After the departure of Jérôme Filippini, his successor, Éric Jalon, 54, was appointed to the Council of Ministers, prefect of Corsica, prefect of Corse-du-Sud, this Wednesday, July 23. He should settle down in Ajaccio, at the end of August, to take office in the process. The next state representative on the island is described, according to several concordant sources, as belonging to the first circle of the current Minister of the Interior.
“And Pure product of the Ministry of the Interior, sympathetic, jovial, brilliant, a techno, certainly, but very human “
“Éric Jalon? A serious guy, a high quality official, pure product of the Ministry of the Interior, Sympathetic, Jovial, Brilliant, a Techno, certainly, but very human, who has an excellent contact. He will know how to speak to elected officials”.
The ex-deputy for island roots, François Pupponi, remained hyperactive within the Parisian political Landernau, knows well the future prefect he has frequently and regularly rubbed shoulders.
In him, “He sees an intelligent man, close to the chief of staff (Franck Robine, Editor’s note) From the tenant of Place Beauvau, Bruno Retailleau. Milestone is a good person, listening “.
The successor of Jérôme Filippini, prefect, director general of foreigners in France (DGEF) since August 23, 2022, out of the National School of Administration – Promotion “Valmy” – in 1998, began his career at the Ministry of the Interior as sub -prefect, director of cabinet of the prefect of Sarthe then, in 2000, sub -prefect, director of cabinet of the prefect of the Aquitaine region.
An experience that should be singularly useful in Corsica
Above all, Éric Jalon has for him to have occupied, from 2004 – after mobility as a finance inspector in 2002 – several positions in central administration within the Ministry of the Interior.
Among which, assistant to the deputy director of local finances and economic action at the Directorate General of Local Communities, then Sub-Director of Financial Affairs at the Directorate of Performance Evaluation and Financial and Real Estate Affairs.
In 2009, he became director of performance assessment and financial and real estate affairs, then director general of local authorities.
An experience which should prove to be singularly useful in Corsica, a community with a particular status with a unique architecture of its kind, today engaged on the path of an evolution towards autonomy, to the test of a process which remains, for the time being, chaotic. But to which the elected nationalists, they repeated it, in Paris, against Minister Rebsamen, the other evening, remain viscerally attached.
Éric Jalon does not ignore that he arrives on the thread of an extremely sensitive political sequence
While this Tuesday, July 22, Jérôme Filippini attended the Strategic Committee dedicated to Corsica, the Ministry of Spatial Planning, Éric Jalon does not ignore that he arrives on the thread of an extremely sensitive political sequence.
He will, in turn, have to accompany elected officials on the path started since March 2022. To manage, between so many others, hot files, including that of the plan of transformation, innovation and investment for Corsica (PTIC). To work the ground, more than elsewhere.
“Above all, he will be in the rails and will do what we ask him “, believes to know François Pupponi who believes that the three prefects occupied by Éric Jalon before Corsica – Prefect of Savoy, Charente -Maritime, Essonne – constitute an asset on the eve of its entry into island territory.
Others, on the other hand, fine connoisseurs of nationalist claims, are more quick to worry about the proximity of the newcomer with the tenant of Place Beauvau.
Passed by the ministerial offices of Nicolas Sarkozy and Édouard Philippe
“There is obviously a recovery of the Corsican file by Bruno Retailleau who has varied his position as an iota on Corsica, the red lines included. The latter is on the same position as the Council of State, refusing the granting of a legislative power. This may not arrange the affairs of pro-autonomy”.
Éric Jalon has also carried out functions within ministerial offices. Between 2005 and 2007, he was technical advisor to the office of the Minister of State, Minister of the Interior and Regional Planning, Nicolas Sarkozy.
Between 2017 and 2020, he became an advisor for domestic affairs in the Prime Minister’s office, then Édouard Philippe, and followed the island’s affairs.
After that of Eric Jalon, another appointment should take place this time in Haute-Corse, where the prefect Michel Prosic, in office for almost three years, should also be replaced.
