Michel Barnier will travel to New Caledonia “when the time comes”

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Prime Minister Michel Barnier announced that he would go to New Caledonia “when the time comes”, hoping to find a “path of appeasement”. Since May, the archipelago has been facing the worst riots on its soil in 40 years.

Prime Minister Michel Barnier announced, in an interview with the Tribune Sundaythat he would go to New Caledonia “when the time comes”, hoping to find a “path of appeasement” thanks to the measures planned in his general policy declaration.

“We will take the time, at least a year, to discuss it again”

These two measures are “the postponement of the elections which were planned and the non-referral to Congress to ratify the initially planned thaw of the electoral body”, he recalled.

“We will take the time, at least a year, to re-discuss it and find a new balance. We can rebuild a dialogue between all communities,” he said, recalling that the President of the National Assembly Yaël Braun -Pivet and his Senate counterpart Gérard Larcher would carry out a good offices mission in the archipelago. “I will go to New Caledonia myself when the time comes because I think it is the responsibility of a Prime Minister,” he added.

The worst riots in 40 years

The electoral reform project, led by Emmanuel Macron and Gérald Darmanin, triggered the worst riots in 40 years in New Caledonia starting in May, leaving 13 dead, including two gendarmes. Enormous economic damage is also to be deplored. It was a question of expanding the electoral body – frozen since 2007 – for the provincial elections to residents of the archipelago for 10 years, at the risk according to the separatists of marginalizing the indigenous Kanak people.

These provincial elections, crucial on the archipelago, were to be held by December 15 after having been postponed for the first time, in the absence of consensus on the electorate.

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