Corsican Assembly

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Unicameral legislative body of Corsica

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Field	Value
name	Corsican Assembly
native_name	Assemblea di Corsica
L'Assemblée de Corse
coa_pic	Logo-assemblee-de-corse.png
coa_res	130px
foundation	2 March 1982
house_type	Unicameral
leader1_type	President of the Assembly
leader1	Marie-Antoinette Maupertuis
party1	Femu a Corsica
election1	1 July 2021
members	63
structure1	[[File:Corsica Parliament 2021.svg
political_groups1	Government (32)
last_election1	June 2021
session_room	Ajaccio Grand Hôtel Continental.jpg
session_res	250px
meeting_place	Grand Hôtel d'Ajaccio et Continental, Ajaccio
website
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The Corsican Assembly or Assembly of Corsica (; ) is the unicameral legislative body of the territorial collectivity of Corsica. It has its seat at the Grand Hôtel d'Ajaccio et Continental, in the Corsican capital of Ajaccio. After the 2017 territorial elections, the assembly was expanded from 51 to 63 seats, with the executive council expanding from 9 to 11 members (including the president).

History

Before 1975, Corsica was a département of the French region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur.

On 2 March 1982, a law was passed that gave Corsica the status of territorial collectivity (collectivité territoriale), abolishing the Corsican Regional Council which had existed before. Unlike the regional councils, the Corsican Assembly has executive powers over the island.

In 1992, three institutions were formed in the territorial collectivity of Corsica:

The Executive Council of Corsica, which exercises the type of executive functions held in other French regions by the Presidents of the Regional Councils. It ensures the stability and consistency needed to manage the affairs of the territory;
The Corsican Assembly, a deliberative, unicameral legislative body with greater powers than the regional councils on the mainland;
The Economic, Social and Cultural Council of Corsica, an advisory body.

Terminology

Members of the Corsican Assembly were first called "territorial councillors" in reference to Corsica's status as a collectivité territoriale. Members are now called "Councillors of the Corsican Assembly", or in unofficial and everyday speech, just "Councillors".

Powers

Economic development
Taxation
Energy
Environment
Housing
Education and training
Language
Transport
Forestry and agriculture
Culture
Tourism
Sports & youth

Composition

There are 63 members of the Assembly, elected for a six-year term via a closed party list and two rounds of voting. To pass beyond the first round, a candidate requires an absolute majority, whereas in the second round a plurality is sufficient.

The list that wins in the first or second round automatically obtains three seats as a "premium to the majority". The other seats are distributed based on proportional representation.

At the first meeting of Assembly Councillors after an election, the councillors elect an Assembly President in a plurality ballot. This is also a two-round contest, with an absolute majority required to proceed to the second round. At the same time as the election of the President, the Assembly also elects the ten members that will make up the President's Committee (bureau).

In contrast to the executives of the regional councils, Assembly Councillors may not also be members of the Corsican Executive Council. Election to the executive requires resignation from the Assembly.

Results

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Candidate	First round	Second round	Seats	+/-	%	Votes	%
Femu a Corsica}}	Gilles Simeoni *	FC		29.19	40.64	32	+14
Bonapartist Central Committee}}	Laurent Marcangeli	CCB-LR-UDI		24.86	32.02	17	+1
Party of the Corsican Nation}}	Jean-Christophe Angelini	PNC		13.22	15.07	8	-15
Corsica Libera}}"	Jean-Guy Talamoni *	CL		6.90
Corsica Libera}}	Paul-Félix Benedetti	Rinnovu		8.39	12.26	6	+6
Miscellaneous left}}	Jean-Charles Orsucci	TdP-LREM		5.92		0	-6
National Rally (France)}}	François Filoni	RN		4.00		0
Europe Ecology – The Greens}}	Agnès Simonpietri	EÉLV-G.s-GÉ		3.75		0
French Communist Party}}	Michel Stefani	PCF		3.18		0
Far-right}}	Jean-Antoine Giacomi	EXD		0.59		0

Valid votes	98.22		96.79
Blank ballots	0.84		1.65
Null Ballots	0.94		1.56
Turnout	57.08		58.91	63
Abstentions	42.92		41.09
Registered voters	100		100
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Presidents of the Corsican Assembly

1974–1979: François Giacobbi
1979–1982: Jean Filippi
1982–1984: Prosper Alfonsi
1984–1998: Jean-Paul de Rocca Serra
1998–2004: José Rossi
2004–2010: Camille de Rocca Serra
2010–2015: Dominique Bucchini
2015-2021: Jean-Guy Talamoni
2021-: Marie-Antoinette Maupertuis

Assembly members

Members since 2015:

References

Morgane Rubetti. (1 December 2017). "Corse : cinq questions pour comprendre les élections territoriales". Le Figaro.
"Elections régionales et des assemblées de Corse, Guyane et Martinique 2021 – Corsica".

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