Officials elected from New Caledonia in Paris to receive a firm commitment from the State on reconstruction

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2024-09-25 18:08:45

Milakulo Tukumuli, leader of Eveil Ocanien, the party that took the presidency of the Congress of New Caledonia, in Matignon, in Paris, September 6, 2023.

It is to the State, first, that their demands are addressed, after four and a half months of unrest in New Caledonia: the representatives of the political parties of the Caledonian Parliament are in Paris to ask for a large reconstruction program and alert on a major emergency that hit the region, a few days before the announcement of the general policy of the Prime Minister, Michel Barnier.

After voting in favor of such a system at the end of August in Nouméa, these elected representatives won their share to alert the National Assembly and the Senate to the dangers of the total integration of the New Caledonian economy and society. They speak almost in unison, from the Caledonian Union (UC), a member of the Kanak and the Socialist National Liberation Front (FLNKS) to the Rassemblement-Les Républicains (LR). The only thing missing in Paris was the Loyalists of Sonia Backès (who wanted to play a solo concert at the beginning of September), but they voted for the plan. And the National Liberation Party-Palika, which refused to do so but did not oppose it. This ambitious reconstruction program, 4.2 billion euros over five years, is intended to be compared to the one sent in Saint-Martin and Saint-Barthélémy in 2017 after the cyclone Irma, an effort equal to half of GDP region.

It is with the president of the National Rally group in the National Assembly, Marine Le Pen, the discussions began on Tuesday, September 24, and we made an appointment with all the leaders of the parliamentary parties between now and October 3. For the first time, the President of the Parliament, Gérard Larcher, prefers to his tête-à-tête with Caledonians a meeting with party leaders, general budget representative, foreign representative and committee (LR ) Philippe Bas represented. of the Law Commission. On the other hand, three officials authorized by the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, at the end of May reported, behind closed doors, to the “contact group of New Caledonia” of the President of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun -Pivet .

“We must work!”

“This group of elected officials who completely contradict themselves is here to make us understand that New Caledonia is on the brink of the abyss.Reacts MP Stéphane Lenormand, President of Freedoms, Liberties, International and Regions, at the end of the meeting on Wednesday. Our first big issue will be the budget and the situation in France is not growing either. But it is one of the subjects, with Mayotte, on which we cannot stop. »

“The solution is in Paris, we must do it! »press Jean-Jacques Urvoas, who will have Tan discuss with the representatives in a few days, in the houses of Manuel Valls and Dominique Bussereau, all three former president of the work on the future institutions of New Caledonia in the Assembly.

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