National Assembly decides on the postponement of the provincial elections in New Caledonia. This is a prerequisite for the uncertain and much more sensitive constitutional reform.
The new deadline is “reasonable to give local political negotiations a chance to succeed,” says Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin. The government is working on a constitutional reform which promises to be much more tense since the two main Caledonian independence parties are opposed to it at this stage. It plans to unfreeze the electorate in order to open provincial elections.