“You have a French role to play in this part of the world. You are a piece of France. You are southern France, and you must in peace, as you did in war, be for our entire national community an example, an example of effort, fraternity and progress. ”
This was Charles de Gaulle's address in September 1966 to our compatriots in New Caledonia. Half a century later, as the Caledonians prepare to vote on independence for the third time since the Nouméa accord
(In application of the Matignon agreements (1988), modified by the Nouméa agreement (1998), two referendums were called in 2018 and 2020 and won by the loyalists, but a final referendum, the possibility of which was provided for by the Nouméa accord, requested by the separatists, will take place on December 12. It should be noted that prior to the Matignon accords, a first referendum on the independence of New Caledonia took place in 1987 ...
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