Tag: French constitution
FLNKS mayor wins run-off poll to take unprecedented French Senate seat
By Nic Maclellan
In a major electoral upset, Kanak independence politician Robert Xowie has won one of Kanaky New Caledonia’s two seats in the French...
Macron to ditch Noumea Accord for self-determination and introduce new statute...
By Eleisha Foon, RNZ Pacific contributing journalist
French president Emmanuel Macron says he will forge ahead with processing a new statute for New Caledonia, replacing...
France briefs UN on New Caledonia decolonisation impasse
By Walter Zweifel, RNZ Pacific reporter
French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin has invited the United Nations Decolonisation Committee members to visit New Caledonia.
Controlled by France...
FLNKS congress held ahead of ‘high stakes’ future talks with France
RNZ Pacific
New Caledonia's pro-independence FLNKS movement is holding its congress this weekend to prepare its position for the bilateral talks scheduled with French Interior...
‘Up to French people’ to decide on New Caledonia’s future, says...
RNZ Pacific
An Australian-based French law professor says it is up to the French people as a whole, and not the voters in New Caledonia,...
France’s New Caledonia policy labelled a ‘catastrophe’ by left leader
RNZ Pacific
A leftwing candidate in the French presidential race, Jean-Luc Melenchon, says the outcome of New Caledonia's independence referendum is a catastrophe.
He held a...