ANALYSIS – The head of state is accused of having used the strong method on electoral reform, the detonator of the violence, while his former adversary is trying to maintain a line of appeasement, breaking with his party’s historic strategy.
Some signs are unmistakable. On Thursday October 3, Marine Le Pen was tense as she received Sonia Backès at the French National Assembly. Emmanuel Macron’s former Secretary of State for Citizenship, a figure of the Loyalist right in New Caledonia, spoke of the riots, the 13 dead, the urgent need for reconstruction, the coming social crisis and the difficult relationship with the pro-independence Kanaks. The discussion became tense when she defended one of her fixed ideas to the former presidential candidate: strengthening the powers of the archipelago’s three provinces. Marine Le Pen rejects this proposal, likening it, like the pro-independence movement and its moderate opponents, to a form of ” partition “of this ultra-divided territory.
The leader of the RN deputies affirms that she has only one objective for New Caledonia: “the creation of a new French colony”. unity “to avoid a ” community versus community “. A…
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