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LONDON, U.K.—With the sole exception of the 50 people on Pitcairn Island, the United Kingdom—once known as the British Empire—liquidated its holdings in the Pacific Ocean long ago. France, by contrast, has a half million citizens in the Pacific, and another two million people living in other bits of its former empire on islands in all the world’s major oceans.
In the first referendum, in 2018, with all the Kanaks except for only long-established residents of other ethnicities eligible to vote, 56 per cent of the voters supported remaining part of France. In the second referendum in 2020, with the same electorate—all the Kanaks, but only about half of the total adult population—that dropped to 53 per cent in favour of staying French.
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