Hello and welcome to the details of Macron ‘suspends’ New Caledonia reform that sparked deadly riots and now with the details
Nevin Al Sukari - Sana'a - Burnt out cars are seen on the Plum Pass in New Caledonia on June 10, 2024. — AFP pic
PARIS, June 12 — President Emmanuel Macron said today that a voting reform that triggered deadly riots in French Pacific territory New Caledonia would be “suspended” in light of snap parliamentary polls.
Instead he aimed to “give full voice to local dialogue and the restoration of order” after weeks of unrest in which nine people died, Macron told reporters at a Paris press conference.
The reform would have allowed people resident in New Caledonia for at least 10 years to vote in local ballots — unfreezing electoral rolls that have gone unchanged since 2007.
Indigenous Kanaks feared the change would dilute their vote among the 270,000-strong population, putting hopes for eventually winning independence definitively out of reach.
Advertisement
Although approved by both France’s National Assembly and Senate, the reform was waiting on a constitutional congress of both houses to become part of the basic law.
“I have decided to suspend it, because we can’t leave things ambiguous in this period,” Macron said.
In fact, with the National Assembly dissolved ahead of the election, the congress could not have been held by the deadline of June 30 — the day voters will now go to the polls in the first round of the election.
Advertisement
Violence broke out in New Caledonia on May 13 in response to parliamentary votes backing the reform.
Barricades, skirmishes with the police and looting killed nine, injured hundreds and inflicted hundreds of millions of euros in damage.
Pro-independence movements had already seen the voting reform as dead and buried given Macron’s call for snap elections in the wake of his camp’s European Parliament poll drubbing on Sunday.
“We can all agree that the European elections saw off the constitutional bill,” the Kanak Liberation Party (Palika) said Wednesday before Macron’s remarks.
“This should be a time for rebuilding peace and social ties,” it added. — AFP
These were the details of the news Macron ‘suspends’ New Caledonia reform that sparked deadly riots for this day. We hope that we have succeeded by giving you the full details and information. To follow all our news, you can subscribe to the alerts system or to one of our different systems to provide you with all that is new.
It is also worth noting that the original news has been published and is available at Malay Mail and the editorial team at AlKhaleej Today has confirmed it and it has been modified, and it may have been completely transferred or quoted from it and you can read and follow this news from its main source.
