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Progressive Nationalists Make Gains In Corsica

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While the vast majority of the foreign press has focused on the unexpected failure of Marine Le Pen’s right-wing Front National to take control of at least two of France’s thirteen regional councils, thanks to informal agreements between the country’s mainstream parties and a complex electoral system which favours establishment groupings (though FN still managed to increase its vote and treble its number of elected councillors), few have noticed a quiet revolution taking place elsewhere within the ambit of the République française.

The Mediterranean island of Corsica, a territory with a far greater degree of self-government than is the norm in “metropolitan France”, has experienced a significant shift to parties representing various strands of Corsican autonomous sentiment, from cautious regionalists to progressive nationalists. Though their combined support was slightly down when compared to the previous elections in 2010, the creation of a joint “list” between the majority U Partitu di a Nazione Corsa and the minority Corsica Libera yielded the new alliance, Pè a Corsica or “For Corsica”, just over 35%  in the decisive second round of voting. This was enough to give them nearly half the seats in the Assemblea di Corsica or Corsican Assembly. From the Guardian newspaper:

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