Future Together
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L'Avenir Ensemble
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|---|---|
| Leader | Harold Martin |
| Founded | 2004 |
| Headquarters | 2 bis, Boulevard Vauban - Centre Ville 98800 Nouméa |
| Ideology |
Anti-separatism, Centrism, Christian democracy, Liberalism, Gaullism (minority) |
| National affiliation | Union for a Popular Movement, MoDem, New Centre |
| European affiliation | None |
| International affiliation | None |
| European Parliament group | None |
| Colours | Orange |
| Seats in the Congress |
2 / 54
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| Seats in the South Province |
2 / 40
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| Seats in the North Province |
0 / 22
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| Seats in the Loyalty Islands Province |
0 / 14
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| Website | |
| www.avenirensemble.nc | |
The Future Together (French: l'Avenir Ensemble, pronounced: [lavəniʁ ɑ̃ˈsɑ̃bl]) is a center-right political party in New Caledonia supporting the maintenance of political and administrative ties with France.
The name l'Avenir Ensemble reflects the party's desire to unite New Caledonians of all ethnic groups (White Europeans, Melanesian Kanaks, Polynesian immigrants, etc.) into a shared future, rejecting the ethnic oppositions of the hitherto dominant parties of New Caledonia (White anti-independence parties vs. Kanak pro-independence parties). L'Avenir Ensemble believes in a multi-ethnic and multi-cultural future for New Caledonia.
The party's predecessor, A New Caledonia for All (Une Nouvelle-Calédonie pour Tous, UNCT) or Alliance (after 1998) was founded in 1995 by Didier Leroux, a former member of the dominant anti-nationalist Rally for Caledonia in the Republic (RPCR). Leroux was an early opponent of Jacques Lafleur within the RPCR. Leroux led the NO campaign in the Nouméa Accord referendum in 1998. Despite Leroux being François Bayrou's representative on the island and a member of Bayrou's Union for French Democracy (and now MoDem), a number of members of the original Alliance are members of the Union for a Popular Movement.
The then-dominant loyalist party, the RPCR was weakened in 2003 and 2004 by a series of dissidents, who opposed Jacques Lafleur's domination of the RPCR. These dissidents included Marie-Noëlle Thémereau, who had left the RPCR in 2001; Harold Martin, once Lafleur’s dauphin but excluded in 2003 for running a dissident list in the 2001 election; and Philippe Gomès, a friend of Martin. These dissidents formed a party called Future Together.
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