{"id":71776,"date":"2025-05-13T10:54:36","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T01:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/13\/new-caledonia-riots-one-year-on-president-alcide-ponga"},"modified":"2025-05-13T10:54:36","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T01:54:36","slug":"a-year-after-deadly-riots-new-caledonias-president-vows-to-address-push-for-independence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71776","title":{"rendered":"A year after deadly riots, New Caledonia\u2019s president vows to address push for independence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: In the wake of unrest that rattled the French overseas territory, Alcide Ponga discusses how to rebuild and his plan for the future<\/p>\n<p>One year after the deadly riots that ravaged Noum\u00e9a and shattered New Caledonia\u2019s economy and social fabric, newly elected president Alcide Ponga faces a series of challenges including deep division over the territory\u2019s political future \u2013 and the prospect of independence from France.<\/p>\n<p>Ponga, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/09\/new-caledonia-congress-elects-alcide-ponga-president\">who was elected in January<\/a> is an indigenous Kanak who is also anti-independence. The 49-year-old former nickel executive and mayor has vowed to get the economy back on track and support discussions on independence.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/13\/new-caledonia-riots-one-year-on-president-alcide-ponga\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: In the wake of unrest that rattled the French overseas territory, Alcide Ponga discusses how to rebuild and his plan for the futureOne year after the deadly riots that ravaged Noum\u00e9a and shattered New Caledonia\u2019s economy and social fabric, n&#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":[41,221,526,1102,874,3085,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-europe","category-france","category-new-caledonia","category-pacific-islands","category-pacific-leaders-in-their-words","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\/71776","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=71776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71777,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71776\/revisions\/71777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}