Sonia Backès: “New Caledonia must once again become a territory where democracy applies” “The inhabitants of the Southern province, largely non-independence, who represent three-quarters of the population and create more than 90% of the territory's wealth, are under-represented. Their voice, neglected, weighs 2.5 times less than that of an island inhabitant! A reality however contrary to the jurisprudence of the Constitutional Council,” she says.
“This iniquitous system of variable geometry democracy has reached the end of its justifications”