He took care to specify what he was going to present “A right-wing and pro-French vision” of New Caledonia, and the twenty elected representatives of the National Assembly invited on Tuesday 1Ahem October, during breakfast, the Caledonian deputy Nicolas Metzdorf (member of the Macronist group Ensemble pour la République) appreciated the presentation without contradicting it. To understand the current crisis in New Caledonia, the parliamentarian used a Power Point. Useless for “Geraldo [Darmanin, l’ex-ministre de l’intérieur, présent], who has been there eight times »but valuable for most guests, new to the topic.
Nicolas Metzdorf, 36, is also elected loyalist to the Caledonian Congress and considers himself one of the non-independence supporters. “the most difficult.” Remember doing “53% of the votes in the legislative elections in Noumea” – without saying that the loyalists lost a lot of ground compared to the last election, while the separatists gained 10,000 more votes in total. This is how man solves omissions: the separatists “He challenged the result of the third referendum” on self-determination in 2021, he presents, without specifying that they did not participate in the vote. Excess does not scare him – he says that “25,000 exits” They have been deplored since the May 13 insurrection, which remains impossible to seriously evaluate. Nor the reproaches towards his side: “France’s weakness is the confetti of the empire, these territories are out of sight, out of mind, and our neighbors in the region are very critical of the State. »
But while, for ten days now, a trans-party delegation of the Congress, present in Paris, has collectively defended the cause of the territory, from Matignon to Parliament, it plays alone and in a radical way, as the leader of the loyal, Sonia Backès. Mr. Metzdorf was able to develop his “right-wing vision” upon being received successively by the new Minister of the Economy, Antoine Armand, the Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, with whom he marked his agreement on immigration, or the overseas Minister, François-Noël Buffet.
“We have been betrayed”
The independence uprising of May 13? “I don’t feel responsible at all”explained on Tuesday who was the rapporteur of the constitutional bill that reforms the Caledonian electoral body for the provincial elections, a text that set the gunpowder on fire in Noumea. “It was not the vote on the bill that caused the riots. The separatists would have found something else anyway because their goal is to destabilize and make enough people leave to win a referendum in five years. »
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