“In New Caledonia, the State signs a check for reconstruction and obtains a sustainable stowage in France in exchange” | EUROtoday

“The bet of confidence”such is the title of the settlement handed on July 12, in Bougival (Yvelines), between the State and the political companions of New Caledonia. Eighteen Caledonians from all stripes signed with Manuel Valls, the Minister of Overseas, a doc enamelled with ambiguities and unsaid, supposed to take over from the Noumea settlement [de 1998]. He refounds the relationships between the State and the archipelago, which turns into the“New Caledonia State”a human and geographic neighborhood remaining beneath the supervision of France.

Still on the venture stadium, the efficient implementation of the settlement is not going to solely assume the membership of the Caledonians, but in addition of our parliamentarians, referred to as, from the autumn, to legislate to postpone provincial elections and combine this contractual settlement into the normative institutional corpus. This textual content is subsequently a daring wager on the malleability of our regulation and the pliability of our elected officers. A wager that might even show to be dangerous within the face of a Kanak youth to whom he proposes as a prospect of the long run a hit of state.

After the assertion of the principle ideas which underlie it, the settlement is predicated on two pillars, the institutional future and assist for the financial system. This final half was definitely decisive within the seek for consensus. The rescue plan for the nickel sector, the sanitation of public funds, the progressive and conditional discount in debt, in addition to the restoration of social accounts weighed closely within the negotiation. While all of those issues are the unique jurisdiction of New Caledonia, the State indicators a test for the reconstruction of the nation and obtains in alternate for a long-lasting stowage from New Caledonia to France.

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This would require new preparations. So far, the sprains that the Noumea settlement had imposed on our ideas of a one and indivisible Republic had been supported, even admitted, as a result of character “Transitory” of title XIII of the Constitution dedicated to New Caledonia. On the opposite hand, the lasting registration of the“New Caledonia State” Within the Constitution might trigger actual authorized difficulties. The constituent energy should look into it.

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