behind financial reconstruction, the federal government reopens the political file | EUROtoday

Reopening the political problem of the long run standing of New Caledonia whereas avoiding the instant financial collapse of the territory: the go to of the Minister for Overseas Territories to Nouméa, from Wednesday October 16 to Saturday October 19, was fraught with challenges. Will the cautious character of François-Noël Buffet, former native elected official and skilled president of the Senate Law Committee, who had warned of the dangers posed by the Caledonian coverage of the earlier authorities, permit us to maneuver ahead?

When the rebel broke out on May 13, “men and women no longer understood each other, abruptly letting go of the dialogue and the agreements of Matignon [en 1988] and Nouméa [en 1998] »noted Mr. Buffet, Thursday October 17, at the Tjibaou cultural center. For him, it is now a matter of “people talk to each other”For “build a solid project for the future”.

Until December 2024, 650 million euros can have been superior by the State (excluding the nickel disaster), and the minister promised the “continuation of the State’s commitment” to avoid wasting the New Caledonian economic system – together with 100% duty for the rehabilitation of destroyed faculty buildings and 70% of that of different public infrastructure. Partial unemployment will proceed to be financed till the tip of 2024. In the midst of a parliamentary battle over the finance invoice for 2025, the bulletins, nevertheless, stopped there.

Came “objectivize the needs to better defend the case in Paris”the minister thus aroused the robust disappointment of financial circles. “We waited two months for a government, and the response given demonstrates a huge gap between the position of the State and the situation, which is explosivealerts Mimsy Daly, president of Medef-New Caledonia. However, the responsibility of the State for the level of destruction in this territory is engaged, because there was a failure in the exercise of protection of property and people. »

“Need for visibility”

After an independence rebel galvanized by social inequalities, the 2 points, financial and political, are extra linked than ever. Because the disaster has strengthened an concept, even past the independence camp: the sovereignty of the territory shall be expanded, and its hyperlinks with France developed throughout the framework of a “partnership-independence” or an “independence-association” .

A time to renew the political dialogue opens till the tip of 2025, defined the minister, because of the postponement of the provincial elections which the Senate ought to vote on October 23, and the National Assembly on November 6. The mission led by the presidents of the 2 assemblies to Nouméa in mid-November will make it attainable to specify the content material and timetable of the dialogue.

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