A new movement advocating sovereignty has been launched in New Caledonia - two weeks before a referendum on independence from France.
New movement launched in New Caledonia Photo: supplied FB
Representatives of two minor parties held the founding Congress to create the Nationalist Movement for the Sovereignty of Kanaky, or MSNK.
The new movement includes the MNIS party as well as the Labour Party, which was linked to the USTKE union.
The MSNK meeting elected Louis Kotra Uregei as its president.
Earlier Kotra Uregei said the pro-independence FLNKS movement had over the years drifted away from its original mission, likening it to a political cartel.
Should voters again reject independence this year, another referendum can be called by New Caledonia's Congress within two years.
