2024-02-14 22:37:42
The file is progressing. Gérald Darmanin, in charge of discussions with Corsican elected officials to establish a project of “autonomy in the Republic” for the island, intends to move on “at the end of February” to “drafting the text” of constitutional revision which will be presented to parliament, indicates the Corsican Assembly on Wednesday.
The Minister of the Interior “indicated that the government intended to move on from the end of February to the phase of drafting the text which will be submitted to Congress for a vote,” the conference of presidents of political groups said in a press release on Wednesday. of the Corsican Assembly, adding “to take note of this objective”.
On September 28, during his visit to Corsica, the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron gave six months, until the end of March, to the island political groups, from the separatists to the right, to reach an “agreement” with the government leading to a “constitutional and organic text” which would give Corsica “autonomy in the Republic”.
“The deal is not done”
“As we speak, the agreement has not been concluded” between the island political groups and “it is the notion of legislative power that is blocking,” a source at the heart told AFP on Wednesday. discussions. On Tuesday, the autonomist president of the executive council of Corsica, Gilles Simeoni, spoke with Gérald Darmanin and transmitted the minister’s expectations to the conference of presidents on Wednesday, he confirmed to AFP.
“We remain determined to succeed in building both a status of autonomy and a global political solution,” added Gilles Simeoni. “Before this deadline” at the end of February, the conference of presidents indicates that it wants to present “the results of its work to the Corsican Assembly and to the various elected officials” participating in discussions with the State, “before transmitting them to the minister” and to President Macron.
She will also propose to the minister to work, “from this material, within the framework of an effective and shared method” involving “all elected officials”, on “the formalization of the constitutional revision text concerning the status of autonomy of Corsica”. She also “took note” of the fact that Minister Darmanin “confirmed the government’s intention to submit the draft constitutional revision devoted to Corsica to a vote by the National Assembly and the Senate before the end of the first half of 2024” . To be validated, this constitutional reform must then be voted on by three-fifths of Congress in the fall of 2024.
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