After the hiccups over Mayotte which marked his first steps in Matignon, François Bayrou endeavored to promote the overseas issue during his general policy speech. “I considered that this subject should be promoted to the rank of the nation’s primary concern,” he said in the introduction, before rolling out a handful of general announcements. Namely first, a resumption of “political process” in New Caledonia. “I will invite the political forces to come to Paris at the end of January to open negotiations”he explained, specifying that the latter should “achieve at the end of the quarter”. Each of the overseas communities will also be defined “a development and financing plan within the framework of a new interministerial committee for overseas territories that the Minister of State will prepare with the elected representatives of these territories”, reveals the Prime Minister.
On Mayotte, Béarn
