However, since a constitutional change is necessary, the agreement should still be ratified by the French Republic and a referendum on the mixed new Caledonian population. Voting in the spring of 2026 should take place in New Caledonia.
As in the ranks of Kalkhov, which are intended for the Kanak’s indigenous population and in the indigenous population, a compromise may fail from sustainable mutual resentment after serious riots of 2024 and a long history of violent confrontation in voting.
As “historical”, this “agreement on the future of New Caledonia” is assessed by everyone who participates in negotiations in the Bugen castle in Paris, because the path of today’s rethinking to the sovereign state with its own constitution and legislation is mainly prescribed.
More sovereignty than a sheet of paper?
Currently, as they say, Neukaledonia is a state associated with France, which continues to broadcast important skills, such as the safety and protection of the French Republic. Nevertheless, the Kanaki-neocalonia should be recognized by the UN after ratification as a sovereign state. Until now, the archipelago east of Australia has been on the list of expectations of decolonization.
What did not reach the FLNK (Front de Libération Nationale Kanak et Socialist) in its anti-colonial struggle, and that Priffranzian “Caldoches” still rejected in the agreement on Saturday: Kanaki-Calidoni (KNC) becomes obtained in Saturday with basic skills, with them who get skills. His own nationality.
The question remains whether the sovereignty becomes more than the paper. How far the former colony of France can be solved with a qualified majority. Perhaps the loyalists accepted this compromise because they have a majority at the new Caledon Congress, and they should not be afraid that the final replacement of France will soon be decided.
The constitutional lawyer Benjamin Mary criticizes that the new law will most likely be a protectorate (for example, Tunisia and Morocco), created after the First World War, which has actually slightly changed to the predominance of colonial power.
Eternal dispute in the reduction of nickel
In three referents, the independence required by Kanak was rejected by France since 2018, because the indigenous group of the population has been a minority (today about 41 percent) for decades.
Clear rules were recorded for future elections from immigration from Europe and other islands of the southern part of the Pacific Ocean. Only those who lived in Neuokledonia for at least 10 years receive the right to vote and voting and citizenship.
A constant dispute about the future of New Caledonia led to serious clashes in 2024, in which 14 people were killed. The conflict also concerned the economic and social disabilities of the young people of Kanak and the reduction of the most important nickel of raw materials.
In the agreement that contains an “economic reconstruction agreement”, therefore, among other things, it is announced that the northern provinces of nickel processing are created in the northern provinces controlled by Kanak.