US EditionNew Caledonia: Government Abandons Early Consultation Project
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Emmanuel Macron is expected to reunite the territory's political forces in mid-January 2026 in Paris, while the FLNKS president returned to Paris with an independent delegation to try to convince parliamentarians to give up the Bougival agreement.
The French state has decided to forego the consultation on the institutional fit of New Caledonia, initially scheduled for March 15, 2026. The bill that was supposed to allow the referendum will not be approved by the council of ministers on Wednesday following the finding of political opposition and lack of consensus in both the archipelago and the French parliament. The consultation was intended to validate the Bougival agreement, signed last …
The Minister of Overseas Affairs, Naïma Moutchou, at the Elysée, in Paris, on 10 December 2025. BERTRAND GUAY/AFP The next Council of Ministers of 17 December will not adopt, as planned, the bill on an early consultation of New Caledonians, which the government wished to call for a decision on 15 March 2026 on "the Bougival agreement". The executive for the moment renounces this contested initiative, according to information from the World.
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