20 - وفي الأشهر التي أعقبت انتخابات أيار/مايو 1999، أشارت التقارير الصحفية إلى وجود قدر كبير من الخلاف بين حزب التجمع من أجل كاليدونيا داخل الجمهورية وجبهة الكاناك الاشتراكية للتحرير الوطني بسبب تفسيرهما المختلف لمفهوم “الطابع الجماعي” في الشؤون الحكومية.
In the months following the elections of May 1999, press reports noted considerable friction between RPCR and FLNKS due to their differing interpretations of “collegiality” in government matters. The debate grew out of the absence of any precise definition of collegiality in organic law No. 99-209 of 19 March 1999, article 128 of which states simply that the Government is responsible collegially and jointly for matters within its competence. The debate was triggered by two things.