While Corsica has never been so close to obtaining the autonomous status that it has been demanding for so many years, Brittany is also knocking on the door, and louder and louder. The region has long been calling for real political decentralization based on the specificities of the territories. She no longer counts the promises of differentiation made by the State but often not kept. Also, as soon as the agreement reached between the government and Corsican elected officials was announced, the president of the Brittany region, Loïg Chesnais-Girard, was quick to welcome this first step while adding that this could not be "the the only progress for our country which is dying of its centralism.”
And to bring back to the table its proposal for recognition of all territories with strong specificity issued in a letter sent on March 4 to the Minister of the Interior and the President of the Senate. He takes up the idea of the former Minister of Justice, Jean-Jacques Urvoas, who recommends rewriting article 73 of the Constitution, in order to offer à la carte statutes for voluntary communities.
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