The dissolution did not definitively bury the project of a status of autonomy for Corsica, and the dialogue between Paris and the island’s elected officials is not broken. Catherine Vautrin, Minister for Partnership with Territories and Decentralization, received Gilles Simeoni, the president of the Corsican executive, on Thursday October 10, to talk, among other things, about this issue. At the end of an interview which lasted almost three hours, the autonomist leader described the meeting as ” positive “. Her interlocutor confirmed to her that she would go ” Soon “ on the island to continue these exchanges.
A far-sighted agreement “the recognition of a status of autonomy” from Corsica “within the Republic” was found in March 2024 between the previous government and Corsican elected officials. This was the conclusion of discussions launched in 2022 after violent incidents that broke out when Yvan Colonna, convicted of the assassination of prefect Erignac in 1998, was fatally attacked in prison.
A text of law expected in the Senate at the beginning of 2025
According to the timetable indicated by Catherine Vautrin, the text of the agreement will now go through the Senate Law Committee, whose report will be delivered at the end of October and transmitted to the National Assembly. A draft constitutional law, necessary to modify the status of Corsica, should be ready in 2025.
For this reform to be validated, the text must be voted on in the same terms by the deputies and senators, then by a three-fifths majority during their meeting in Congress. The vote could take place “before the end of 2025”, advances Catherine Vautrin, who is due to receive Corsican parliamentarians on Tuesday October 15.
