Manuel Valls in New Caledonia: four days to convince and try to save the Bougival agreement

Manuel Valls will get to the heart of the matter on Wednesday afternoon. The Minister for Overseas Territories has arranged for bilateral discussions with all the delegations that participated in drafting the Bougival (Yvelines) agreement in early July, including that of the Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front (FLNKS), which announced on Wednesday, August 13 , the rejection of the text by its activists . A "unanimous, frank and massive rejection," according to the independence movement.

Manuel Valls, whose trip ends on Saturday, still intends to try to convince the FLNKS to join the process initiated in Bougival, which he believes must continue. The other Caledonian parties have all validated the agreement, whether they are the radical non-independence party (Les Loyalists, Le Rassemblement), the moderate party (Calédonie Ensemble), the pivotal party L'Eveil océanien (neither pro-independence nor non-independence), and finally the pro-independence party of the Kanak Liberation Party (Palika) and the Progressive Union in Melanesia, which distanced themselves from the FLNKS a year ago.

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