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New Caledonia: Marine Le Pen not invited to discussions at the Élysée Palace on the future of the archipelago

New Caledonia: Marine Le Pen not invited to discussions at the Élysée Palace on the future of the archipelago
The leader of the National Rally deputies visited New Caledonia in May and considered the government's proposal on the political future of the ultra-morning territory to be "a failure."

A wish that was not granted. During a trip to Noumea in May 2025, Marine Le Pen had requested to be involved in discussions on the chaotic political and economic situation in New Caledonia . A request reiterated in a letter sent to the President of the Republic upon her return.

But according to our information, Marine Le Pen received a rejection on Wednesday, July 2, also by letter, from the Élysée Palace and will ultimately not participate in the discussions announced in May by Emmanuel Macron.

Riots erupted in the archipelago last year between May and December 2024 following a proposed reform of the Caledonian electoral body . The aim was to expand the electoral body, frozen since 2007, for the crucial provincial elections in the archipelago, to include natives or residents of the territory for the past 10 years, at the risk of marginalizing the indigenous Kanak people, according to the separatists.

In light of these tensions, the leader of the National Rally deputies visited the country last May and proposed a new "method" of talks to the political forces of New Caledonia.

Interviewed by BFMTV-RMC, Marine Le Pen described the government's proposal on the archipelago's political future as a "failure," which she said focused "exclusively on institutional reform."

Before arriving at this proposal, the Minister for Overseas Territories, Manuel Valls, had attempted to find an agreement between the pro-independence and non-pro-independence groups on a new status for New Caledonia.

Since 1988, New Caledonia has been engaged in a difficult, phased process of decolonization. Faced with the current impasse, Emmanuel Macron has convened local stakeholders for a summit that began Wednesday in Paris .

The Élysée Palace said it hoped for an agreement between the Caledonian independence movement and loyalists "in the coming days or weeks."

The fault lines between the two camps remain deep, however, and the outcome of this summit called for by Emmanuel Macron, which brings together the various New Caledonian political forces, the main local elected officials and representatives of the economic and social world, remains very uncertain.

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