Overview

• The government approved the constitutional draft in July without incorporating the Conseil d’État’s critical opinion.
• The Senate is scheduled to examine the text in October, and LR leader and interior minister Bruno Retailleau has already voiced his disagreement.
• To be adopted, the amendment must pass in identical terms in the National Assembly and the Senate, then secure a three-fifths majority of Parliament meeting in Congress.
• Autonomist leaders, buoyed by regional victories since 2015, are pressing for constitutional recognition of Corsica’s specificity, co-official status for the language, a resident status, and the rapprochement of Corsican prisoners.
• The current push follows the Beauvau dialogue launched after 2022 unrest, which set red lines keeping Corsica within the Republic and rejecting two categories of citizens, as the island marks 50 years since Aléria.