French President Emmanuel Macron has moved to pull the French Indo-Pacific closer to Paris with the appointment of Sonia Backès, president of New Caledonia’s Southern Province, to his enlarged 42-member government.
French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne officially appointed Backès to the post of secretary of citizenship in the Interior Ministry on July 5, reported RNZ.
This is the first time in 50 years that a politician from New Caledonia has been appointed to the French government after former New Caledonian politician Roger Frey was made French Minister of State between 1959 to 1972.
Backès said she intends to maintain her post as the president of the Southern Province of New Caledonia….
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