This was the explosive challenge of the spring, which like others, has been pushed into the background for the reason that dissolution. New Caledonia is as soon as once more going through a surge in violence for the reason that arrest of independence activists linked to the Cellule de coordination des actions de terrain (CCAT) on Wednesday. In the course of the night time of Saturday and Sunday, seven of the eleven individuals arrested had been transferred to prisons in mainland France, together with the CCAT spokesperson, Christian Tein, resulting in additional violence final night time. The CCAT demanded “the discharge and quick return” of its activists in order that they might possibly be “judged on their land” and denounced France’s “colonial ways”.
“The majority of the abuses befell within the city of Dumbea (north of the city space of Nouméa) the police headquarters was set on hearth, no circulation is feasible and the faculties are closed,” testifies the senator (LR ) non-independence, Georges Naturel. The general public prosecutor of Nouméa, Yves Dupas indicated {that a} 23-year-old man had misplaced his life through the night time following going to roadblocks in Nouméa. A motorist “compelled to show round attributable to a roadblock constructed by independence activists”, in accordance with firefighters, additionally died following a head-on collision with one other car in Païta, within the city space of Nouméa.
“The additional postponement of the provincial elections is inevitable”
A name for a return to the tactic which had ruled the Matignon and Nouméa agreements. As a result of for the reason that begin of this disaster, the governmental verticality which consists of imposing a constitutional reform from above on native actors has been contested from one finish of the Senate hemicycle to the opposite. “To emerge from this disaster, we should reconnect with the lucidity, impartiality and humility which have prevailed since 1988. We should instantly create a mission of dialogue between all Caledonian companions and the State. […] “We should attain a worldwide tripartite settlement with out an ultimatum,” argued the president of the PS group within the Senate, Patrick Kanner, throughout present affairs inquiries to the federal government on 15 Could.
“The dissolution is admittedly unhealthy timing. We really feel like we have been deserted. Discussions can solely resume following July 7. New Caledonia suffered a political, financial and social disaster. 900 companies had been broken or destroyed through the riots. It has been weeks since we have been capable of return to regular life. We should begin the method from the start via a worldwide settlement to reform the electoral physique,” argues Georges Naturel.
“The constitutional reform is out of date and nothing has been resolved”
“The way in which by which the Caledonian topic was approached is evocative of the best way by which the federal government workout routines energy. Any longer, the constitutional reform is out of date and nothing has been resolved. The state of affairs may be very worrying however by transferring CCAT leaders to mainland France, the chief might have anticipated it,” observes the president of the Communist Republican Citizen and Ecologist – Kanaky group within the Senate, Cécile Cukierman.
The New Caledonian topic appears to have taken a once more seat to the legislative marketing campaign. The New Common Entrance advocates the abandonment of the constitutional invoice. “It’s a sturdy gesture of appeasement which can permit us to seek out the trail to dialogue and the seek for consensus. By means of the mission of dialogue within the spirit of the Matignon and Nouméa agreements,” we will learn in this system. This Monday, Jordan Bardella restricted himself to recalling that his “political household has traditionally all the time been legal professionals and defenders of French Caledonia”. “We stay in favor of thawing the electoral physique. What we criticized, nevertheless, was the tactic and the timetable,” he underlined, additionally advocating a dialogue mission.
Throughout his press convention final week, Gabriel Attal, who only a month in the past was in a rush to regain management of this challenge from the opposition, didn’t point out the topic.
“There are not any public conferences, the marketing campaign is especially on social networks”
For the legislative elections, the 2 outgoing deputies of the bulk are leaving in a scattered order. Nicolas Metzdorf, who was rapporteur of the constitutional invoice, was not invested by Renaissance and isn’t operating, in contrast to in 2022, within the second constituency, however within the first, in opposition to his ally of yesterday, Philippe Dunoyer, invested by Horizons. He thus leaves the place within the second constituency to Alcide Ponga, president of the Rassemblement-Les Républicains who will oppose one other loyalist candidate, the previous senator of the centrist group, Gérard Poadja. Observe that one other former senator, Simon Loueckhote, is operating within the first constituency beneath the banner of the RN.
However as within the European elections, there’s a concern that the vote will happen in a local weather of pressure. “There are not any public conferences, the marketing campaign is especially on social networks,” says Georges Naturel. “We should be certain that common suffrage might be expressed. That is all of the extra vital as a result of tensions exist. We are able to rely on the mayors and the excessive commissioner to make sure that the vote goes easily,” hopes Philippe Bas.