{"id":64894,"date":"2024-06-13T10:45:08","date_gmt":"2024-06-13T01:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jun\/13\/new-caledonia-unrest-emmanuel-macron-voting-reforms-suspended"},"modified":"2024-06-13T10:45:08","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T01:45:08","slug":"macron-suspends-controversial-voting-reforms-in-new-caledonia-after-deadly-unrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=64894","title":{"rendered":"Macron suspends controversial voting reforms in New Caledonia after deadly unrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>French president says suspension will give \u2018full strength to dialogue on the ground\u2019 as well as opportunity to \u2018return to order\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Controversial voting reforms in New Caledonia will be suspended, Emmanuel Macron has announced, after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/22\/macron-arrives-in-new-caledonia-amid-calls-for-france-to-withdraw-voting-changes\">period of deadly unrest<\/a> in the French Pacific territory.<\/p>\n<p>The reforms, which would have altered voting rights, are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/30\/new-caledonia-emmanuel-macron-france-independence-referendum\">contested by the Indigenous Kanak<\/a> people who say they would be marginalised further should the changes go through.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jun\/13\/new-caledonia-unrest-emmanuel-macron-voting-reforms-suspended\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French president says suspension will give \u2018full strength to dialogue on the ground\u2019 as well as opportunity to \u2018return to order\u2019Controversial voting reforms in New Caledonia will be suspended, Emmanuel Macron has announced, after a period of deadly unr&#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":[41,526,1102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-france","category-new-caledonia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64894","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=64894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64895,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64894\/revisions\/64895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}