While Manuel Valls has just been appointed Minister for Overseas, the Caledonia ensemble movement has resigned from the collegial government at the head of New Caledonia, leading to the fall of the local executive.
Bayrou gains a government, New Caledonia loses its own. The Caledonia ensemble movement resigned this Tuesday, December 24 from the collegial government at the head of the territory, leading to the fall of the local executive.
In a resignation letter addressed to the president of Louis Mapou's government, the loyalist Calédonie ensemble party, affiliated with Renaissance, indicates that “since the events of May 13, the country has fallen into deep economic and social distress. In such circumstances, solidarity between institutions, first and foremost the government and the Congress of New Caledonia, constitutes an ardent obligation “.
Jérémie Katidjo-Monnier, member of the resigning government, deplores that “the government which comes from Congress, which is the executive of the country, has transformed, over time, into an independent body, and particularly from the political groups of the Congress from which it comes, whether they are elsewhere separatists and non-separatists alike.report our colleagues from Monde.
A “very difficult situation for the inhabitants of the island”
These deep divisions come after six months of political and social crisis, but also insurrectional tensions which left 13 dead, caused by a project to reform the electoral body. Supporters of independence judge that the “thaw” risks “minorizing” the indigenous Kanak people, who represent more than 41% of the population.
Last spring, the Minister for Overseas Territories, Marie Guénevoux, described a situation which “remained very difficult for the inhabitants of the island, particularly in Greater Nouméa”. The state then decided to postpone the provincial elections scheduled for this year, to November 2025.
Returning to the National Assembly after a political failure on Catalan soil, Manuel Valls, newly appointed to the Ministry of Overseas Territories, will be in charge of this very thorny issue. Last April, the Barcelonan affirmed that “the separatists have the memory of the link with [Matignon]this place where the greatest agreements of the past were developed”. Since then, he has advocated prior adoption of the constitutional text which aims to expand the electorate in provincial elections, then a mission of dialogue with the Caledonians, evoking their “very great autonomy and a strong place with the metropolis”.
Pending the appointment of a new executive, the current president, the independentist Louis Mapou, will handle current affairs.
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