In New Caledonia, Manuel Valls within the face of the contradictions of a fractured firm | EUROtoday

The opening ceremony of the 27^e Cerf and Boulouparis shrimp celebration, an hour from Noumea, is a contented neo-Caledonian syncretism. Ukulele and crown of flowers on the pinnacle, the Polynesian group Taratoni performs Tahitian waltzes and takes up classics Caldoches. On the pandanus fiber mat arrested on the bottom for the customized of hey, a gesture which consists within the Kanak custom to current themselves to customary managers “Guardian of the place”, the representatives of the customary Senate and the customary space Xârâcùù (title within the vernacular of the area on which Boulouparis relies upon) have deposited a yam, a sacred tuber, Precious, an indication of the significance given to the go to of Manuel Valls, the Minister of Overseas. The latter made his third go to to New Caledonia: negotiations on the way forward for the archipelago should resume on Monday May 5.

Right subsequent to it, along with the standard materials that symbolize the hyperlink that’s established between guests and their hosts, the farmers within the area have positioned irons to mark the cattle, that any New Caledonian of European origin born on a breeding station has, in the identical approach because the hat and the whip. The irons had been solid within the type of “M” and “V”, the initials of Manuel Valls.

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