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April 25, 2023
By Walter Zweifel, RNZ Pacific reporter New Caledonia’s largest pro-independence party has been told that France is “panicking” and afraid of losing New Caledonia. The head of the Caledonian Union Daniel Goa briefed the party in Koumac after a week of meetings of a cross-section of New Caledonian politicians with the French government in Paris ... <a title="Decolonisation tensions rise in New Caledonia as Kanaks accuse France of opposing ‘wind of history’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/25/decolonisation-tensions-rise-in-new-caledonia-as-kanaks-accuse-france-of-opposing-wind-of-history/" aria-label="Read more about Decolonisation tensions rise in New Caledonia as Kanaks accuse France of opposing ‘wind of history’">Read more</a>
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June 22, 2022
RNZ Pacific French Polynesia’s President Édouard Fritch has described the election of three candidates of the pro-independence Tavini Huiraatira party to the French National Assembly as “catastrophic”. They won all three seats in a run-off against candidates of his ruling Tapura Huiraatira party, which holds two-thirds of all seats in French Polynesia’s Assembly. Fritch said ... <a title="Fritch slams Tahiti pro-independence wins for Paris as ‘catastrophic’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/06/22/fritch-slams-tahiti-pro-independence-wins-for-paris-as-catastrophic/" aria-label="Read more about Fritch slams Tahiti pro-independence wins for Paris as ‘catastrophic’">Read more</a>
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June 22, 2022
RNZ Pacific In an unprecedented result, French Polynesia’s pro-independence Tavini Huiraatira Party candidates have won a clean sweep of all three seats in the French National Assembly. The three will sit with the left-wing Nupes group which emerged as the second biggest force in the 577-strong National Assembly. The success of the alliance around Jean-Luc ... <a title="Tahiti pro-independence candidates sweep seats in French National Assembly" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/06/22/tahiti-pro-independence-candidates-sweep-seats-in-french-national-assembly/" aria-label="Read more about Tahiti pro-independence candidates sweep seats in French National Assembly">Read more</a>
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June 14, 2022
RNZ Pacific New Caledonia’s first round of the French National Assembly election has seen surprise advances of the pro-independence Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front (FLNKS) whose two candidates both made it to next Sunday’s run-off round. Wali Wahetra came second in the constituency made up of the anti-independence stronghold Noumea plus the mainly Kanak ... <a title="Rival New Caledonian sides left in run for French National Assembly seats" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/06/14/rival-new-caledonian-sides-left-in-run-for-french-national-assembly-seats/" aria-label="Read more about Rival New Caledonian sides left in run for French National Assembly seats">Read more</a>
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May 23, 2022
RNZ News A New Caledonian anti-independence candidate has withdrawn from the race for a seat in the French National Assembly just hours before nominations closed. Vaea Frogier pulled out, citing concern about the splits in the anti-independence camp. Seventeen candidates in New Caledonia are standing in next month’s election, with the pro-independence parties jointly fielding ... <a title="New Caledonia’s Frogier pulls out of French National Assembly race" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/23/new-caledonias-frogier-pulls-out-of-french-national-assembly-race/" aria-label="Read more about New Caledonia’s Frogier pulls out of French National Assembly race">Read more</a>
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May 16, 2022
RNZ Pacific French Polynesia’s Amuitahiraa Party has registered its three candidates for the French National Assembly elections next month — just hours before the nomination deadline. The three are Pascale Haiti, Jonathan Tariha’a and Sylviane Terooatea. Haiti, a former member of the French Polynesian Assembly, is the partner of party founder and leader Gaston Flosse, ... <a title="Flosse’s Amuitahiraa party names candidates for French elections" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/16/flosses-amuitahiraa-party-names-candidates-for-french-elections/" aria-label="Read more about Flosse’s Amuitahiraa party names candidates for French elections">Read more</a>
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January 18, 2022
RNZ Pacific French Polynesia’s former president Gaston Flosse says he is in mourning because the French state has signed his political death by banning him from political office for five years for abusing public funds. Flosse made the statement after France’s highest appeal court upheld a 2020 conviction over a long-running corrupt water supply arrangement ... <a title="Veteran Tahiti politician Flosse accuses France of causing his ‘political death’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/18/veteran-tahiti-politician-flosse-accuses-france-of-causing-his-political-death/" aria-label="Read more about Veteran Tahiti politician Flosse accuses France of causing his ‘political death’">Read more</a>
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January 14, 2022
RNZ Pacific France’s highest court has upheld a corruption conviction of French Polynesia’s former president Gaston Flosse, effectively ending his political career. It confirmed a 2020 appeal court ruling in Tahiti, which had deprived Flosse of his eligibility to hold public office for five years after finding him and the current president Edouard Fritch guilty ... <a title="Tahiti’s Flosse banned from public office after latest court defeat" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/14/tahitis-flosse-banned-from-public-office-after-latest-court-defeat/" aria-label="Read more about Tahiti’s Flosse banned from public office after latest court defeat">Read more</a>
