Macron desires to finish his mandate with a outcome that’s slipping away | EUROtoday

As the 2027 presidential election attracts nearer, the already slim probabilities of a constitutional revision that might set up the long run “State of New Caledonia” disappear fully. However, by receiving the territory’s political teams, Friday January 16, on the Elysée to “open new political perspectives” And “continue to move forward on the stabilization of its institutions”the President of the Republic acts as if such a political enterprise had been nonetheless attainable in Parliament. Emmanuel Macron desires “make 2026 a useful year”stated the Elysée on Wednesday, earlier than this umpteenth spherical of discussions, led by a head of state who is claimed to be uninterested in a Caledonian difficulty that has been becalmed since 2021.

The independence and non-independence signatories of the Bougival settlement of July 12, 2025, excluding the Liberation Front nationwide kanak and socialist (FLNKS) who’ve since rejected it, and didn’t journey to Paris, would due to this fact meet to develop “by Monday” A “additional document”. This could be included by modification to the draft constitutional legislation that the chief offered to the Council of Ministers in mid-October 2025. The Elysée speaks of a “way point” geared toward acquiring “clarifications”of the “clarifications”of the “explanations”of the “interpretations”. And “if the constitutional law is adopted, a consultation of the New Caledonian population will take place and then, provincial elections (…), which could be postponed until September 2026”for the fourth time.

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