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France considers reform for New Caledonia
The lower house voted 190-107 against a constitutional bill that would have created a Caledonian state and changed voting rules, officials said.
- On Thursday, the French National Assembly rejected a Constitutional Reform Bill for New Caledonia by a vote of 190 to 107, blocking a government effort to grant the overseas territory partial statehood.
- Emmanuel Tjibaou, an indigenous Kanak pro-independence leader, led the rejection motion, arguing the bill was "not consensual" and "symbolic" because his party, the Socialist Kanak National Liberation Front , opposed the text.
- Far-Right parliamentary leader Marine Le Pen called the bill "dangerous for national unity," while the FLNKS criticized the proposal as a "lure" of independence amounting to "logic of assimilation."
- Naima Moutchou, France's minister for overseas territories, warned the rejection would bring negotiations "years backwards," while French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu announced signatories of the Bougival-Elysée-Oudinot Accord will meet next week.
- With the reform stalled, officials face mounting pressure to resolve voter eligibility for upcoming provincial elections, which must occur no later than June 28, 2026, in the 270,000-person archipelago.
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The National Assembly rejected from the outset, and without surprise, on Thursday, 2 April, the draft constitutional reform aimed at reforming the status of New Caledonia. The text, supposed to reflect the Bougival agreement supported by several political forces in New Caledonia but not by the main independence movement, was rejected by opposition groups by a motion of rejection as soon as it entered the Chamber (190 votes to 107). Prime Ministe…
Unsurprisingly, the draft constitutional reform for New Caledonia was rejected at the outset by the National Assembly, which aims to translate the Bougival agreement, which is supported by
Unsurprisingly, this Thursday, April 2, the Assembly adopted a motion of rejection, preventing any debate on the constitutional bill. A camouflage for the government that denounces a "form of motion of contempt".
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