Sonia Backès, the leader of the pro-France
Leader of the loyalists, close to the Republicans, Sonia Backès presides over the most populous and richest province of New Caledonia: the South Province, the last leading institution in the hands of non-independence activists.
This 45-year-old computer engineer has been working her political ascent since her first election to Congress, the archipelago's legislative body, in 2009. Her loyalist coalition of traditional right-wing parties, The Confident Future, has come to dominate the moderate right of his rival Philippe Gomès in the 2019 provincial elections, the most important local ballot.
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Renowned as a worker, Sonia Backès embodies a right with explicit principles: anchoring New Caledonia in France, strengthening security, economic recovery.
She never ceases to warn against the prospect of a
"new binary referendum",
not hesitating to point out a risk of
"civil war"
: according to her, an organization
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