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New Caledonian insurgent leader tells supporters to stay on the barricades
Smoke rises during protests in Noumea, New Caledonia, May 15, 2024

AN INDEPENDENCE leader in New Caledonia has warned supporters to “remain mobilised” to defeat electoral reforms imposed from Paris on the Pacific territory.

Christian Tein of the pro-independence Field Action Co-ordination Unit addressed insurgent forces in a video message on Saturday, two days after meeting French President Emmanuel Macron, who urged protesters to dismantle barricades blocking roads on the archipelago.

Mr Tein asked those on the barricades to allow fuel, food and medicine through to prevent communities getting cut off, but not to stand down until Mr Macron drops a controversial voting reform and withdraws arrest warrants for protest leaders.

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