Charles Pidjot

Charles Pidjot, nickname Charly Pidjot an independent politician Kanak,^[1] who was born in the community of Conceptions in Le Mont-Dore (New-Caledonia) 17 July 1962, and who is the president of the Caledonian Union since 8 November 2007.

Political heritage

He was born to a veritable political dynasty, So he is the cousin of Rock Pidjot, who was an early elected representative of New Caledonia from 1864 to 1986. From 1956 to 1985 he also was the first president of Caledonian Union, At the beginnings he was an autonomist, but later became an independentist. His brother, Raphaël also became a militarist independentist, and he described himself as the president of the South Pacific Society of Miners. (This society was founded by those who wanted to assure the participation of kanak in the mining on the territory and by those, who organised the project of North's Factory.) He said it up to his and some of his colleagues' death which was caused in 2000 by an accident of their helicopter.

References

1. ^ Banks, Arthur S.; Muller, Thomas C.; Overstreet, William (2008-04-01). Political Handbook of the World 2008. CQ Press. p. 461. ISBN 9780872895287. http://books.google.com/books?id=vXU_CplFBLYC. Retrieved 28 September 2011. 

This article incorporates information from the equivalent article on the French Wikipedia.

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