Omer Vanaudenhove

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Omer Rudolphe Jean Vanaudenhove (Diest, 3 December 1913 - Leuven, 26 November 1994) was a Belgian liberal and politician, burgomaster and minister. Vanaudenhove was a business man and owner of a shoe factory. He was burgomaster of Diest (1947-1955 and 1974-1976), liberal senator (1954-1974), President of the liberal party (1961) and president and founder of the PVV-PLP (1961-1969).

In the new party programme of the PVV-PLP the traditional anticlericalism of the liberal party was abjured. This new organization achieved a spectacular success at the parliamentary elections of 1965 and conquered 48 seats (with regard to 20 in 1961). Vanaudenhove was a proponent of a unitary Belgium and a unitarian PVV-PLP, but the tendency towards a federal state became unstoppable by the end of the sixties. Vanaudenhove was minister of public work and rebuilding (1955-1958 and 1958-1961).

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