The government of New Caledonia faces a great challenge: obtaining essential and significant financial aid from the State to begin the reconstruction of the social contract of the archipelago, destroyed by the insurrection that began on May 13. The crisis has killed an economic model that has not fulfilled its promises of “rebalancing” to the Kanaks and, in addition, has led to a budget impasse due to not having carried out the necessary reforms. Today the State conditions its aid to these reforms.
This is the objective of the arrival in Paris, starting on Friday, November 15, of the local government delegation led by its president, the pro-independence Louis Mapou: to convince the national executive of the good direction of the reinforcement, refoundation and reconstruction plan . or PS2R. A meeting is planned at the Elysée on Friday and another in Matignon on Monday, November 18. The work, which began in August, was the subject of a first public presentation in Noumea on October 17, in the presence of François-Noël Buffet, Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Louis Mapou has just obtained the support of the presidents of the National Assembly and the Senate, Yaël Braun-Pivet (Renaissance) and Gérard Larcher (Les Républicains), who traveled together to Noumea from November 10 to 13 and promised to support the amendments that New Caledonia’s elected officials will propose as part of the 2025 finance bill. These amendments aim, in particular, to preserve until. mid-2025 the partial unemployment regime financed by the State.
Ineffective administrative yarrow
PS2R should be broken down into several emergency measures for 2024-2025 in the hope of saving an economic system that has seen almost a quarter of New Caledonia’s GDP evaporate since May 13, but also to lead to medium and long-term decisions term. It is based on four main pillars: attractiveness of the economy, viability of social protection, effectiveness of institutions and restoration of coexistence.
The results of institutions, economic actors and civil society came together to describe an economy too dependent on the (unprofitable) exploitation of nickel, an inefficient local administrative system, an excessive cost of the healthcare model, a persistent real estate crisis or even the inadequacy. from school to society. An online consultation was opened to New Caledonians in which 3,000 people participated, most of them from favored neighborhoods in Nouméa. “It is important that New Caledonia is part of a process that tries to incorporate as many people as possible”insisted Louis Mapou, a few days before the presentation of the plan, considering this support as “an essential element in the success of this project”.
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