Nationalist leader Jean Guy Talimoni casts his ballot, July 6, 2003, in
a referendum on limited autonomy from mainland France almost 30 years
after a deadly gunbattle between separatists and police plunged the
Mediterranean island into lawlessness. Around 191,000 voters are being
asked whether they want to scrap two administrative departments and
back changes that would give an assembly of locally elected politicians
in the southwestern city of Ajaccio more say over tax, tourism and the
environment. REUTERS/Pierre Murati

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