Friday, June 10, 2011

New Caledonia Congress elects new government

[Radio New Zealand International, 10 June 2011] - New Caledonia’s Congress has elected a new collegial government - the fourth this year.

It confirmed Harold Martin of the anti-independence Future Together Party as new president and the pro-independence politician Gilbert Tyuienon as vice-president.

The two were this year elected three times before but their administration collapsed every time within minutes because the Caledonia Together Party resigned from the collegial body.

The resignations came amid an unresolved dispute over which flag the territory should choose ias part of its decolonisation process.

France has been scrambling to change the electoral law to give any new government an 18-month grace period in a bid to stop the serial resignations.

The French high commissioner says he hopes this government will be stable.

The next general election is due in three years.

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