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Supporters and opponents of the federal government's challenge to broaden the electoral lists demonstrated Thursday in Nouméa. At problem: a deliberate thaw of the electoral lists, frozen since 1998 for the good thing about the Kanaks, the indigenous individuals of New Caledonia who’ve turn out to be a minority within the territory.

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