71% of French people are in favor of France becoming federal

The APROFED association is getting back to you this week to share with you the results of a survey conducted in mainland France by IFOP last week, the full text of which can be found at the link below, which informs us that 71% of French people would now be in favor of France becoming federal.

IFOP Survey: Decentralization, territorial identity, demands… French regionalism put to the test of time – IFOP

To summarize, this survey tells us that :

– 71% of French people would like France to become federal in which the regions would have autonomy,

– 2/3 of French people believe that the (Jacobin) State has too much power ,

– the federal demand proves to be transpartisan and transgenerational ,

– the regional map drawn up by F. Hollande in 2015 is widely rejected . 68% of French people are calling for it to be redrawn,

– centralism is the subject of almost unanimous rejection ,

– 90% of French people believe that the State is too disconnected from local realities,

– 73% of French people want regions to be able to vote on national laws,

– half want a special status for Corsica and 50% are in favour of creating a special status also for the Basque Country,

– and 87% of French people are in favor of setting up a citizens’ initiative referendum (RIC).

It is therefore time that this wish, carried by the French people and your humble association, comes to fruition through a 6th Republic with a federalist vocation.

This turning point would have already taken place at the beginning of the 2000s during the drafting of the European Constitution . France’s refusal to save its particularism ultimately resulted, contrary to what had been promised to the people, in repeated crises, at once popular, economic, health, financial and security, for which the centralizing French State has provided only repression, debt and incompetence as a remedy.

Hoping that this change, not to say this revolution, can see the light of day during the next presidential elections in 2027.

The association nevertheless points out that such a project should not be limited to being considered only within the borders of France but on a European scale, where the EU,  once again blocked by France, has not been able to complete its transformation from a confederation to a fully-fledged federation with the election of a European president by universal suffrage and a distribution of powers between entities as proposed in the attached graph, with a view to realizing the wish expressed by W Churchill and V Hugo to one day see the birth of the “United States of Europe”.

We wish you a good read and remind you that federalism is the only solution to reconcile unity in diversity.