Officially, it is still Minister Gérald Darmanin who leads the discussions. But Emmanuel Macron was embedded this Friday morning in Place Beauvau, just opposite the Elysée, when discussions resumed with Corsican elected officials on the institutional future of Corsica. “He participates in the opening of the third Corsican strategic committee in Beauvau”, indicates the presidency without giving explanations. For his part, Gérald Darmanin says he is waiting for the proposals of “the nationalist majority” in this file, which has been seized up for several months.
These consultations, which must address the thorny question of a potential autonomy for Corsica, were officially launched in July 2022, four months after the deadly attack in prison of the independence activist Yvan Colonna. The death of this member of the commando condemned for the assassination in 1998 of the prefect Claude Erignac had sparked violent demonstrations on the island. Gérald Darmanin then undertook to discuss the future of the island, up to “potential autonomy”, but the exchanges stumbled over requests for a semi-freedom regime for Alain Ferrandi and Pierre Alessandri, releasable since 2017 .
This morning, Emmanuel Macron said he was open to all the solutions mentioned by the elected officials, from autonomy to differentiation, however reiterating his two “red lines”, namely the maintenance of “Corsica in the Republic” and ” the refusal to create two categories of citizens”, explained an adviser. But there is for the Head of State “no taboo” or “predetermined solution”, ready to include possible developments in his constitutional reform project “after the summer”, reported the ‘Elysium.