The ecologist candidate in the presidential election, traveling to Bastia Monday, defended his wish for “a natural relationship between the French state, France and Corsica”, who passes, according to him, “by a Status of autonomy “.
Le Monde with AFP
Yannick Jadot, Candidate ecologist in the presidential election, called on Monday 31 January to “autonomy status” for Corsica, after a meeting with the Executive Board’s senior official, Gilles Simeoni, in Bastia.
“Ecologists are regionalists and especially for Corsica, it needs today to build a strong relationship, a soothing relationship between the French state, France and Corsica, and it goes through a status of full-service autonomy, “said France-Press (AFP) the candidate, visiting the Mediterranean Island.
“We have an extraordinary opportunity since one has a five-year fifth, we have a mandate that has started at the community level and it’s five years to build this status, to negotiate it, to watch the skills which remain regional, the joint skills, the exclusive skills that must be strengthened for the Corsican community, “he added.
Simeoni does not want to” provide support “to a candidate
“Today there is a delay that has been taken on the infrastructures in Corsica, there are major stakes in terms of territorial continuity, (…) on water control, waste, we see Well the importance of elsewhere for all regions in France to have a dynamic taxation, so all of this must enter the negotiation of new skills, “he detailed. “There is a Corsican people who has a story, a language, a culture, a pride (…), which must also be recognized,” he insisted.
Interviewed to find out how to support Yannick Jadot, Gilles Simeoni said that “it was not the goal of the meeting this morning”. “I do not think that president of the executive council of Corsica I have to support or engage in my signature, I represent the Collectivity of Corsica and I seek to defend the interests of Corsica, to do them Taking into account in the presidential debate, “he explained to the media.
Mid-January, Yannick Jadot had already called for the rapprochement “without delay” in a Corsican prison of three prisoners sentenced for the assassination of the Prefect Claude Erignac, in 1998, so that they purge the rest of their sentence, A claim carried out by the nationalist elected representatives of the island.