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Autonomy of Corsica: in the Senate, debates are bogged down on the notion of "Corsican community"

Initially devoted to the failures of child welfare (ASE), the text was expanded after the revelations of sexual violence in extracurriculars and the death…

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Key facts

  • Several overseas senators particularly expressed their incomprehension: how can we justify that Corsica, a metropolitan community, can alone justify…
  • Initially devoted to the failures of child welfare (ASE), the text was expanded after the revelations of sexual violence in extracurriculars and the…
  • But the Senate was very divided on this formulation, particularly within its right-wing and center majority.

Several overseas senators particularly expressed their incomprehension: how can we justify that Corsica, a metropolitan community, can alone justify differentiated treatment in the Constitution in the name of its island specificity, when the overseas communities and territories are, for their part, all brought together under the same articles in the organic text?

Initially devoted to the failures of child welfare (ASE), the text was expanded after the revelations of sexual violence in extracurriculars and the death of young Lyhanna.

But the Senate was very divided on this formulation, particularly within its right-wing and center majority.

“Pretending that the LR group or the senatorial majority would have put an end to the process makes no sense!

“I was born in Corsica, I only left it for a year for my military service.

The elected officials expected a heated session, the debates kept their promise.

On the other hand, they have tightened the repression of serial rapes and created a file of sanctions, in the name of the legal security of the text.

This very restrictive version of the reform also attracted the wrath of the left.

The word community bothers me because I don't feel like I belong to a community.

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