
An alliance of pro-independence parties in New Caledonia has nominated the imprisoned activist Christian Tein as head of the prominent opposition FLNKS group. Tein is currently being detained in France over a wave of deadly rioting in the French Pacific territory.
Christian Tein – who considers himself a "political prisoner" – was one of seven pro-independence activists transferred to mainland France in June in a move that sparked renewed violence that has raged across the archipelago and left 11 people dead.