Legislative 2022: in Corsica, three nationalist deputies qualified for second round

On the island as at the national level, participation was very low. The voters have chosen to carry their voices on the outgoing elected officials

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By placing a candidate in the second round for the first time in each of the four Corsican districts – three of which are out of the nationalists confirm their hegemony on the Corsican political chessboard. But this domination has as many nuances as weaknesses, in an election marked by an abstention greater than 51 %.

In an island where almost one out of three voters slipped a bulletin in favor of Marine Le Pen during the presidential election, the National Rally (RN) represents at the end of the first round of the legislative elections 12 % of the votes, Two points in front of together! And three behind the right. The left, without the new Ecological and Social Popular Union (Nuts), absent from Corsica, is below 9 %.

With 17.48 % of the votes, Romain Colonna (FEMU A Corsica), candidate dubbed by the president of the Executive Council of Corse, Gilles Simeoni, in the 1 ^re district of Corse-du- South, who had escaped autonomists in 2017, manages to qualify for the second round, but is far from the mayor of Ajaccio, Laurent Marcangeli (Ensemble!). Of Philippist sensitivity. Mr. Marcangeli, favorite with 33.70 % of the votes, bets to recompose a crumbled Corsican right, but also nourishes national ambitions, both at the Palais-Bourbon and in the Cycle of negotiations between Corsica and Paris, which ‘Open at the end of June. “I am not told about autonomy, I am told about the fridge which is hard to fill or full of petrol that is hard to pay,” he commented on Sunday evening.

Roots

In the 2 ^{e district of Corse-du-Sud, with 27.62 % of the votes, the right represented by Valérie Bozzi was preceded by the outgoing deputy, the autonomist Paul-André Colombani (Partitu di a Nazione Corsa), which confirms its roots (37.24 %). Mr. Colombani, satisfied with his score, “discharge for work has been done for five years”, addresses the second round serenely. But the question of the postponement of voice arises in this area where one in five voting has chosen one of the three far -right candidates, including the RN, which achieves a breakthrough at 14.77 %.}

In the 1 re district of Haute-Corse, fief of M. Simeoni, Michel Castellani (FEMU A Corsica) obtained a score of 33.77 %, upgrading his three pursuers. At 76, the outgoing deputy, who embodied during the campaign La Force Quiet, bets to “go out very largely in the lead” Sunday June 19 against Julien Morganti (various center, 13.61 %).

All nationalist looks are turned towards 2 ^e district of Haute-Corse, where the outgoing deputy Jean-Félix Acquaviva (femu a Corsica) is in difficulty despite his 33.46 % in a Duel with François-Xavier Ceccoli (29.06 %), the departmental president of the LR federation, who did not claim his label. As of Sunday evening, Mr. Ceccoli was attacking the clientelist practices of his opponent, denouncing electoral promises of jobs or subsidies. Similar attacks had been formulated by Lionel Mortini, a dissident nationalist and third man (17.99 %) of this campaign which multiplied its criticisms against the Simeoni clan. “I go out in mind when we played everything except Acquaviva and the All unless Simeoni,” cut Mr. Acquaviva on Sunday evening, sweeping these accusations with a back of the accusations.

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