press release a "
solemn call for a similar process in Corsica"
to that proposed in Guadeloupe.
“The government is therefore ready to talk about the autonomy of Guadeloupe as one of the structural solutions to bring to this crisis.
It took violence, nights of riots to arrive at this evidence.
This does not fail to challenge "
, he was moved, recalling that in Corsica
" it has been years since universal suffrage has been clear and limpid on these questions by allowing a large majority of Corsicans to determine themselves in such a way. reiterated for full legislative autonomy ”
.
"The state can no longer ignore us"
"Femu a Corsica once again calls on the State to go in the direction of History by installing a new political process in Corsica, turning its back on the old demons of exacerbated centralism, even of a colonial attitude"
, added the latter. who is also national secretary of the party of the president of the Executive Council of Corsica, Gilles Simeoni.
For his part, the deputy of Corse-du-Sud Paul-André Colombani (autonomist) wondered on Twitter:
"What about Corsica where we continue to initiate dialogue and share our demands in a democratic way?
Where are we working to change our status?
Where are the nationalists in the majority? "
, adding:
"The state can no longer ignore us"
.
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In 2014, at the end of four decades of armed struggle marked by numerous attacks, the Front de Liberation de la Corse (FLNC) announced that it would lay down its arms.
Since then, the nationalists have won several important ballots and have established themselves as the majority political current on the island, especially during the territorial elections in June.
