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A Gendarmerie armored vehicle drives past the filtering roadblock set up on the bays, Promenade Pierre Vernier, in Noumea. Photo: AFP / Delphine Mayeur
In New Caledonia, uncertainty continue to hamper efforts to return the French Territory to normalcy amid a snap election, which polls in France suggest will be a tight race.
Last week's arrests and indictment of pro-independence leaders, who are awaiting trial as prisoners in France has sparked even more unrest in Noumea and other provincial centres.
RNZ Pacific Editor Koroi Hawkins spoke with Islands Business journalist Nic Maclellan, who has been following developments in New Caledonia and explained what could happen if there is no clear election winner.