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“Rather Swiss than Burgundy.” This is a regionalist group proclaims called “Movement Franche-Comte” (MFCs), created in 2006, which suggests that the region is linked to Switzerland. In a statement relayed by the Although public the group denounces the merger of the Franche-Comté to Burgundy, under the territorial reform. “With the loss of its status Besançon regional capital and the disastrous turn of events for the future of the Franche-Comté and that of its inhabitants, the Franche-Comté Movement, which is to defend the best interests of the Franche-Comte and its people, unfortunately no other choice but to position themselves now firmly in favor of annexation of Franche-Comté to Switzerland ” in the text explains the president of MFC, Jean-Philippe Allenbach.
Such a connection would allow him according to the Francs-Comtois “save their regional capital, their assembly, their budget and their own flag, but in addition, instead of losing everything as in the case the merger with Burgundy, they would be winning on all fronts, particularly in terms of purchasing power, employment, tax and security. ” Friday, following a government seminar, Prime Minister, Manuel Valls, has announced a provisional list of the thirteen capitals future major regions created by the reform, which will come into force on 1 st in January 2016.
For the future region Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Dijon and its 152,000 inhabitants were preferred in Besançon (116,000 inhabitants), to the chagrin of Jean-Philippe Allenbach, for whom the choice “is only the first concrete effects of the proposed merger with Burgundy in which we, Franche-Comté, have everything to lose and nothing to win” . For now, Besançon should retain the rectory while Dijon will host the Regional Health Agency, the Department of Cultural Affairs and the regional audit.
The Swiss want an old hobby
Burgundy and Franche-Comté had indicated their intention to join forces in April 2014, three months after the announcement of the government’s intention to redraw the map of France. During a joint press conference, socialist presidents of regional associations of Franche-Comté and Burgundy, Marie-Guite Dufay and François Patriat, had then highlighted the existing cooperation between the two territories, particularly at the centers university hospitals and universities. Objective: “Make functional economies,” and “be more attractive in terms of growth and employment” , then had they said. Faced with concerns about this union, the Franche-Comte Marie-Guite Dufay insisted: a “more efficient administrative organization to look to the future does not mean a loss of identity of our regions. In contrast, a strong partnership could stop the departure of some seats [of businesses and organizations] in Dijon “.
Nothing to calm the fears of the Movement Franche-Comté which, after demanding a referendum on the merger in November, alongside two Alsatian associations, filed in May an application to the State Council to try to repeal the reform areas. The idea of a merger between the Franche-Comté and Switzerland is also an old hobby of MFC. And for good reason. Its president, Jean-Philippe Allenbach, retired sexagenarian finance based in Geneva, was born in Besançon a French mother and a Swiss father
In 2008, his movement had commissioned a survey to a Swiss institute to know the position of the Helvetic population on a possible union with neighboring Comtois. Result: she said it mostly favorable “All the Franc-Comtois could find their account in Switzerland: low wages doubled, less taxes, fewer strikes, full of bicycles ….” , declared in 2010 in Dispatch Jean-Philippe Allenbach, continuing: “The Haut-Doubs companies leave Switzerland. Unless introduce specific tax regime in Franche-Comté, one is dead! Better to go in the opposite camp. “
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