Léopold Jorédié (1947 – 8 September 2013) was a former

Vice President of the Government of New Caledonia The vice president of the Government of New Caledonia (french: Vice-Président du gouvernement de la Nouvelle-Calédonie) is a political position in the Government of New Caledonia. According to the Nouméa Accord, the vice president in the colle ...

who served under

Jean Lèques Jean Lèques (31 August 1931 – 1 June 2022) was a New Caledonian politician. He served as mayor of Nouméa from 1986 to 2014; between 1999 and 2001 he was the first sitting president of the government of New Caledonia New Caledonia is ...

. As VP he was given a suspended sentence for corruption. In 2007 he was declared unfit to hold public office and declared bankrupt. He was a member of the

Federation of Pro-Independence Co-operation Committees The Federation of Pro-Independence Co-operation Committees () is a political party in New Caledonia supporting the island's independence from France, although it is the most moderate of all nationalist parties. The FCCI was founded in 1998 by th ...

. Although the FCCI itself is a moderate nationalist party, from the 1980s onward he was seen as more militant and even open to "armed struggle" against the French."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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