The eight Corsican elected officials left more or less satisfied with their dinner at Place Beauvau, on the night of February 26 to 27, at the end of the process for the island’s autonomy. “We are moving towards a consensusdeclared Gérald Darmanin, after four and a half hours of fun. We were able to talk about an extremely concrete thing which is the constitutional writing which would allow the constitutional reform promised by the President of the Republic. » The Minister of the Interior, who noted “the absence of local consensus” on this subject, proposed to “jump in the pool” to speed up the process; he had also sharply summoned Corsican elected officials, in an interview with Corsica Morningon February 16, » conclude «.
Mr. Darmanin listed five points which mark the draft text, starting with recognition in the constitutional bloc of the community of Corsica, defined by a statute which takes into account the “specificities of the island community, historical, linguistic and cultural”.
The formula follows the canvas of Emmanuel Macron’s speech on the island, on September 28, 2023, and excludes » by right « (by law) the notion of Corsican people, censored in 1991 by the Constitutional Council, during the “Joxe statute”. The text of Place Beauvau recognizes “the Mediterranean insularity of Corsica” and “the community’s attachment to its land”, and it establishes the power of adaptation of legislative and regulatory texts already outlined in 2002, but never applied.
The conditions of a “normative autonomy of the Corsican Assembly” will be fixed by a subsequent organic law which will determine its scope of application with, specifies Gérald Darmanin, “two safeguards”the Council of State and the Constitutional Council.
“A real framework”
Finally, island voters will be consulted by referendum on this future status, but the question of whether it could be included in the Constitution through a title or a simple article (which is the choice of the Elysée) has not been decided.
The Minister of the Interior will summon the same eight elected officials within two weeks and then conclude the Beauvau process by bringing together the strategic committee, made up of twenty Corsican representatives, to finally transmit the project to the President of the Republic, who will begin the constitutional revision. The document will then pass through the Caudine forks of the Senate and the National Assembly, which must vote on the text in the same terms, then obtain a three-fifths majority from the Congress, meeting in Versailles. The Corsican Assembly will also have to ratify the approach in advance, during March.
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