In Doubs, the Corsican autonomy project has aroused renewed enthusiasm among regionalists.
Their leader, Jean-Philippe Allenbach, president of the Franche-Comté Movement, has been fighting for “a federal France” for several decades.
“In general, we welcome the agreement reached with the Corsicans.
But we find it discriminatory for our region which has its own identity, in the same way as Savoie, Alsace or Brittany.
At the MFC, we want the same thing: it’s everyone or no one, insists the septuagenarian.
Otherwise, tomorrow we will have first-class elected officials who will be able to act freely.
And second-class elected officials, who will be deprived of this right,” warns the president.
Before wondering: “Do you need a violent past to have a chance of obtaining the same favors from the State?
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Jean-Philippe Allenbach also has difficulty with the merger of the regions.
For him, it is urgent to go back.
“We demand the split of Franche-Comté from Burgundy.
Let us give back our region and the same rights to adapt our regulations and laws.
We are completely calling into question the centralist system.
He hides the waste of public money.
We want a federal France in a federal Europe.
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