The 3rd way is not set aside

Hello everyone,

The APROFED association is getting back to you to respond to the statement by the non-independence candidate in the legislative elections, Alcide Ponga, who, after the first round, declared that  the results clarify things:  the third way is set aside,  (see  Second constituency: Emmanuel Tjibaou goes to the second round with 44.06%, ahead of Alcide Ponga 36.18% | Les Nouvelles Calédoniennes (lnc.nc)  ), which is not  entirely true.

If the moderate candidates representing this 3rd way only totaled 15 to 17% in terms of votes, added to the 40% of abstentions, we then obtain a rate of around  55 to 57%, that is, a majority of voters expressing themselves on the contrary for a 3rd way  and not for a policy of the 2 blocs which led to the insurrection of May 13.

So why such a low rate in the elections? The  lack of decision and detailed program may be the cause . It is clear that this  lack of clarity  remains as the second round approaches, since the majority of elected officials advocating this 3rd way have not given any voting instructions. The ambiguity of certain moderates could also explain this score.  The fact of not uniting and subsequently for one of them to call for a vote for the list of the outgoing deputy, a former member of this same moderate party, who has now become radical, thus allows us to understand the failure of the 3rd way to make a breakthrough.

Although  the association  advocates an alternative and considers these elections to be rigged due to the truncated electoral division, it  nevertheless hopes, with a view to easing the current conflict, to elect a deputy from each  loyalist and pro-independence  tendency, as was the case for the senatorial elections , although as we have already mentioned in a previous press release, the weight of overseas legislators does not carry much weight within the National Assembly.

We nevertheless regret the presence in the 2nd ^round  of the outgoing deputy of the former 2nd constituency, who was transferred to the first for security reasons . Having made an alliance with other representatives who had a separatist, segregationist, not to say supremacist program, which was also sanctioned in the last senatorial election, the association cannot resolve to see a person of this ilk who advocated the separation of New Caledonia in 2 at the level of Amick Creek be re-elected. It should be noted that the rioters descended this boundary to the level of Uaré cove, at the level of the Ducos peninsula, cutting the capital Noumea in 2, the southern districts occupied mainly by metropolitan French people having voted 70% for the said deputy, and the working-class northern districts having, on the contrary, voted more than 70% for independence.

The association also questions the campaign of the said deputy of the 1st constituency including the capital but also the Isle of Pines and the Loyalty Islands, to the extent that, if before the first round, the landing strip of the island of Lifou, the main island of the Loyalty Islands, had been damaged not allowing the candidate to go there to campaign,  the latter has never been seen in the northern districts of the capital  where there is no need for a plane to get there. If he were to be elected this Sunday he  would in reality be the representative of only 25km² , an area which still remains more or less under the control of the police and the State out of the 18,000 km² which makes up New Caledonia, or in mathematics approximately 0.001%.

Furthermore, a press article yesterday announcing the return trip of a military plane to transport workers to carry out repairs to the said runway on Lifou, having transported on their return traditional and religious leaders to Noumea to talk with the youth, leads us to ask the question: What about the MP? Has he planned a trip between now and Sunday to the Loyalty Islands or the Isle of Pines? All of these islands having voted for independence, and therefore against him, are apparently not likely to see him or hear him, at least not in person. It  will therefore be appropriate at the next electoral redistribution to review the electoral redistribution again in order to reflect reality and limit the 1st constituency to only the southern districts of Noumea. The rest of the country will return to the 2nd constituency.

The APROFED association