“There is a political mistake”, denounces the president of the Territorial Collectivity of Guyana

“Rather than attempting this passage by force, the government should have taken the time to discuss it,” believes Gabriel Serville who, along with other overseas elected officials, is calling for the text to be withdrawn.

“There is a political fault”criticizes Monday May 20 on franceinfo Gabriel Serville, president of the Territorial Collectivity of Guyana who, with several other elected officials from Overseas, calls for “immediate withdrawal” of reform in New Caledonia. Around twenty elected officials including the presidents of the regions of Reunion, Martinique and Guyana and the president of the department of Guadeloupe published an article on the Overseas la 1ère website.

“We ask the government to withdraw this text in order to regain the peace and serenity which should naturally govern these discussions,” explained Gabriel Serville. “There is a continuum in the action of the State that the government is supposed to represent. I consider that rather than attempting this passage by force, the government should have taken the time to discuss it”he estimated.

Parliament’s vote on a thaw of the electorate for the provincial elections in New Caledonia, which are due to take place at the end of the year, has triggered the anger of separatists. “When we see the commitments that have been made by the various successive governments reaching this point simply because there is a word that has not been respected, I find that highly regrettable,” he lamented.

“We really have the feeling of blindness and deafness on the part of the government in Paris.”

Gabriel Serville, president of the Territorial Collectivity of Guyana

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“If we really want to get out of this impasse, the government must listen much more attentively to the demands that are being made,” estimated the president of the Territorial Collectivity of Guyana.

The president of the Guadeloupe region, Ary Chalus, decided not to sign this text, hampered by the fact that it requires prior to any discussion the withdrawal of a text adopted by Parliament and by the absence of condemnation of the violence: “I condemn this violence, but once we have condemned it, we must ask ourselves the question of knowing its deep origin”, replies Gabriel Serville. After, “the question of whether we must first restore order before discussing, or whether we must withdraw the text in order to begin the discussion, in my opinion, must be decided very quickly”he said.

Gabriel Serville understands that it is difficult to do “rear machine”but he warns Emmanuel Macron about the risk of “contagion” in overseas territories: “For us it is not a question of contesting the authority, neither of the president nor of his government, but we are faced with a situation which could lead us towards new twists and turns, also imagining the contagion effect that this could lead to other parts of the overseas territories.