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Posted on 07/07/2003 2:33:39 PM PDT by presidio9
The Mediterranean island of Corsica, plagued by decades of separatist violence, rejected a French Government offer of limited autonomy by a wafer-thin majority in a referendum yesterday.
President Jacques Chirac said he regretted the outcome. The state would continue to combat any form of violence and offer help to the island.
Commentators offered multiple suggestions for the failure of the Government's proposals, one of them being that some voters who would have said "Yes" did not want to be in the same camp as more radical nationalists.
The isle, which lies 160km south of France's Riviera coast, has been plagued by separatist violence since the mid-1970s and the conservative Government in Paris billed the referendum as a historic chance to restore prosperity and peace.
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It's only "wafer thin."
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