{"id":67053,"date":"2024-10-02T09:01:31","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T00:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/02\/new-caledonia-election-postponed-by-a-year-france-pm-michel-barnier"},"modified":"2024-10-02T09:01:31","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T00:01:31","slug":"new-caledonia-election-postponed-for-a-year-by-frances-new-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=67053","title":{"rendered":"New Caledonia election postponed for a year by France\u2019s new prime minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The French Pacific territory has been hit by violent unrest between communities loyal to Paris and pro-independence Indigenous Kanaks<\/p>\n<p>France\u2019s new prime minister, Michel Barnier, has announced that a provincial election scheduled for December in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia has been postponed for a year.<\/p>\n<p>During his inaugural address to parliament on Tuesday, Barnier also said a controversial bill proposed by President Emmanuel Macron to amend the constitution to change voting lists in the territory would not be forwarded to a joint meeting of parliament for ratification. The territory\u2019s Indigenous Kanak people fear changes to the voting registry would favour recent arrivals to the Pacific archipelago.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/02\/new-caledonia-election-postponed-by-a-year-france-pm-michel-barnier\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The French Pacific territory has been hit by violent unrest between communities loyal to Paris and pro-independence Indigenous KanaksFrance\u2019s new prime minister, Michel Barnier, has announced that a provincial election scheduled for December in the Fre&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[41,221,526,1102,874,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-europe","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\/67053","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67054,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67053\/revisions\/67054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}