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‘Left by the wayside’: New Caledonia MP vows to take Indigenous frustrations to Paris
Pro-independence MP Emmanuel Tjibaou heads to France this weekend amid Kanak pride in election of ‘big brother’
New Caledonia’s first pro-independence MP in decades has vowed to take the frustrations of the Indigenous Kanak to France’s parliament, saying young people have been “left by the wayside” in the Pacific archipelago.
Emmanuel Tjibaou, the son of famous Kanak independence leader Jean-Marie Tjibaou who was assassinated in 1989, was elected on 7 July as one of two MPs representing New Caledonia.
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