MP Nicolas Metzdorf hopes that by traveling, Emmanuel Macron will manage to “establish a space for dialogue”

“If Emmanuel Macron manages to establish a space for dialogue before the Versailles congress, that’s a good thing”estimates Tuesday May 21 on franceinfo Nicolas Metzdorf, Renaissance deputy for New Caledonia, while the head of state must leave for Nouméa “from this evening”. This presidential trip is “good news” according to Nicolas Metzdorf.

The non-independence deputy from New Caledonia expects this trip to be “useful before the Versailles Congress scheduled for the end of June” to ratify the constitutional reform on the unfreezing of the electoral body. The elected official, rapporteur of the constitutional bill, also hopes that this will serve to “bring the separatists back to the negotiating table”. He also insists on the fact that the loyalists “have never left it since 2021”.

For Nicolas Metzdorf, “dialogue only depends on the will of the separatists”. He therefore considers that‘”important” in this file is to know if “the separatists are ready to come and negotiate in good faith”. “Is it that [le déplacement d’Emmanuel Macron] will appease or fuel the demonstrations of the separatists, that’s the question we ask ourselves”underlines the deputy from New Caledonia.

“Either Emmanuel Macron maintains the Versailles congress, we discuss beforehand and we will say that this is what must be done, and that is good; or he postpones it ad vitam æternam (…) and we will denounce him”, says the Renaissance representative. Nicolas Metzdorf explains that the “Red line” for its part will be the withdrawal of the bill on the unfreezing of the electoral body, “because we would prove the rioters right.”