Patriots Network’s Launch in Asia

The international Patriots Network, their conferences and events have been a constant part of our monitoring during the last months. In the end of this month, on November 28, the far-right organisation will launch their network in Asia - two years after their start in Europe 2023 and one year after the American launch. This might bring the network another boost.

The Patriots Network (following I will use the abbreviation PN although the Network with the ambiguos name does not use any, as a logo PN uses the symbol of the Google software kit Flutter) invites to the New Delhi Conference at the Indian parliament „with the presence of more than 25 countries from Asia, Europe and America”. Like at most of their former conferences, the schedule is filled with panel discussions and speeches by a number of „deputies, senators, MEPs, authors and specialists”. (For more details about the announced and confirmed speakers see in our list of upcoming events.)

Golf, Champagne and an accused president

In October 2023 the network was launched with two dozen members during an ‘International Patriot Golf Tournament’ at the course of Cabre d’Or in France, sponsored by a Champagne producer. From the start the organisation was headed by the french president Enzo Alias. Alias, who is also known by the name Alias-Blanes, is a former member of the Rassemblement National. He had served as a youth coordinator and also run for elections in Arles in 2021 - without success. Then, in 2022, a picture of him showing a Hitler salute together with friends was released online. Alias-Blanes defended himself by saying the fotos were manufactured and announced to get the pictures and the accusations erased from the public. But no evidence for manipulations was found and three years later the pictures are still online.

Organizing the party youth

Since the start the organisation held ten conferences plus some smaller events like Summer Parties, presentations (like the one in July in Poland with Młodych dla Wolności - Youth for Freedom) or online videocalls. The conference in New Delhi is announced as the eighth conference and last event in this year. The places and chosen venues follow the aim of PN to „organize events for all network members to meet on a continental or global scale”.

In the beginning PN collected many single members from various countries, most in Europe, some in South and Northern America as ‘National Coordinators’, only lately also some from the African and Asian continent. The first boost was the ‘American Launch’ in El Salvador in November 2024. The Argentinian Juan Ignacio Oyarzú became Vice President and started to play an important role in the organisation; the Vice Chairman of Foro Panamericano de Jóvenes Políticos in Buenos Aires works in Brussels as an assistant for the Member of European Parliament, Markus Buchheit (AfD). 

German members from the start

The AfD has been a part in the network right from the start - a difference to other international networks where the AfD is still rarely invited. First German Coordinator was Séverin Köhler from the AfD in Baden-Württemberg. Köhler knew PN-leader Alias before the start of the organisation when he campaigned for Alias-Blanes 2021 in the streets of Arles together with other AfD members from the south-west of Germany. Since early 2025 Köhler, former member of the now dissolved Junge Alternative, is facing an exclusion procedure from the AfD. He was critized for his close ties to the Nazist Identitarian Movement. In March 2025 he was replaced by Martin Kohler, AfD Berlin, as coordinator.

More to come?

The network under Alias and Oyarzú is thriving: today they count 39 national coordinators, a president, a vice president and an international secretary (Frank Alley from Honduras). Several of the latest additions came from Africa and Asia like the women Dorcas Francis from Tanzania and Charu Pragya from the BJP - Bharatiya Janata Party in India, known from similar far-right conferences in Europe.

 The Patriots Network is not only a place for networking and meetings but also pushing the far-right agenda among the younger party politicians in key countries. The PN conference in Honduras in September was not only announced as „epicenter of leadership” but also a two-days-workshop to „receive practical tools and strategic knowledge to address current political challenges, including the November 2025 general elections and the defense against socialism in the region.” On November 30 the presidential and congressional elections will take place in Honduras, see our short report here. PN is addressing this goals strategically and with a serious amount of ressources.

These conferences are not only a place to discuss campaigns but part of the campaign itself.

Redaction: Ulli Jentsch