New Caledonia is approaching the final deadline with uncertainty.
The horizon of the third and last referendum on independence scheduled before October 2022, the conclusion of a long and unique process of decolonization, accentuates the tensions between the two opposing camps in the archipelago of the South Pacific.
Faced with pro-France loyalists, the separatists strengthened their positions in February, by bringing down and then ravishing the government, for the first time in their hands - but still without a president, for lack of agreement between them.
What is the new political landscape of this territory of 280,000 inhabitants?
Powerful levers in the hands of the flnks
The government, the Congress, two out of three provinces: an unprecedented fact in New Caledonia, the separatists hold four of the five main levers of local power.
Only the southern province, where Noumea is located, the richest and most populous of the archipelago, with a non-Kanake majority, is governed by the loyalists around Sonia Backès.
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