The World - News from Oct. 16, 1988
The rightist Rally for the Republic Party, firmly opposed to independence for the South Pacific island of New Caledonia, called on French voters to boycott a Nov. 6 referendum on the status of the territory, party leaders said. Jacques Chirac, mayor of Paris and party leader, led a vote in the party’s central committee that overwhelmingly endorsed abstaining from the referendum. The nationwide balloting asks voters to decide on the plan, which was signed June 26 by Socialist Premier Michel Rocard and leaders of New Caledonia’s main parties--the pro-independence Kanak Socialist National Liberation Front and the Rally for New Caledonia in the Republic.
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