{"id":27713,"date":"2021-02-03T09:20:42","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T00:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/03\/new-caledonia-government-falls-over-nickel-deal-and-independence-push"},"modified":"2021-02-03T09:20:42","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T00:20:42","slug":"new-caledonia-government-falls-apart-over-nickel-deal-and-independence-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=27713","title":{"rendered":"New Caledonia government falls apart over nickel deal and independence push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thierry Santa\u2019s multi-party government collapses a few months after narrow referendum vote to remain within French republic<\/p>\n<p>Even as Tropical Cyclone Lucas bears down on New Caledonia, the French Pacific dependency also faces a political storm, with the collapse of the multi-party government led by President Thierry Santa.<\/p>\n<p>Five members of the government, representing the pro-independence groups UC-FLNKS and the Union nationale pour l\u2019ind\u00e9pendance (UNI) resigned on 2 February. Both groups are members of the Front de lib\u00e9ration nationale kanak et socialiste (FLNKS), which campaigns for independence from France.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/03\/new-caledonia-government-falls-over-nickel-deal-and-independence-push\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thierry Santa\u2019s multi-party government collapses a few months after narrow referendum vote to remain within French republicEven as Tropical Cyclone Lucas bears down on New Caledonia, the French Pacific dependency also faces a political storm, with the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1590,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1102,874,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-caledonia","category-pacific-islands","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1590"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27714,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27713\/revisions\/27714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}