New Caledonia's 11 newly elected ministers are tomorrow due to elect a new president.
The French territory has been without a properly constituted government since early February when its five pro-independence ministers resigned.
The French High Commissioner has called the meeting after an earlier bid to choose a president failed.
Six of the 11 ministers are from pro-independence parties but they were split into two groups and have yet to agree whether to elect Louis Mapou or Samuel Hnepeune to lead the new team.
A budget needs to passed before the end of the month for the territory to avoid being placed under French stewardship.
During the new government's term, New Caledonia is expected to hold its third and last referendum on independence from France.
Meanwhile there is a call for an extraordinary meeting of the Congress to discuss ways of extending the partial unemployment scheme brought in because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Thousands of employees benefited from the scheme introduced last April in the face of an economic slowdown.
A pro-independence faction asked the Congress president to convene such a meeting to discuss an extension, which was proposed last week by the anti-independence Future with Confidence party.
With last month's fall of the government, the administration is in a caretaker mode and lacks the legal power to roll it over.
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