Three nationalist deputies, close to the chief of the executive, will try to keep their headquarters while the discussions on the institutional future of the island should start after the ballot.
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Forty-three candidates crowd in the four Corsican districts to take the road to the Palais-Bourbon, but three of them play part of the political future of the President of the Executive Council of Corsica, Gilles Simeoni: The outgoing nationalist deputies. Elected in 2017 thanks to an unprecedented wave that had swallowed up the last strong places of the right-wing political clans and left-wing radical, Michel Castellani (1 re sup> district of Haute-Corse), Jean -Félix Acquaviva (2
é> district of Haute-Corse) and Paul-André Colombani (2 e é> district of Corse-du-Sud) had consolidated the nationalist citadel.
displaying their desire to “defend the interests of Corsica in Paris”, the three parliamentarians were the Missi Dominici of Mr. Simeoni by bringing the fundamentals of autonomism to Paris. With some successes, acquired in particular when they were able to constitute, with a dozen other deputies from various backgrounds, the Libertés et Territoires group, created in October 2018. Mr. Castellani was not the least stirring, with The 1,200 interventions he claims in the hemicycle. To their assets, also, the adoption of the bill on the real estate speculation of Mr. Acquaviva or the jousts of Doctor Colombani during the health crisis.
One of the key moments will have been the platform written by the nationalist Troika and co-signed by five group presidents of the National Assembly, published in Le Monde of December 17, 2021, asking, “in the name of respect for the law” , the rapprochement in an island prison of the three detainees convicted for the assassination of the prefect Claude Erignac, on February 6, 1998 in Ajaccio. Widely supported on the island and on all the benches of the Corsican Assembly, this request took another turn after the deadly aggression which Yvan Colonna was the victim – the main accused -, on March 2, at the central D ‘Arles. This followed several days of demonstrations, accompanied by violence and degradations, under the aegis of the slogan “Status Francese Assassinu” (“French Assassin State”).
To try to bring calm, the government accelerated the rapprochement of the two other prisoners and, on March 16, the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, now in charge of the “Corsican file”, went to the island for Engage a political process towards “autonomy”. A turnaround that made certain opponents say to Mr. Simeoni, himself seriously abused in the collective assemblies at the initiative of the demonstrations, which the street had “obtained more in seven days of riots than him in seven years in mandate “, In the words of independence advisor Paul-Félix Benedetti.
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