While the government has opened the door to a possible autonomous status for the Island of Beauty, Gilles Simeoni, president of the executive council of Corsica, remains faithful to a principle that is dear to him: caution.
“Right now, nothing is guaranteed.
The party will be difficult to negotiate”,
warns the autonomist leader who fears the trap of a discussion which would only touch on the subject, even instrumentalize it a few days before the presidential election.
Not to mention the influence of "hawks", hostile to a change in the status of Corsica: among them, political figures (Jean-Pierre Chevènement, Manuel Valls...) but also the prefectural body, which has not forgotten the tragedy of the assassination of the prefect Érignac, on February 6, 1998, in Ajaccio.
"Let's bet on hope, intelligence and the will to move forward"
, says Gilles Simeoni, convinced that the time has come to give more prerogatives to Corsican elected officials to administer their region, while maintaining the functions …
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