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Tag: New Caledonia referéndum

  • Saturday, November 3rd 2018 - 06:46 UTC

    French Overseas Territory New Caledonia votes on independence referendum on Sunday

    Declared a French Overseas Territory in 1946, New Caledonia is one of 13 such overseas territories, scattered around the globe

    New Caledonia, an idyllic French Overseas Territory island territory in the southwestern Pacific, votes Sunday on whether to seek full independence from Paris, 18,000 km away Thirty years in the making, Sunday’s referendum will call 174,154 voters to the polls to test the appeal of remaining a part of France, a vector of state subsidies but also, some feel, a kind of neglect.