“There is no lasting solution, ensuring peace, stability and development, without a consensual and inclusive agreement” | EUROtoday

HASLooking again at historical past and the current, socialists have an obligation to proceed the work of decolonization undertaken in New Caledonia. Former prime ministers Michel Rocard and Lionel Jospin had been in a position to create the situations for a secure, peaceable and affluent future, in assured relations with France.

The draft constitutional legislation on New Caledonia, submitted to Parliament from February 18, is at the moment fraught with threats and risks, whereas the territory goes by way of an unprecedented financial and social disaster. The authorities venture plans to constitutionalize the Bougival settlement of July 2025, supplemented by the so-called Elysée-Oudinot settlement in January, with none visibility – opposite to the commitments made – on the content material of the natural invoice translating them. In different phrases, the constituent is invited to determine blindly.

It additionally entails a fourth postponement of the provincial elections, circumventing a call of the Constitutional Council of September 2025. Parliament had however ordered in November 2025, in the course of the third postponement, to hunt a consensual settlement on the institutional way forward for New Caledonia, by bringing the Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front (FLNKS) again to the dialogue desk. The hazardous and aborted try at an early session and the situations through which the discussions in January 2026 had been performed went in opposition to this requirement and closed the door that Parliament had opened. Furthermore, this postponement was the final for us: it’s not potential, in a democracy, to postpone elections indefinitely. So it’s time to recall some fundamentals.

First of all, there isn’t any lasting resolution, making certain peace, stability and growth in New Caledonia, with out a consensual and inclusive settlement. Despite the present empty chair coverage of the Caledonian Union (UC)-FLNKS, it’s not potential to go away them out of this settlement.

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