Bruno Retailleau calls on the government to “declare a state of emergency”

At least two people died overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday in New Caledonia during a second consecutive night of riots.

Bruno Retailleau, president of the Les Républicains group in the Senate, calls on Franceinfo on Wednesday May 15 for the government to “declare a state of emergency”after at least two people died overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday during a second consecutive night of riots in New Caledonia. “I call on the State to seize the tools of authority which make it possible to restore public order”he declares.

Despite the curfew put in place in Nouméa, the serious violence which began on Monday in the archipelago resumed on Tuesday evening. Reason why, for Bruno Retailleau, it is necessary to resort to a state of emergency: “You go up a notch and you are authorized to take exceptional measures which can constrain public freedoms.” According to the Vendée senator, “there can be no dialogue in the shit”.

While the National Assembly adopted on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday the text which expands the electoral body for future provincial elections, supporters of independence judge that this “thaw” risk of “even further minimize the indigenous Kanak people”. However, for the boss of LR senators, “we could not organize democratic elections without unfreezing this electorate”. “We change the rules so that they become democratic rules, but the separatists refuse them because they refuse democratic rule”he denounced, before adding that “anti-democratic blackmail cannot win”.

Bruno Retailleau indicated that he supported Emmanuel Macron’s decision not to summon parliamentarians to a Congress in Versailles to seal the constitutional revision, inviting separatists and loyalists to meet in Paris and resume dialogue. “I think he’s right, it’s the right method”judged the boss of the LR senators. “The prerequisite for dialogue is non-violence, civil peace, civil harmony and the restoration of republican order”he added.