{"id":39790,"date":"2021-12-14T13:23:14","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T04:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/14\/null-and-void-boycott-clouds-new-caledonias-final-poll-on-independence"},"modified":"2021-12-14T13:23:14","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T04:23:14","slug":"null-and-void-boycott-clouds-new-caledonias-final-poll-on-independence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39790","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Null and void\u2019: boycott clouds New Caledonia\u2019s final poll on independence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Overwhelming vote to remain with France, but low turnout \u2018weighs heavily\u2019 on self-determination process, say observers<\/p>\n<p>Low voter turnout at New Caledonia\u2019s independence referendum \u201cweighs heavily\u201d on the French territory\u2019s self-determination process, election observers from the Pacific Islands Forum have said.<\/p>\n<p>In Sunday\u2019s referendum, more than 96% of voters were opposed to independence from France, compared with 57% in 2018 and 53% in 2020.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/14\/null-and-void-boycott-clouds-new-caledonias-final-poll-on-independence\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overwhelming vote to remain with France, but low turnout \u2018weighs heavily\u2019 on self-determination process, say observersLow voter turnout at New Caledonia\u2019s independence referendum \u201cweighs heavily\u201d on the French territory\u2019s self-determination process, el&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"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":[41,221,526,1102,874,581,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-europe","category-france","category-new-caledonia","category-pacific-islands","category-pacific-islands-forum","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\/39790","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\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39791,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39790\/revisions\/39791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}