French Senate rejects bill on autonomy for Corsica

Moscow, Oct 27 (Sputnik/UNI) The French Senate has rejected a bill that would have granted autonomy to Corsica within the French Republic. "The Senate has not adopted the draft constitutional law, previously approved by the National Assembly, regarding autonomy for Corsica within the Republic," the French Senate said on X. According to the vote count, 134 senators voted in favour of the bill, while 181 voted against it. As reported by Agence France-Presse, following this outcome, Paul-Toussaint Parigi, a senator representing the Haute-Corse (Upper Corsica) department, announced that the camp supporting autonomy for the island was withdrawing from negotiations with…