After Guadeloupe and Martinique, direction New Caledonia for Sébastien Lecornu, where there too the situation is tense.
The Minister of Overseas Territories will visit the archipelago on the occasion of the self-determination referendum on Sunday.
However, the separatists have already indicated that they would not discuss with him because the government maintains the date of December 12.
However, the government does not seem determined to change the timetable.
"We are doing everything to ensure that the vote takes place in the best possible conditions and the Council of State has also validated its holding", thus indicated the spokesman of the government, Gabriel Attal Wednesday at the end of the Council of ministers.
An "act of contempt", according to the FLNKS
“The FLNKS and the Nationalists consider this visit unwelcome. It constitutes yet another act of contempt and a final provocation vis-à-vis the independence movement and the living forces of the country in view of the holding of the illegitimate vote on Sunday, December 12, 2021 ”, for its part indicated the independence strategic committee. of non-participation this Thursday in a press release. "Faced with the stubbornness of the State to maintain at all costs the date of the consultation on December 12, 2021, the FLNKS and the Nationalists are opposed to all discussions and to any meetings with the Minister of Overseas Territories before the presidential elections, ”they added.
The independence parties are up against the State's decision to maintain the third referendum provided for by the Noumea agreement on December 12, despite the Covid-19 epidemic.
The Council of State rejected Tuesday the request of a collective of citizens to postpone the vote, considering that the health context did not “prevent” the conduct of the ballot.
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