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He left the Volksunie in 1971 out of dissatisfaction with the left-wing course of that party. After the Volksunievertreason in the Egmont Pact in 1977, the time was ripe for a new Flemish-national party. Together with the Flemish People's Party (VVP) of Lode Claes, the Flemish-national Party (VNP) entered the 1978 parliamentary elections in a cartel and won a seat. To his own surprise, not Claes but he himself was elected. That was the early beginning of the Vlaams Blok.