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The Minister for Overseas Territories, Naïma Moutchou, at Matignon, in Paris, October 13, 2025.

Economic chapter, political deadlock: in New Caledonia, the Minister for Overseas Territories, Naïma Moutchou, begins a high-risk journey for per week on Monday, November 10. She has needed to mobilize on the difficulty, since taking workplace in mid-October, with a double issue. Having been referred to as by a main minister, Sébastien Lecornu, who, in Nouméa, reassures the loyalist right-wing events, however worries the moderates and the separatists. And inherit, as a supposed neophyte, an institutional mission that Manuel Valls, his predecessor, piloted with authority however with out with the ability to conclude it – the so-called Bougival settlement, signed in July to create a future State of New Caledonia, key to a lastly steady future for the territory.

This July political mission, too shortly described as“historic agreement” by the manager in Paris, stays for the second held in test. The easy title of Bougival has turn out to be radioactive for the Kanak and Socialist Liberation Front (FLNKS) in keeping with which it doesn’t reply to the train of the best to self-determination. Validated by the Constitutional Council on November 6, the postponement of the November provincial elections (to June 28, 2026 on the newest) ought to make it attainable to place the work again into observe to amend it.

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