PARIS (Reuters) – The South Pacific archipelago of New Caledonia voted against independence from France in a referendum on Sunday, full provisional results showed.

The ‘no’ camp won 53.26% of the vote, a narrower margin of victory than in a previous referendum in 2018.

(Reporting by Mathieu Rosemain; Editing by Richard Lough and David Goodman)

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