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 Sui generis collectivity, 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 i ...

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

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of the

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under the Organic Law no. 99-209.

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