{"id":64082,"date":"2024-05-15T20:05:54","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T11:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/15\/why-riots-new-caledonia-france-voting"},"modified":"2024-05-21T14:09:11","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T05:09:11","slug":"why-are-there-riots-in-new-caledonia-against-frances-voting-change-and-why-does-it-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=64082","title":{"rendered":"Why is there unrest in New Caledonia? Everything you need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deadly riots spiralled into wider crisis over over constitutional voting changes to increase number of French nationals eligible to vote in Pacific territory<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/21\/people-in-new-caledonia-how-have-you-been-affected-by-the-unrest\">People in New Caledonia: how have you been affected by the unrest?<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/18\/we-will-fight-until-kanaky-is-free-how-new-caledonia-caught-fire\">\u2018We will fight until Kanaky is free\u2019: how New Caledonia caught fire<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Deadly violence has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/20\/new-caledonia-riots-french-president-emmanuel-macron-state-of-emergency\">paralysed New Caledonia<\/a>, a French overseas territory in the South Pacific, for more than a week after lawmakers in Paris approved a constitutional amendment to allow recent arrivals to the territory to vote in provincial elections.<\/p>\n<p>The amendment, which some local leaders fear will dilute the vote of the Indigenous Kanak people, is the latest flashpoint in a decades-long tussle over France\u2019s role in the island.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/15\/why-riots-new-caledonia-france-voting\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deadly riots spiralled into wider crisis over over constitutional voting changes to increase number of French nationals eligible to vote in Pacific territoryPeople in New Caledonia: how have you been affected by the unrest?\u2018We will fight until Kanaky i&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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":[41,1244,221,526,503,1102,874,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-emmanuel-macron","category-europe","category-france","category-indigenous-peoples","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\/64082","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64082"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64253,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64082\/revisions\/64253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}