Simeoni: “With Corsica, the State is sometimes in the register of colonial contempt”

Qhat does he really want for Corsica? Since his arrival at the presidency of the executive council in 2015, the nationalist Gilles Simeoni has claimed autonomy “in full and in full exercise” for the island. Re-elected twice with an absolute majority, after having put an end to his coalition with the separatists, he intends to undertake a new relationship with the State, at the dawn of Emmanuel Macron’s new five-year term. Autonomy? This question, which has plagued nationalists for decades, is no longer a taboo at the top of the state. Dispatched urgently to the island in mid-March to try to restore calm, the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, told the Corsican elected officials: “We are ready to go as far as autonomy. After five years of tumultuous reports…