The outgoing autonomist president of the Corsican executive council, Gilles Simeoni, won this Sunday in the second round of the regional with 40.6% of the vote, obtaining an absolute majority in the Assembly of the island, in a region where two in three voters voted nationalist.
In Bastia, it is surrounded by his mother and his brother, under the Corsican flags and to the sound of firecrackers, gunshots and agricultural bombs, that Gilles Simeoni sang his victory at length with his supporters before commenting on it. It was then carried in triumph on their shoulders brandishing the bandera, the Corsican flag.
A participation rate established in Corsica at 58.9%
“It is an exceptional result, it is an extraordinary electoral victory”, welcomed the strong man of Corsica whose third term of president of the executive council will also benefit from a legitimacy that many presidents will envy him. from regions elsewhere in France: the participation rate in Corsica was 58.9%, up nearly two points compared to the first round, and more than 20 points higher than the national rate which is estimated at around 35 %.
The list of Gilles Simeoni, who said he hoped that this “electoral victory will turn in the months and years to come into an extraordinary political victory for Corsica”, obtained on Sunday evening the absolute majority and will occupy 32 of the 63 councilor seats of the Corsican Assembly. These will elect for almost seven years Thursday the 11 executive advisers and their president as well as the president of the Corsican Assembly.
The LR candidate comes second
“Today we have all the means so that the term of office to come is that of the realization of an immense hope, that of the irreversible implementation of our collective project, of a political solution with the State and of an irreversible commitment of Corsica on a path of peace and emancipation ”, he said. Laurent Marcangeli, mayor of Ajaccio and head of a right-wing union list invested by The Republicans, meanwhile came second with 32% of the vote.
“Today Mr. Simeoni won, we must congratulate him but I am at the head of the opposition, an opposition which will be demanding, respectful, productive, constructive but nevertheless an opposition. We are a dike, a dike that will not break, “said Laurent Marcangeli in front of Ajaccio town hall, surrounded by his supporters, before hammering under the applause of his supporters:” We do not have the same model of society . “