Isn’t it legally just a perfectly ordinary département of France, formally indistinguishable from Île-de-France or similar? France has a weird fetish for insisting that its most far-flung possessions are not one iota less quintessentially French than anywhere in l’Hexagone
Isn’t it legally just a perfectly ordinary département of France, formally indistinguishable from Île-de-France or similar? France has a weird fetish for insisting that its most far-flung possessions are not one iota less quintessentially French than anywhere in l’Hexagone
It’s a region of France but it has a specific status given the distance, and their own parliament of 55 elected officials
Afaik, Mayotte, Martinique, and Corsica also have the same status and their own parliament
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_territorial_collectivity
Ask people in those “far-flung possessions” whether they agree!