Jean Lèques (31 August 1931 – 1 June 2022) was a

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n politician. He served as

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Nouméa Nouméa () is the capital and largest city of the French special collectivity of New Caledonia and is also the largest francophone city in Oceania. It is situated on a peninsula in the south of New Caledonia's main island, Grande Terre, a ...

from 1986 to 2014; between 1999 and 2001 he was the first sitting

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of the

government of New Caledonia New Caledonia is a French sui generis collectivity with a system of government based on parliamentarism and representative democracy. The President of the Government is the head of government, and there is a multi-party system, with Executive ...

under the Organic Law no. 99-209.

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