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The Minister for Overseas Territories, Naïma Moutchou, in Nouméa, November 13, 2025.

Naïma Moutchou was anticipated on help to the archipelago, whose financial system was dropped at the bottom by the violence of 2024. She left with out having introduced a euro of extra help, however by posing a political ultimatum, within the hope of getting the controversial Bougival settlement on the long run standing of the territory out of the rut.

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By defending the textual content, the Overseas Minister, who’s having her baptism of fireside on this thorny challenge, should assume the legacy of her predecessor. Manuel Valls had snatched a “commitment to defend a draft agreement” of all New Caledonian companions, on July 12, after ten days behind closed doorways in a resort in Yvelines. THE ” Yes “ given lip service by the Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front (FLNKS) in a short time remodeled into ” No “ categorical, earlier than the activists definitively buried the textual content through the motion’s congress on August 9.

Since then, the textual content has suffered quite a few setbacks: the autumn of the Bayrou authorities delayed the presentation of the constitutional reform to Parliament, making it unattainable to undertake earlier than the top of the yr. Its promoter, Manuel Valls, is now not in authorities. And if the postponement of the provincial elections to June 2026 was adopted on the final minute, it’s now not, on the initiative of the socialist group, “in order to implement the Bougival agreement”however with the goal of “allow the emergence of a consensual agreement”.

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