Comments on: New Caledonia’s thirty-year referendum process may fall at the final hurdle https://www.policyforum.net/new-caledonias-thirty-year-referendum-process-may-fall-at-the-final-hurdle/ The APPS Policy Forum a public policy website devoted to Asia and the Pacific. Sun, 12 Dec 2021 05:08:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.7 By: CEDRIC https://www.policyforum.net/new-caledonias-thirty-year-referendum-process-may-fall-at-the-final-hurdle/#comment-13312 Sun, 12 Dec 2021 05:08:03 +0000 https://www.policyforum.net/?p=51281#comment-13312 In reply to SP.

They only have an effective governance system because France invests tons of resources and maintains the rule of law. This referendum idea was the idea of Jospin a lunatic president and should never have been allowed to start with. There are many other territories that could ask to break up and it would set a catastrophic precedent for France and neighboring countries. If New Caledonia becomes independent they will certainly become a third world banana republic under the full control of China within a decade. These type of countries that are resource rich and vulnerable all become corrupt as hell and syphoned by a bunch of oligarchs while the population starves.

]]> By: Ravin https://www.policyforum.net/new-caledonias-thirty-year-referendum-process-may-fall-at-the-final-hurdle/#comment-13297 Sat, 04 Dec 2021 17:29:43 +0000 https://www.policyforum.net/?p=51281#comment-13297 Very good article.Shameful act of France in Pacific.When France colonised NC did they asked anybody’s approval or was there any referendum?You can enter a territory, colonised but then set conditions to grant independence.France you should just leave NC.None of anybody’s business whether the indigenous people able to provide good rule or not.Their land.France, what a undignified nation.French colonial history from Africa to Pacific full of shame.Just see the Algerian history.France stop preaching democracy to others.

]]> By: SP https://www.policyforum.net/new-caledonias-thirty-year-referendum-process-may-fall-at-the-final-hurdle/#comment-13289 Tue, 30 Nov 2021 13:54:33 +0000 https://www.policyforum.net/?p=51281#comment-13289 In reply to Greg Bader.

Have you been there? NC has huge nickel reserves, an effective governance system, GNP per capita higher than parts of Australia, and a trained leadership ready to lead an independent government. French subsides total around 17% of GNP at present. They can survive fine without France. Kanak leaders have no wish, anymore, to sever links with France, or to penalise its supporters.

]]> By: Greg Bader https://www.policyforum.net/new-caledonias-thirty-year-referendum-process-may-fall-at-the-final-hurdle/#comment-13285 Sun, 28 Nov 2021 10:13:40 +0000 https://www.policyforum.net/?p=51281#comment-13285 New Caledonia would be much better off under French rule as opposed to independence, where it would probably end up like Papua New Guinea.

]]> By: Mary Morris https://www.policyforum.net/new-caledonias-thirty-year-referendum-process-may-fall-at-the-final-hurdle/#comment-13279 Wed, 24 Nov 2021 23:22:36 +0000 https://www.policyforum.net/?p=51281#comment-13279 Your article fails to give any details of the extent to which different ethnicities in Kanaky-New Caledonia have been affected by the recent Covid outbreak, in particular the number of deaths. It fails to acknowledge the political strategies at work in the call for significant delay in the timing of the third referendum and the importance of demographics. The analysis seems rather superficial.

]]> By: Paul https://www.policyforum.net/new-caledonias-thirty-year-referendum-process-may-fall-at-the-final-hurdle/#comment-13278 Wed, 24 Nov 2021 20:58:49 +0000 https://www.policyforum.net/?p=51281#comment-13278 They have already voted twice in the last three years. The independence side is not likely to win the third either. Boycotting is their excuse for going 0-3.

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