New Caledonia: Postponement of provincial elections continues to spark debate
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CCAT activists demonstrate in Noumea (New Caledonia) after the postponement of the provincial elections was approved on October 25. DELPHINE MAYEUR / Hans Lucas via AFP
A joint committee is scheduled to examine the proposed organic law on the postponement of provincial elections in New Caledonia on Monday, October 27. Supported by the government, the bill has not met with unanimous support, either in Paris or in Noumea, where the FLNKS separatists are calling for the vote to be held as early as November.
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I subscribeFor the Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front (FLNKS), this is a "denial of democracy." For Philippe Gosselin, LR rapporteur of this text, it is on the contrary "a political response to a political approach." A joint committee (CMP), bringing together seven deputies and seven senators in the Senate, is to examine on Monday, October 27, the proposed organic law aimed at postponing the provincial elections in New Caledonia.
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