Léopold Jorédié

Léopold Jorédié (1947 – 8 September 2013) was a former Vice-President of the Government of New Caledonia under Jean Lèques. As VP he was given a suspended sentence for corruption.[1] In 2007 he was declared unfit to hold public office and bankrupt.[2] He is of the Federation of Pro-Independence Co-operation Committees.[3] Although the FCCI is a moderate nationalist party in the 1980s he was seen as more militant and even open to "armed struggle" against the French.[4]

References

  1. ↑ BBC Archive - Oct 1, 2001
  2. ↑ Islands Business
  3. ↑ The Contemporary Pacific 12.2 (2000) 515-520
  4. ↑ "Noumea Journal; On an Island in the Pacific, but Far From at Peace" in the July 26, 1988 edition of The New York Times
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