Requests for postponement and calls for a boycott will not have been enough.
By maintaining the third and final referendum on the independence of New Caledonia for December 12, the government refused to give in to the separatists.
But the showdown is not over: at the origin of the demand for the ballot, members of the Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front (FLNKS) announced that they will challenge the results.
While the vote was to end a process of decolonization of more than thirty years, this showdown gives rise to fear of an interminable soap opera.
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The executive argues for improving the health situation in the Pacific archipelago,
"the only criterion"
put forward at the top of the state to maintain or postpone the poll.
There is therefore nothing to prevent the consultation from being held on schedule.
"The health crisis is under control",
explained Friday the High Commissioner of the Republic, Patrice Faure, traveling in the independentist commune of Ponérihouen
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