The elected executives of various overseas territories, meeting on Saturday in Guadeloupe at the invitation of Ary Chalus, president of the region, displayed their “political and intellectual unity (…) in the desire for change”, they declared on Saturday July 29, to the press.
In a letter addressed to President Emmanuel Macron, the elected signatories of the Appeal of Fort-de-France (which demanded a change in the overseas policy of the State in May 2022), ask the President for annual meetings , starting with a first “end of August”.
“It is a question of ensuring” the application of the measures announced by the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, on July 18 following the Interministerial Committee for Overseas Territories (CIOM) “for the improvement of the living conditions of our populations,” they write.
“Be Heard”
They also called on their counterparts from Polynesia, New Caledonia, Wallis and Futuna to join them, to carry the voice of the “2.7 million ultramarines” and so that “we can be heard”, specified Ary Chalus. They also ask to participate in the debates around the constitutional revision, announced in New Caledonia, which would modify the statutes of their territories.
On Friday, the congress of elected officials from Martinique validated the deepening of various scenarios of constitutional revisions, acting to open public debate in Martinique on this subject.
The congress of elected representatives of Guadeloupe, on June 7, took the resolution to initiate “within 6 months” the reflection on the overhaul of local institutions, but also to “ask the government to include Guadeloupe in the constitutional reform project “.
