He remained silent the evening of the first round. Elected since 2015, the president of the Corsican executive, Gilles Simeoni, reserves his comments, leaving his party, Femu a Corsica, to issue a press release. The two pages of the Simeonist party, transmitted to the media, do not find a word to speak out against the rise of the extreme right, in an island where the cumulative lists of the candidate of the National Rally (RN), Jordan Bardella (40, 8%), and the candidate of Reconquête!, Marion Maréchal (8.4%), gathered half of the votes at the end of a ballot which mobilized four voters out of ten.
This score still exceeds by 12 points that which the far-right party had achieved on the island in 2019 and brings for the first time to the European Parliament a Corsican woman, the elected RN Nathaly Antona, who is already showing off her hobby horses , “cost of living, water, transport”. In dire straits, the party of the territorial majority intends to work for the sacred union of nationalists, during the early legislative elections of June 30 and July 7, and to save whatever it costs the process with Place Beauvau with a view to the autonomy of the island, today “suspended, even threatened”.
The RN was largely absent from this political process, heard here and there, but left at the door of the strategic committee which brought together around twenty personalities conversing with the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, on institutional or economic subjects. “We are for decentralization, not for autonomy”reframes François Filoni, regional delegate and member of the national office of the RN, who poses in “alternation force in the Corsican Assembly” and for whom “this vote is also the fruit of the crumbling of the regional majority”.
“We are no longer demonized”
This Ajaccian, who traveled the political spectrum of the Communist Party, passing through Chevènementism, to the right of the former mayor of Ajaccio Laurent Marcangeli, would not have “never joined the FN [Front national] by Jean-Marie Le Pen ». The former leader of the FN was unable to land in Bastia, then was unable to hold a meeting in Ajaccio on February 28, 1992, vilified by Corsican nationalists. “But with Marine [Le Pen]it’s differentargues Mr. Filoni. She has ideas for Corsica, we are not Jacobins, and then, we are on the ground, us. » The Corsican RN claims to have surveyed, during the campaign, 280 of the 360 island communes, some suffering from a feeling of “declassification”.
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