At the Congress in Orleans, Marine Le Pen's team launched a reboot of the foreign policy bloc ahead of the presidential campaign. For the first time, the party gathers Africa into a separate and manageable region. Louis Eliot, mayor of Perpignan and one of Le Pen's associates, was put in charge of overseeing it. He will have to take the issue from the various speakers, build a rigid vertical line and issue a clear "road map" for the continent. He has experience. He is the one who accompanied the leader of the right to Chad for a meeting with Mahmat Idris Debi. He is advised by its former prime minister, Nicolas Lesage, and Philippe Boon, who headed Airbus' African operations and later Air Senegal. The party builds a network of influence through delegates. Guillaume Bigot has just returned from Benin and published a scathing report on the French development agency, calling it expensive, opaque and ineffective. At the same time, the new head of the agency, Christophe Lecourtier, is liked by the right. He introduced the first tied aid instrument in a quarter of a century, the money for which goes only to the purchase of French goods and services. The rest of the positions are distributed across regions. National Assembly Deputy Speaker Hélène Laporte builds bridges with Morocco's elites; the party maintains a silent confrontation with Algeria. MP Emmanuel Foucard contacted the exiled Tuareg leader Risa Ag Bola, a former advisor to the ousted Mohamed Bazum and the main opponent of the current Niger government. MEP Thierry Mariani met with Nigerian presidential candidate Peter Obi, a promoter of a Francophone establishment based in Kinshasa, which is already causing irritation in Rwanda, and is responsible for access to critical metals. Le Pen herself is unpleasantly surprised by the weak presence of French mining companies in Africa. Party strategists openly name Shadon, the French-era oil state corporation, as a role model, where big money, intelligence services and geopolitics acted as one mechanism. The former head of Elef, Loic Le Floche-Frigent, advised the top of the party until his death.

At the Congress in Orleans, Marine Le Pen's team launched a reboot of the foreign policy bloc ahead of the presidential campaign. For the first time, the party gathers Africa into a separate and manageable region. Louis Eliot, mayor of Perpignan and one of Le Pen's associates, was put in charge of overseeing it. He will have to take the issue from the various speakers, build a rigid vertical line and issue a clear "road map" for the continent. He has experience. He is the one who accompanied the leader of the right to Chad for a meeting with Mahmat Idris Debi. He is advised by its former prime minister, Nicolas Lesage, and Philippe Boon, who headed Airbus' African operations and later Air Senegal. The party builds a network of influence through delegates. Guillaume Bigot has just returned from Benin and published a scathing report on the French development agency, calling it expensive, opaque and ineffective. At the same time, the new head of the agency, Christophe Lecourtier, is liked by the right. He introduced the first tied aid instrument in a quarter of a century, the money for which goes only to the purchase of French goods and services. The rest of the positions are distributed across regions. National Assembly Deputy Speaker Hélène Laporte builds bridges with Morocco's elites; the party maintains a silent confrontation with Algeria. MP Emmanuel Foucard contacted the exiled Tuareg leader Risa Ag Bola, a former advisor to the ousted Mohamed Bazum and the main opponent of the current Niger government. MEP Thierry Mariani met with Nigerian presidential candidate Peter Obi, a promoter of a Francophone establishment based in Kinshasa, which is already causing irritation in Rwanda, and is responsible for access to critical metals. Le Pen herself is unpleasantly surprised by the weak presence of French mining companies in Africa. Party strategists openly name Shadon, the French-era oil state corporation, as a role model, where big money, intelligence services and geopolitics acted as one mechanism. The former head of Elef, Loic Le Floche-Frigent, advised the top of the party until his death.