It's a bit like the world upside down.
This third referendum, it was the separatists who demanded it;
it is they who are boycotting it today.
As for the loyalists, they did not ask for it;
they applaud his maintenance.
Hence this paradox: the vote of December 12 had to be tight;
there is no longer any suspense.
But the future of the archipelago has never seemed so uncertain.
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To understand, we have to go back to the long process of "decolonization" launched by the Nouméa Accord of 1998, itself the fruit of the Matignon Accord of 1988. After gradual transfers of sovereignty, a referendum was to ask the ultimate question. of
"access to the full sovereignty"
of New Caledonia, and of an
"independent state"
.
In November 2018, the no was imposed by 56.7%.
A second vote was scheduled.
In October 2020, the no won again, but with a narrower margin (53.3%).
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A third referendum was possible, but not compulsory.
It is the separatists who
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