{"id":68826,"date":"2025-01-09T09:02:52","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T00:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/09\/new-caledonia-congress-elects-alcide-ponga-president"},"modified":"2025-01-09T09:02:52","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T00:02:52","slug":"new-caledonia-congress-elects-pro-france-president-after-political-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68826","title":{"rendered":"New Caledonia Congress elects pro-France president after political crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New leader Alcide Ponga says people want a \u2018signal of hope\u2019 after turmoil in the French Pacific territory <\/p>\n<p>Weeks after its first ever pro-independence government collapsed, New Caledonia has named a French loyalist as its new president as the territory seeks to rebuild from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/17\/new-caledonia-riots-protests-noumea-out-of-state-control\">deadly riots<\/a> and destruction that battered the economy.<\/p>\n<p>Alcide Ponga, from the Le Rassemblement party, was elected president by the newly installed executive in Congress on Wednesday. Ponga\u2019s party is affiliated with French right-wing party LR, Les R\u00e9publicains. The loyalists are in favour of keeping New Caledonia within France.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/09\/new-caledonia-congress-elects-alcide-ponga-president\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New leader Alcide Ponga says people want a \u2018signal of hope\u2019 after turmoil in the French Pacific territory Weeks after its first ever pro-independence government collapsed, New Caledonia has named a French loyalist as its new president as the territory &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4253,"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":[41,526,1102,874],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-france","category-new-caledonia","category-pacific-islands"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68826","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\/4253"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68827,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68826\/revisions\/68827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}