National Force

• Write the two-term limit into the Constitution, with no possibility of changing it by referendum.
• Publish an evaluation of every minister each year.
• Entrust appointments to a National Council for Selection and Merit.
• Guarantee the independence of the judiciary and protect whistleblowers.

How we measure it: The share of appointments made through the Merit Council and the evaluation of every minister, published every year.

• Make all public revenue traceable on a digital platform, and publish mining titles, concessions and contracts.
• Write into the Constitution an automatic budget rule and an investment floor that no government can lower, drawing on Germany's debt brake and on Norway's rule limiting withdrawals from its oil fund to 3% a year.
• Separate mining revenue from the current budget: it goes into a DRC 2050 Sovereign Fund, and only the fund's returns pay for infrastructure.
• Protect future generations: any major borrowing is subject to a stricter approval rule.
• Guarantee the independence of the Central Bank.

How we measure it: The share of revenue traceable online and the rate at which the investment budget is actually spent, checked by the Court of Audit.

• Raise local processing of strategic minerals from 10% to 50%, all the way to batteries.
• Modernise agriculture to reach food self-sufficiency.
• Open a single digital business window and give start-ups and SMEs three tax-free years.
• Build a transfer of skills into every foreign partnership.

How we measure it: The share of output processed in the country and the number of jobs created.

• Build 5,000 schools and renovate 3,000 by 2030.
• Make school free for every child.
• Train 500,000 young people in digital skills and open 500 vocational training centres by 2030.
• In addition, train 500,000 skilled workers over ten years for mining, energy, agriculture and technology.

How we measure it: Every school built or renovated made public, province by province.

• Relaunch Inga and bring electricity to every province, with solar mini-grids and micro-dams.
• Make electricity free for schools and health centres, and cheap for households.
• Modernise the Banana-Matadi-Kinshasa corridor.
• Audit every project and publish its contracts.

How we measure it: The electrification rate, published every year.

• Three functions, and only three: defend the country's territorial integrity, protect the constitutional order as a last resort, and secure borders, infrastructure and strategic resources.
• The monopoly of force belongs to the nation, not to one man, a clan or a faction. The army can never be deployed to keep a government in power against a lawful opposition. Those who order it and those who carry it out answer for it in court.
• The army never acts on its own initiative. To protect the constitutional order, three conditions must be met at the same time: the Constitutional Court establishes the violation, Parliament formally finds it can no longer function normally, and the High Council for Military Oversight confirms. If any one is missing, no deployment is allowed.
• A professional, unified and apolitical army: recruitment by competitive exam, mixed units, no officer commanding a unit in his home region, no serving soldier in a political party.
• A High Council for Military Oversight in three equal parts: officers chosen by their peers, lawyers chosen by the Constitutional Court, and civil society members chosen by Parliament.
• Regular pay, a minimum budget guaranteed by the Constitution, and no commercial activity for the army.

How we measure it: The share of soldiers paid on time, audited military spending and the sanctions imposed, presented to Parliament every year.

• Choose our alliances according to Congo's interests.
• Submit every strategic agreement with a foreign power to Parliament for ratification, and publish it in full.
• Demand the withdrawal of Rwandan forces and an end to their support for the M23, as the UN Security Council requires.
• Make every partnership a transfer of technology and skills.

How we measure it: The number of agreements published and ratified by Parliament, and the skills transfers secured in each partnership.

• Teach Lingala, Swahili, Kikongo and Tshiluba at school, with translated textbooks and trained teachers, so that every child begins school thinking in their own language.
• Teach our history, written by Congolese historians, from the Kingdom of Kongo to independence and up to today.
• Protect our heritage and support Congolese music, arts, fashion and film, for a living culture that travels abroad.
• No obligation on anyone's name, dress or faith. The nation's major symbolic choices will be decided by consulting the people.

How we measure it: The place of national languages in the school curriculum, published every year.

• Eleven provinces instead of twenty-six, redrawn according to geographic coherence, economic viability and the capacity to govern. The boundaries will be set through a national consultation of the people concerned, then by a constitutional reform put to the people.
• A Parliament rooted in the territories: an Assembly of Territories of 290 members, one man and one woman in each of the 145 territories, elected locally and not chosen by the parties. The diaspora, recognised as the twelfth region, sits in the Senate of the Regions and the Diaspora.
• Governors appointed on merit for a first term, then elected by the provincial assemblies. None governs their home province, to shield them from family and community pressure. Rotation every five years.
• The 145 territories as the foundation of State action, each with an administrator publicly evaluated every year.

How we measure it: A public evaluation of every province and every territory, every year.