Éloi Machoro

Who is Éloi Machoro?

Éloi Machoro was an independentist New Caledonian Kanak politician.

After he had founded the seminary of Païta, in 1974 he became a teacher. He selected as a party for himself the Caledonian Union which chose in 1977 in the Congress of Bourail under the leadership of Jean-Marie Tjibaou independent of Caledonia as an official position. In the same year he was chosen as a representative of his party in Territorial Assembly of New Caledonia. He quickly climbed the political ladder steadily until 1981 when after the assassination of Pierre Declercq at his own house on 19 September 1981 Machoro had reached the position of UC's general secretary. As a Kanak nationalist, he wished that New Caledonia never will be like it was before.», and among participants of the party's central part he represented the most radical partisans of Socialist Kanak Independence movement. Jean-Marie Tjibaou was the leader of the organisation, which would use armed forces also, if necessary. He and other independentist militants went to Libya-

The Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front was formed on 18 November 1984 which replaced Independentist Front.