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Sonia Backès (Sonia Dos Santos) was born on 21 May, 1976 in Nouméa, New Caledonia, is a politician. Discover Sonia Backès's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is She in this year and how She spends money? Also learn how She earned most of networth at the age of 47 years old?

Popular As Sonia Dos Santos
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Age 48 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 21 May 1976
Birthday 21 May
Birthplace Nouméa, New Caledonia
Nationality New Caledonia

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2022

In 2022, she was appointed Secretary of State for Citizenship in the Borne government.

2021

Backès remains strongly opposed to an independent New Caledonia, and this is also the position of her political party. In the runup to a third referendum on independence from France (held in late 2021), she was able to travel to New York to address the United Nations on 17 June 2021, telling the UN Special Committee on Decolonisation that “in New Caledonia, there is no longer an administering power and a colonised people.” This is at odds with the 1998 Nouméa Accord signed by the French state among others, which recognised the Kanak as a “people”, not simply an ethnic minority: saying “Colonisation attacked the dignity of the Kanak people by depriving them of their identity.”

2004

She has been associated with several political parties at territorial and provincial levels, holding portfolios ranging from education and schooling to energy, finance, taxation, the digital economy, and higher education. She was with the RPCR Rally for Caledonia in the Republic until 2004, then the Rassemblement-UMP (The Rally–UMP) (2004-2013). By 2012 she was part of a right faction within the UMP calling for a stronger commitment to anti-independence, or 'loyalist' values. She was suspended by Pierre Frogier in 2013, who said "your political line embodies all the conservatisms and all the archaisms by taking us back 25 years, far from the daring and innovative project that the Rassemblement carries today”. Gaël Yanno and his supporters, including Sonia Backès, created the Caledonian Popular Movement (MPC, Mouvement populaire calédonien) which then won the elections, placing her in a strong position. She moved into the Républicains de Nouvelle-Calédonie (LR-NC) from 2015-2017 and the Républicains calédoniens (RC) from 2017. She became President of the Provincial Assembly of South Province in 2019.

2000

Her first job in Nouméa was at the government DTSI (direction des Technologies et Services de l'Information), while also teaching part time at the UNC. In the mid 2000s she worked in trades unions, notably for the CFE-CGC before quitting in 2008 to enter politics.

1976

Sonia Backès (née Dos Santos; born 21 May 1976) is a French politician in New Caledonia. She is the current leader of the Caledonian Republicans party and the President of the Provincial Assembly of South Province since May 17, 2019.

1952

Born Sonia Dos Santos, she is the daughter of language teachers. Her grandparents on her father's side were Protestant émigrés from Portugal, fleeing Catholicism and the authoritairian Estado Novo regime of António de Oliveira Salazar, arriving in Nouméa in 1952. She attended the lycée Lapérouse de Nouméa, graduating in 1992. She joined the right-wing RPCR party (Rassemblement pour la Calédonie dans la République) in 1994 at the age of 18. She studied at the precursor of the University of New Caledonia (UNC), the Université française du Pacifique à Nouméa, also gaining a Masters in Mathematics from the University of Pau in France in 1997, and becoming a qualified computer engineer in 2001 after study at the Université Joseph-Fourier and the Institut polytechnique in Grenoble.