{"id":39720,"date":"2021-12-12T05:00:18","date_gmt":"2021-12-11T20:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/12\/new-caledonia-fears-of-unrest-as-polls-open-for-vote-on-independence-from-france"},"modified":"2021-12-12T23:05:47","modified_gmt":"2021-12-12T14:05:47","slug":"new-caledonia-fears-of-unrest-as-polls-open-for-vote-on-independence-from-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39720","title":{"rendered":"New Caledonia rejects split from France in vote marred by boycott"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turnout of just 40% after pro-independence campaigners urged indigenous people not to participate<\/p>\n<p>Residents of the Pacific territory of New Caledonia have voted overwhelmingly to remain part of France in a referendum boycotted by pro-independence groups.<\/p>\n<p>In the third referendum on the matter, the decision to stay within the French republic was carried by 96.49% to 3.51%, but a turnout of just over 40% suggested the indigenous Kanak people have not given up on dreams of independence.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/12\/new-caledonia-fears-of-unrest-as-polls-open-for-vote-on-independence-from-france\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turnout of just 40% after pro-independence campaigners urged indigenous people not to participateResidents of the Pacific territory of New Caledonia have voted overwhelmingly to remain part of France in a referendum boycotted by pro-independence groups&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2719,"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":[41,526,1102,874,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-france","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\/39720","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\/2719"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39720"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39742,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39720\/revisions\/39742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}