The subsequent council of ministers on December 17 won’t undertake, as deliberate, the invoice on an early session of New Caledonians, which the federal government needed to name to resolve on March 15, 2026 on the “Bougival agreement”. The government is renouncing this contested initiative in the meanwhile, in accordance with info from World.
Signed in July between the State, the separatists and the non-independenceists, the Bougival draft settlement making a State of New Caledonia within the French Constitution was rejected by the Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front (FLNKS) and, in accordance with nearly all of the signatory political forces, it have to be amended to acquire a vital consensus. As expressed by the Minister for Overseas Territories, Naïma Moutchou, the anticipated session on “Bougival” would have made it attainable to strengthen this unprecedented compromise obtained in a hard-fought method. But the initiative was criticized from all sides and the invoice which organized it had little probability of acquiring a majority in Parliament. The socialists within the National Assembly, just like the centrists within the Senate, had expressed their opposition to the undertaking, which undoubtedly weakened it.
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