A report by the Assembly recommends “autonomy status” of the island within the Constitution | EUROtoday

The Law Commission of the National Assembly validated, Wednesday, May 28, a parliamentary report which unanimously recommends the registration of Corsica as “Community with special status” within the structure. The deputies proposed to qualify it as “Autonomy status”however with out the legislative energy claimed by the nationalists.

In this report of greater than 120 pages, the knowledge mission chaired by the deputy Florent Boudié (Gironde, Renaissance), additionally president of the legislation enforcement committee, makes suggestions on the institutional way forward for Corsica. The 16 deputies composing this mission thus take up the thought of ​​a constitutional undertaking for the autonomy of the island voted in March 2024 by the Corsican Assembly, an extended -disputed query within the French political subject.

An indication of deep political variations on the file, final March, the Senate Law Commission had not adopted the report of its personal data mission dedicated to the institutional way forward for Corsica – a primary within the historical past of the establishment.

Between 2022 and 2024, the “Beauvau process” – a cycle of negotiations between elected Corsicans and Ministry of the Interior launched by Gérald Darmanin – had led to an settlement in precept with a view to a type of autonomy from Corsica in March 2024 {that a} constitutional natural invoice was to consecrate. The discussions have been then interrupted by the dissolution of the Assembly in June 2024.

A invoice “before summer”

“The constitutional law would fix the main principles of the autonomy of Corsica when the organic legislator would determine the extent of these new prerogatives”detailed Florent Boudié in entrance of the National Assembly. The content material of this autonomy standing ought to due to this fact nonetheless be delimited by an natural legislation. All member deputies have additionally spoken to “The affirmation of the existence of a historical, linguistic and cultural community in Corsica, an integral part of the French people”.

But the mission is to not advocate the granting of a regional legislative energy, claimed by nationalists, recommending reasonably that the Corsican group can “Adapting laws or regulations in matters delimited by the future organic law”. She recommends that sovereign missions are explicitly excluded, particularly “The rules on nationality, civil rights, the guarantees of public freedoms” or “The organization of justice, criminal law, criminal procedure, foreign policy, defense, security and public order”all being managed by the Council of State and the Constitutional Council.

The mission additionally requires “The prior consultation of the voters registered on the electoral lists of Corsica on the organic status project”as soon as accomplished the constitutional revision process. The deputies advise a presentation of the constitutional invoice within the Council of Ministers and the deposit earlier than the Parliament “Before summer”and the assembly of the Congress in Versailles “At the end of 2025” – An unrealistic calendar.

To be adopted, this constitutional reform should be voted in the identical phrases by the National Assembly and the Senate, then, throughout their assembly in Congress, by nearly all of three fifths, whereas the intense proper is towards and the best skeptical. On a go to to Corsica in February, the Minister of Regional Planning, François Rebsamen, mentioned he needed “Take the process” de Beauvau, ” to make it succeed by the end of the year ”.