In Corsica, at the end of September, Emmanuel Macron set a six-month deadline for island political groups to bring about a
“constitutional and organic text”
paving the way for
“autonomy in the Republic”.
Today, according to article 72 of the Constitution, the Mediterranean island is a territorial community with
“special status”.
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With the presidential deadline approaching, Gérald Darmanin invited eight Corsican
“political family leaders”
on Monday evening to talk to them about autonomy.
At the end of this long dinner (to which the three Corsican deputies from Liot regretted not having been associated), the Minister of the Interior outlined the prospect of a new meeting within two weeks.
In the event of a conclusive outcome, he will immediately chair a strategic committee which will mark the end of the Beauvau process initiated two years ago.
“I think we are moving towards a consensus,”
said the minister, hoping that this would
“allow the territorial assembly, the president…
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