New Caledonia: deputies decide on the postponement of elections, before constitutional reform. After adoption in the Senate, the deputies are looking at this very brief organic bill.
The new deadline is "reasonable to give local political negotiations a chance to succeed", says Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin. The government is working on a constitutional reform which promises to be much more tense since the two main Caledonian independence parties are opposed to it at this stage. It plans to unfreeze the electorate in order to open provincial elections - reserved for natives and residents who arrived before 1998 and their descendants.