2024-05-12 23:27:02
It is a very, very high risk text which arrives this Monday, May 13 in the hemicycle of the National Assembly. MPs will examine the draft constitutional law aimed at expanding the electorate in New Caledonia‘s provincial elections. A text already voted by the Senate on April 2, which – to allow the convening of a Congress with a view to revising the Constitution – will have to be adopted in the same terms by the Palais-Bourbon.
The archipelago’s separatists are up in arms against this reform which plans to allow residents who have lived for at least ten years to vote in provincial elections. In short, to return to the freezing of the electorate since the Nouméa agreements. “The Kanaks do not want to be drowned,” summarizes Roch Wamytan, traditional independence leader and president of the Congress of New Caledonia.
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