For the first time since Monday, the situation is calmer and more peaceful in greater Noumea, the commission said in a statement. However, there had been fires at a school and two businesses overnight, it added.
Anger has been simmering for weeks over French plans to expand the vote in New Caledonia to outsiders who have lived on the island for 10 years or more, in a relaxation of voting restrictions agreed upon after an earlier period of political unrest in the 1980s.
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