“Nazione” (Nation), a new Corsican independence party favorable to armed struggle, was born on Sunday in Corte, absorbing in particular the separatists of Corsica Libera who disappeared as a party, according to the motion to establish the new movement consulted on Monday by the AFP.
The new movement, officially born on Sunday during a gathering in Corte (Haute-Corse) which brought together 600 people according to the organizers, brings together already existing groups such as Jean-Guy Talamoni's party, Corsica Libera, which only had only one elected to the Corsican assembly since the last territorial elections in June 2021, and the collective for the defense of Corsican so-called “political” prisoners, Patriotti.
There are also activists not affiliated with a party.
“Today we are
Nazione
, it is a nationalist, independence movement, which supports the armed struggle, we are the only political movement which supports the armed struggle and which demands the independence of Corsica,” Jean declared to the media -Philippe Antolini, former spokesperson for Patriotti and now member of “Nazione”.
Fight for “national liberation”
“Corsica Libera, as far as its activists are concerned, gives way to
Nazione
to carry the fight of the national liberation struggle,” said Petru Antone Tomasi, former spokesperson for the Corsica Libera party.
This movement places its political action in the "national liberation struggle of the Corsican people" and affirms as its objective "the accession of our people to independence and the creation of a Corsican Republic", specifying "to combat the phenomenon of colonization of settlement” and bringing “political solidarity to the Corsican National Liberation Front (FLNC)”, we can read in the creation motion, written in Corsican.
In August 2023, the FLNC called, in a press release, for the creation of a “patriotic resistance platform” supposed to “transcend political parties, associations, unions and all the patriots who find themselves there”.
“Nazione rejects the prospect of a French destiny”, specifies the motion which is in fact opposed to the “strategy” of the Corsican community of negotiation with the State.
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The movement declares the “ecological emergency” and the need to fight against climate change and for the “preservation of agricultural production” in Corsica as well as for “more social justice” and “economic development respectful of its culture”.
The creation of “Nazione” comes two days after the revelation of a clandestine FLNC press conference which judged that the autonomy currently under discussion with Paris would be incapable of “preserving the Corsican people”.