Referendum in New Caledonia: "The result is known in advance" with the boycott of the separatists

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Supporters of the Kanak independence party FLNKS in October 2020. The separatists voted for not holding the referendum (Image illustration).

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By: Florent Guignard Follow

Caledonians are invited to go to the polls once again this Sunday, December 12 to decide whether their archipelago belongs to France.

The separatists decided to shun this third referendum, leaving the choices to come to discussions after the presidential election.

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This postponement of the poll is requested because of the impossibility of " 

 " because of the epidemic, which was refused by the government, pushing the FLNKS to call on its activists not to vote.

Decryption of the issues with Benoît Trépied, anthropologist and researcher at CNRS, specialist in New Caledonia.

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