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Corsica-When Mitterrant made dream the Corsican people

The Corsican question : The second half of the 20th century witnessed the emergence of substate nationalism in Western Europe. Particularly, since the late 70s different processes of accommodation have taken place in Scotland, Catalonia, the Basque Country or Flanders. Even in France, the paradigm of nation-state, the corsican question is to a great extent at the bottom of the territorial reform of the state. One of the first decrees issued by the French Constituent Assembly in 1789 declared Corsica as an integral part of France emmpire. In spite of integrating into the French republic without any institutional specificity, Corsica has been often perceived as a different province. To a great extent this perception is still valid to interpret the relations between France and Corsica, a province that is neither continental France nor an overseas territory, and during the 1960s some authors even claimed that the island suffered from internal colonialism (Hechter, el que sigui). After the failure of De Gaulles referendum in 1969, the next decade witnessed the emergence of violent movements, either pro-corsican such the FLNC (National Front of Liberation of Corsica) or pro-french such FRANCIA (Front of New Action Against Independence and Autonomy). The corsican question reached its highest peack with the Aleria facts, when a pacific occupation of a farm by corsican nationalists ended with two deads and several injuried and the later imprisionment of the nationalist leader Edmond Simeoni. At the administrative level, the president of the Republic Giscard dEstaign introduced some measures of regionalisation, though they fell short of resulting in significant results. The situation during the 1970s reinforced the idea that the failure of the 1969 referendum had prevented from addressing an issue that sooner or later would reemerge in the french political agenda. François Mitterrand brought back the territorial and particularly the corsican question to French politics. In the presidential campaign of 1981, Mitterrand introduced the regionalisation of France in his political manifesto, with a particular concern on the situation in the former colonies. With regard to Corsica, he committed to provide the island with an special statute (cita). Mitterrand had been traditionally reluctant to regionalisation, but the Socialist Party was shifting towards more favorable positions since the mid-sixties, when Michel Rocard presented a report titled Decolonise the province (Décoloniser la province) during the partys convention held in 1966. Mitterrand embraced the partys position due to tactical reasons. In his view, if the territorial reform of the state remained unadressed, the nationalist demands would become more and more difficult to manage: "À 10 % on peut encore empêcher les choses, à 15 % cest très difficile, à 20 % vous narrêtêz plus rien" (quoted in Albertini & Torre). In an interview for the corsican magazine Kyrn, in 1977, Mitterrand aknowledged the corsicans had the "Right to difference".