“The status quo would be the failure of us all,” declared Emmanuel Macron in particular before the Corsican Assembly on Thursday in Ajaccio. PASCAL POCHARD-CASABIANCA / AFP
DECRYPTION – Having remained hesitant for a long time regarding the Corsican issue, the president said Thursday that he wanted to recognize the “specificities” of the island in the Constitution.
Special envoy to Ajaccio (South Corsica)
A tricolor flag has been installed on the pediment of the Ajaccio regional hotel (Southern Corsica), this former palace surrounded by palm trees. It floats between the European standard and the Corsican banner bearing the Moor’s head. Express request from the Élysée before the arrival of Emmanuel Macron on the island. The boss of the very powerful local executive, the autonomist Gilles Simeoni, agreed: the visit of the Head of State, from Wednesday to Friday, takes on a “ political and symbolic importance » particular. It’s worth a French flag.
After eighteen months of discussions between his Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, and the elected islanders, the President of the Republic came on Thursday to outline a new status for Corsica. From the podium of the Corsican Assembly, he first paid tribute to the island’s resistance fighters, “first liberated territory of mainland France”October 4, 1943. Eighty years later,“We are at a…
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