New Caledonia's alliance of pro-independence political parties has held a major congress in preparation for the provincial elections in May.
The mainly indigenous FLNKS consists of two main parties and two smaller ones that all seek independence from France.
They will be up against a number of other pro-independence parties, such as the the Labour Party, as well as seven anti-independence parties.
Our correspondent in the territory, Claudine Wery, reports that the challenge for the pro-independence campaigners is to present a unified list in the three provinces.
"At the last election in 2004 the FLNKS was very divided and there were at least three different lists from the FLNKS and the result has been that there are no FLNKS representatives in the Southern province. So they don't want to replay the scenario this year."
Claudine Wery says a unified list will be hard to achieve in the Northern Province and Loyalty Islands, where different pro-independence groups have a majority, while in the Southern Province the FLNKS struggles for support.
