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Nouméa is the capital and largest city of the French special collectivity of New Caledonia and is also the largest francophone city in Oceania. It is situated on a peninsula in the south of New Caledonia's main island,Grande Terre,and is home to the majority of the island's European,Polynesian,Indonesian,and Vietnamese populations,as well as many Melanesians,Ni-Vanuatu and Kanaks who work in one of the South Pacific's most industrialised cities. The city lies on a protected deepwater harbour that serves as the chief port for New Caledonia.
Pierre Frogier is a French politician,who was President of the Government of New Caledonia from 2001 to 2004. He has been French senator for New Caledonia since 2011,and was member of the National Assembly of France from 1996 to 2011. He served as President of the Congress of New Caledonia from 1995 to 1997.
Marie-Noëlle Thémereau is a French New Caledonian politician who served as the former president of the government of New Caledonia,an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean about 1,210 km east of Australia. She has been a member of the loyalist Future Together party.
The Nouméa Accord of 1998 is a promise by the French Republic to grant increased political power to New Caledonia and its original population,the Kanaks,over a twenty-year transition period. It was signed 5 May 1998 by Lionel Jospin,and approved in a referendum in New Caledonia on 8 November,with 72% voting in favour. Under the accord,two more referendum votes,on whether to remain a special collectivity of France or become an independent state,have been held. One was held in 2018,and the second was held in 2020. In both votes a majority chose to remain French. The Nouméa Accord permitted a final referendum to be held,voted for by the Congress of New Caledonia. It was held December 2021 and widely rejected independence amid boycott by the independence movement.
The Congress of New Caledonia,a "territorial congress",is the legislature of New Caledonia. It has 54 members who serve five-year terms,selected proportionally based on the partisan makeup of all three assemblies of the provinces of New Caledonia with a 5% threshold. The congress is headquartered at 1 Boulevard Vauban in downtown Noumea. Local media in New Caledonia refer to the congress as "boulevard Vauban" when referencing it.
Harold Martin is a French politician. He served twice as President of the Government of New Caledonia and three times as President of the Congress of New Caledonia between 1997 and 2011. Former student as a site manager in the ESTP,Martin replaced Marie-Noëlle Thémereau in 2007 as the leader of the ruling Future Together party after the party suffered an electoral setback to choose the territory's two members of the French assembly.
The University of New Caledonia UNC is a French university which is part of the Academy of New Caledonia located in Nouméa and Koné.
Sonia Lagarde is a French New Caledonian politician and the current mayor of Nouméa. She has been a member of the National Assembly for New Caledonia's 1st constituency since 2012.
DéwéGorodey was a New Caledonian teacher,writer,feminist and politician. She was active in agitating for independence from France in the 1970s. She published poetry,short stories and novels. From 1999,she was a member of the New Caledonian government,representing the pro-independence Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front. From April 2001 to June 2009,she served almost continuously as Vice President of the Government of New Caledonia.
The vice president of the Government of New Caledonia is a political position in the Government of New Caledonia. According to the Nouméa Accord,the vice president in the collegial government system needs to come from a pro-independence party if the president comes from an anti-independence party and the other way round whenever the president comes from a pro-independence party.
Thierry Lataste is a senior French civil servant.
An independence referendum was held in New Caledonia on 4 October 2020. The poll was the second to be held under the terms of the Nouméa Accord,following a similar referendum in 2018.
Sonia Backès is a French politician in New Caledonia. She is the current leader of the Caledonian Republicans party and the President of the Provincial Assembly of South Province since May 17,2019.
Cherifa Linossier is a businesswoman from New Caledonia,who was leader of the Confederation of Small and Medium Enterprises (CPME).
Ilaïsaane Lauouvéa is a New Caledonian politician,who from 2009 to 2014 was an elected member of the Congress of New Caledonia representing the Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front.
Didier Poidyaliwane was a New Caledonian politician. A pro-independence activist,he was a member of the Caledonian Union (UC) and the Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front (FLNKS) and strongly defended the rights of indigenous Kanak people. He served in the cabinet of Philippe Germain and Thierry Santa as a minister in the Government of New Caledonia.
The Maritime Museum of New Caledonia is a maritime museum in New Caledonia. It is largely dedicated to the history of French colonial exploration in the Pacific and the collection includes objects retrieved from the frigates Astrolabe and Boussole, which were wrecked under the captaincy of Jean-François de Galaup de Lapérouse.
Jean-Christophe Gay,born in 1962,is a French geographer and full professor at the Côte d'Azur University. Initially a specialist in spatial discontinuities,he has oriented his research towards the practices and places of tourism as well as towards territories).
Caroline Machoro-Reignier is a Kanak politician in New Caledonia. A member of the pro-independence Caledonian Union,she led the Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front alliance in the Congress of New Caledonia from 2011 to 2014. In 1988,she was one of the signatories of the Matignon Agreements between New Caledonian loyalists and separatists.
