While he is due to go to Corsica this Saturday, Gérald Darmanin asked Michel Barnier, Prime Minister, to submit to Parliament as quickly as possible the draft constitutional law allowing the autonomy of the island in the Republic.
Responsible for the Corsican file as Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin has not forgotten the Isle of Beauty since he left Place Beauvau. Invited to Calvi by local elected officials this Saturday, November 23, he took the opportunity to question the Prime Minister, Michel Barnier, on this subject.
“I ask Michel Barnier to submit to Parliament the draft constitutional law allowing the autonomy of Corsica in the Republic,” wrote the ex-minister on which he develops this point.
“One of my greatest pride is to have succeeded in finding the path to appeasement for Corsica, within the Republic, with a constitutional proposal which will, I hope, allow the autonomy of the island territory. », declared Gérald Darmanin in the columns of our colleagues.
He continued: “We returned a clean copy. This proposal must now be presented by Michel Barnier to Parliament as quickly as possible. This is what Emmanuel Macron said to President Simeoni (Gilles Simeoni, president of the Executive Council of Corsica, editor's note) whom he received recently.
This Saturday, November 23, the former tenant of Beauvau is going to Calvi to present the insignia of officer of the Legion of Honor to the mayor of the city. He returns to the island believing that, under his mandate, “the hardest part has been done”.
In 2022, Gérald Darmanin initiated, at the request of Emmanuel Macron, the so-called Beauvau process, in order to put an end to the violence which shook Corsica after the death of independence activist Yvan Colonna. The discussions resulted in an agreement in March providing for “the recognition of an autonomous status” of the island “within the Republic”.
The dissolution of the National Assembly in June, however, brought an abrupt end to discussions on this subject, leaving many elected officials to fear that the project would be abandoned. Last October, Catherine Vautrin, Minister of Territorial Partnership and Decentralization, nevertheless affirmed that she intended to continue the “discussions started” on the Corsican autonomy process.
