Goodbye mainland France? Two Corsican deputies demanded this Saturday the opening of a dialogue around the autonomy of the island, like what was proposed in Guadeloupe where the government said it was “ready” to raise the issue. more autonomy.
Jean-Félix Acquaviva, deputy for Haute-Corse, launched this Saturday in a press release a “solemn call for a similar process in Corsica” to that proposed in Guadeloupe. “The government is therefore ‘ready’ to speak of the autonomy of Guadeloupe as one of the structural solutions to be brought to this crisis. It took violence, nights of riots to arrive at this evidence. This does not fail to challenge “, he was moved, recalling that in Corsica” it has been years since universal suffrage is clear and limpid on these questions by allowing a large majority of Corsicans to determine themselves in a way. reiterated for full legislative autonomy ”.
Situation in #Guadeloupe, and dialogue around#Autonomy: position of @Partitu_FemuAC and a solemn call for an effective and urgent political change of the State in #Corsica. @fapopuluAC @IsulaCorsica ⤵️ https://t.co/u2pDpAOoe9
– Jean-Félix Acquaviva (@JF_Acquaviva) November 27, 2021
“Femu a Corsica once again calls on the State to go in the direction of History by installing a new political process in Corsica, turning its back on the old demons of exacerbated centralism, even of a colonial attitude”, added the latter. who is also national secretary of the party of the president of the Executive Council of Corsica, Gilles Simeoni.
“The state can no longer ignore us”
For his part, the deputy of Corse-du-Sud Paul-André Colombani (autonomist) wondered about Twitter: “What about Corsica, where we are constantly initiating dialogue and expressing our demands in a democratic way? Where are we working to change our status? Where are the nationalists in the majority? », Adding:« The state can no longer ignore us ».
In 2014, at the end of four decades of armed struggle marked by numerous attacks, the Front de Liberation de la Corse (FLNC) announced that it would lay down its arms. Since then, the nationalists have won several important ballots and have established themselves as the majority political current on the island, especially during the territorial elections in June.