The Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front (French: Front de libération nationale kanak et socialiste, FLNKS) is a pro-independence alliance of political parties in New Caledonia.
[1] The UNI includes Melanesian Progressive Union (a political movement based on the island's west coast and mainly around the village of Poya, where its founder, the late Edmond Nekiriai, came from), the Oceanian Democratic Rally (a Polynesian (Wallisian-and-Futunian) based party) and the Party of Kanak Liberation (PALIKA), a more radical party founded by left-leaning students that came back from France after the May 1968 riots.
[2] The party has been divided since the early 1990s between the Caledonian Union and UNI, and, as a result, the two factions often run candidates and lists against each other and neither can agree on a leader of the FLNKS.
In New Caledonia's 1st constituency, Charles Washetine, a member of UNI-Palika, ran with a Caledonian Union running mate.
In New Caledonia's 2nd constituency, the leader of the Caledonian Union, Charles Pidjot, ran with a UNI-Palika running mate.