The President of the Executive Board of Corsica has no longer expressed publicly since April 3rd.
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“To get out of the tension situation known by Corsica and a conflict logic that has been prevailing for fifty years, only one sustainable and efficient solution: the commitment of the discussion process between Corsica and the State . “The lapidary tweet, with another supporting the Mayor of Ajaccio, is the last public word of Gilles Simeoni and dates from April 3rd. Since then, it is a deafening silence, which amazes in the usual strategy of omnipresence of the media space of the executive president.
This Sunday, April 3, in Ajaccio, Mr. Simeoni was part of the procession that went up the Napoleon course, behind a banner “Status Francese Assassinu” – “The French State Assassin”. From the first clashes, the boss of the local executive left the places. The next day, the Minister of the Interior annulled the first appointment of the autonomy discussions between the government and the elected corsicas that was to be taken in Beauvau on April 8. “The conditions of a normalized dialogue not being met”, dixit the inside, who had asked the appeasement of the street as a prerequisite. Gilles Simeoni, abused on the island by his former allies who became opponents, sometimes even calling for his resignation, had been reinforced by the government as the privileged interlocutor. But the fact that Mr. Simeoni has worn upon his arrival in Ajaccio the yvan coffin colonna until the restoir, and that he paradeed in the processing of attacks against the State quickly challenged his reliability. For Paris.
Tuesday, April 5, the President of the Executive brought together the presidents of the Corsica assembly to make two elements: “Democracy is our common good, there are no other paths than the process Politics and we must create its conditions of possibility, including by appeasement. “” Gilles Simeoni reflects, slice his entourage. All that should be said has been said, you have to open the process as soon as possible. “Save a Inaudible word During the presidential election and an electoral calendar forced until summer, the President of the Executive refuses to categorically condemn violence, as required by the Ministry of the Interior.
This week, the “Mr. Corsica” of Beauvau Square, Grégory Canal, was on the island meeting local elected officials to “take the pulse” and discover a Corsican question that he does not know everything or almost. While the independence parties Core in Fronte and Corsica Libera call for the boycott of the presidential election, Gilles Simeoni does not know yet if he will vote on Sunday morning in an island where the abstention promises to be eloquent.