{"id":64314,"date":"2024-05-23T06:35:20","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T21:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/22\/macron-arrives-in-new-caledonia-amid-calls-for-france-to-withdraw-voting-changes"},"modified":"2024-05-24T01:24:09","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T16:24:09","slug":"macron-arrives-in-new-caledonia-amid-calls-for-france-to-drop-voting-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=64314","title":{"rendered":"Macron vows not to impose voting reform on New Caledonia visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President promises talks as he seeks to quell serious unrest over plans to enfranchise French nationals in Pacific territory<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/15\/why-riots-new-caledonia-france-voting\">Explainer: Why is there unrest in New Caledonia?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The French president, Emmanuel Macron, has vowed not to force through voting reform in the Pacific territory of New Caledonia, after anger over the plans sparked more than a week of unrest, arson and looting that left six people dead and hundreds injured.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have pledged that this reform will not be forced through in the current context,\u201d Macron told reporters as he made a visit to New Caledonia. More talks were needed, he said, adding that he would review the situation within a month.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/22\/macron-arrives-in-new-caledonia-amid-calls-for-france-to-withdraw-voting-changes\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President promises talks as he seeks to quell serious unrest over plans to enfranchise French nationals in Pacific territoryExplainer: Why is there unrest in New Caledonia?The French president, Emmanuel Macron, has vowed not to force through voting ref&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4264,"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":[41,1244,526,1102,874,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-emmanuel-macron","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\/64314","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\/4264"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64314"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64357,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64314\/revisions\/64357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}