Management of Corsica’s ports and airports: what now?

The blockade of Corsica’s ports and airports by CCI staff, worried about their future while the State seemed to balk at the idea of ​​an open mixed union, bore fruit. Paris agreed to consider the hypothesis sympathetically. It now remains to find a solution that will satisfy everyone.

“Everyone has understood that the State supports the open mixed union, and is committed to this logic without delay, without hesitation and without ulterior motives.”

The words of Amaury de Saint-Quentin, the prefect of Corsica, came last night to support the press release published a few minutes earlier by the Ministry of Partnership with Territories and Decentralization. Paris affirmed that it favored the solution of “the creation, by prefectural decree, of a open mixed union, integrating the option of recourse to legal mechanisms allowing the pursuit of exploitation by the CCl, i.e. the attachment by legislative means of the pact law”.

An orientation which convinced the strikers to lift the blockade of ports and airports which had lasted for a little over 24 hours on the island.

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However, nothing is definitive.

Catherine Vautrin and François Durovray, the ministers concerned, assure that they wish “define, in consultation, the conditions for legal security of the model that will be adopted”.

To do this, “As the current system expires on December 31, 2024, they will ask the prefect of Corsica, if necessary, to authorize the exceptional extension of the current plan, the time strictly essential for the validation and implementation of the new model, in order to guarantee the permanence of public service and the rights of CCI employees”.

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So many tokens of goodwill, but no firm commitment, which would have been difficult given the haste in which a way out of the conflict had to be found.

The dialogue was renewed, making it possible to lift a blockage which had plunged Corsica into a rare panic in less than 24 hours.

It now remains to find lasting common ground.

See the report by Marc-Antoine Renucci: