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Martinique: Debating over the statutory change

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009 @ 18:56 UTC

by Fabienne Flessel

Countries:: Martinique
Topics:: Elections, Ethnicity, Governance, Politics
Languages:: French, English

Martinican MontrayKreyol discusses the popular debates [Fr] over the change of institutional status of Martinique as a French overseas department.

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