2023-07-26 07:14:25
The objective of the Elysée before this trip was very clear: the “gathering”. In this context, Emmanuel Macron said he wanted “early 2024” a “revision of the Constitution” for New Caledonia, referring in particular to the thawing of the electorate in the short term thanks to a “new status”, this Wednesday, July 26, during of a speech in Nouméa.
“I ask you to start working to bring about full and complete citizenship based on a social contract, made up of duties and rights (…) of belonging to the Caillou”, detailed the head of state. , explaining that he wanted to build this “new status” in “the months, the quarters to come” and “in consensus”.
“The Path of Forgiveness”
The president proposed to Caledonians to take “the path of forgiveness” and that “of the future”, calling to look history “in the face”.
“It is a path that we must travel together (…) It is not a path of repentance, it is a path of fraternity, truth and courage”, pleaded the Head of State, mentioning “a past that does not want to pass”.
“Accept” the results of the three referendums
“New Caledonia is French because it has chosen to remain French”, declared Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday in Nouméa, saying not to “underestimate the disappointed aspirations of those who defended a completely different project”.
In front of the Place de la Paix in the Caledonian capital, the Head of State called on all parties to have “the greatness to accept” the results of the three referendums, claiming to want to be “the president of a new project (. ..) that of New Caledonia in the Republic”.
He deplored the absence at a meeting on Wednesday at the High Commission for the Territory of separatist officials, saying he was “personally hurt”, while a few whistles were heard in the audience. Emmanuel Macron warned against the choice to “take refuge in separatism” and the “risk of violence” that it poses. “No backtracking, no stuttering, no standing still,” he said.
Separatists did not attend the meeting
Some of the separatists, and in particular political representatives of the Union Calédonienne (UC), the main separatist force, as well as the president of the Congress Roch Wamytan, did not participate on Wednesday morning in the meeting to which Emmanuel Macron had invited the political actors on both sides.
If officials from all sides were nevertheless around the same table, at the High Commissioner for Territory, Emmanuel Macron made it clear at the start of the meeting that it was not a question of a “formal trilateral” negotiation with the State, whose separatists have still not accepted the principle.
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