What is the current state of Loyalist federalism?

Hello everyone,

The APROFED association is contacting you again this week following Jean-Louis Borloo’s invitation this weekend to Laurent Delahousse’s “20h30 le dimanche” (see “20h30 le dimanche”. With Jean-Louis Borloo and Lena Situations ).

This made it possible to discuss the solution aimed at transforming France into a federal state.

The association welcomes the completion of this project, for which we approached France Télévisions on October 10th.

Hopefully other topics of this type can be developed, especially if a new dissolution or censure of the central government were to take place before the end of the year.

While the association has continued to promote this notion of federalism since the events of May 2024 in New Caledonia, where its members originate, we question the position taken by the loyalists at the end of 2024 who no longer communicate on the subject.

While through the international press (see News Archive – APROFED ), it is possible to read that many states or populations wishing to perfect or implement federalism at home are going to train in Switzerland, in Germany, whose notion has been present in their countries for centuries, it is clear that the local loyalist movements have to date sent no delegation to these countries, nor on the contrary received experts from these countries in New Caledonia, indicating by the same means the falseness of their project and their intentions which in no way aimed to federate but rather to partition as the experts have been able to describe.

With travel costs exceeding one billion CFP francs, highlighted by the Territorial Chamber of Accounts, due in particular to the numerous trips back and forth to the metropolis, a small detour to the Swiss or German border could have made the pill easier to swallow or at least given the impression of really carrying out a federal project.

Thus, since the signing of the draft agreement of Bougival, directed and imposed by the State, there has been no further note on federalism from the Loyalists , also demonstrating that the State does not want this solution.

Unfortunately, it’s clear that nothing has changed. Each side remains entrenched in its own agenda, with no intention of discussing with the other, or even making a gesture, and wants the people of New Caledonia to vote, like children during their parents’ divorce, for one candidate or the other, on a project that is, moreover, incomplete—in other words, a mere draft. Let no one tell us after this that representative democracy is still alive. Representative democracy in New Caledonia, as well as in France, is dead, like the king. Long live direct democracy, federalism, and the return of power to the people!

Wishing you a pleasant read and reminding you that federalism is the only solution to reconcile unity in diversity.

The APROFED association