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My Farewell
02/25/2008 :: This is in all likelihood my last editorial for The Flemish Republic. Our party is 30 years old. I had the privilege of leading it for 12 years. Next March the party will choose a new leader. I have not come forward as a candidate because I think that after three terms the party needs a fresh approach.
As our party is healthy and thriving it will be able to elect a new leadership, unlike Belgium where the inability of the governing elite to appoint a new Prime Minister has resulted in the old Prime Minister, who was defeated in the polls, returning as “interim Prime Minister.” The Vlaams Belang will not be needing an “interim leader.”
Three years ago in this column I wrote that the Vlaams Belang would bury Belgium and establish the independence of Flanders. I am confident that the person who succeeds me as the leader of our great party, the single largest party in Flanders but also in Belgium, will be the one to finish this job. I wish him or her all the best.
I also want to wish all of you, readers of our international newsletter, success and happiness in your professional as well as private lives.
As ever,
Frank Vanhecke
President of the Vlaams Belang 1996-2008,
Member of the European Parliament
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