New Caledonia transferred certain powers. As such its citizens have French nationality and vote for the president of France. They have the right to vote in elections to the European Parliament. It is governed by a 54-member Territorial Congress, a legislative body composed of members of three provincial assemblies. The French State is represented in the territory by a High Commissioner. At a national level, New Caledonia is represented in the French Parliament by two deputies and two senators. At the 2012 French presidential election, the voter turnout in New Caledonia was 61.19%. For 25 years, the party system in New Caledonia
Governor of the South Pacific Mandate Nations placed the territory under the United States trusteeship as the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. The islands are now part of Palau, Northern Mariana Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, and Marshall Islands. The following is a list of the Governors the South Pacific Mandate, as well as their predecessors during the Japanese occupation of the territory between 1914 and 1922. Governor of the South Pacific Mandate The Governor of the South Pacific Mandate (officially known as the Director of the South Sea Agency) was an official who ruled the South Pacific Mandate, a League of Nations mandate in