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The “territorial federation”, a divisive notion
Hello everyone,
The APROFED association is coming back to you this week to relay an article from the weekly Demain en Nouvelle-Calédonie (DNC) dated November 29, 2024 entitled: “Territorial federation”, a divisive notion , which you can find at the following link: “Territorial federation”: a divisive notion – DNC.NC
As a reminder, the concept of “territorial federation” is a proposal presented by the loyalists for the institutional future of the country.
This article states that this proposal is rejected by Calédonie Ensemble and the separatists. Perhaps because it does not incorporate any of their proposals.
Worse, it is nothing more nor less than to end up with a partition of New Caledonia, according to Ferdinand Mélin-Soucramanien, professor of public law and co-author of the report Reflections on the Institutional Future of New Caledonia published in 2014. The latter even considers the Loyalists’ proposal to be dangerous and which would place France seriously at odds with public international law, but would also represent a terrible admission of failure for our universalist Republic, founded on an ideal of equality, by enshrining a form of apartheid.
The article recalls that the Noumea Agreement excluded the prospect of a division of the archipelago.
As the association therefore points out, territorial federation or internal federalism, hyper-provincialisation, provincial differentiation is not federalism and even less the solution to the extent that the loyalists do not take up any of the proposals of the independentists and they do not respond to the main demand made not only by New Caledonia but also by all the rest of the overseas territories , namely to review the relationship with France.
We wish you a good read and remind you that federalism is the only solution to reconcile unity in diversity.
The APROFED association