The assembly which should be held in videoconferencing, Friday April 11, between Manuel Valls, the separatists and the non-independence guarantees to be stormy. On the menu, the chapter “Right to self-determination” of the draft settlement on a brand new standing, which the Minister of Overseas needs to see adopted upon his return to New Caledonia, on the finish of April.
The topic is extraordinarily delicate, and the doc – that The world might seek the advice of – handed over by Manuel Valls to the members, on March 30, doesn’t settle the issue: if the suitable to self -determination is nicely maintained, it could be the vote of three fifths of the congress, the deliberative meeting of the territory, to have the ability to suggest a referendum. The separatists, who right now maintain rather less than half of the seats within the congress, ought to due to this fact mobilize far past their camp. This might be all of the extra sophisticated because the settlement supplies for a change in distribution of the seats. A reform imagined to make it potential to raised stick with the demographic realities of the territory, however which might make the independence illustration fall. At the danger of them, that the train of this proper, though inscribing within the standing of the territory, is actually unattainable to train.
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