Overview
- The autonomy reform that passed the National Assembly would let Corsica adapt national laws and issue its own texts with the precise scope left to a future loi organique.
- Senate opinion is sharply divided as the right-wing majority fractures between conservatives who oppose special status and centrists who seek a compromise to protect the Assembly text.
- Senator Muriel Jourda, rapporteur for the bill, called the proposal vague and pushed committee amendments that include deleting the phrase 'communauté insulaire', a term meant to recognize Corsica's island identity.
- Centrists such as Isabelle Florennes and left senators including Éric Kerrouche are trying to broker a 'voie de passage' while autonomists like Paul-Toussaint Parigi say they will fight to defend the Assembly compromise.
- Even if the Senate approves a text, the amendment must be passed in identical terms by both chambers and then win a three-fifths majority in Congress, a procedural hurdle that makes final adoption before the election unlikely and raises questions about timing and political fallout.