re: #142 Sergey Romanov

Elst actively contributes to nationalist New Right Flemish publications, and has shown sympathy to the Nouvelle Droite movement since the early 1990s.

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Jan De Zutter criticized Elst for being too close with the Vlaams Belang, as in June 1992, Koenraad Elst gave a speech directed against Islam at the Vlaams Blok Colloquium where the party proposed its first version of its 70 point anti-immigration policy[17] Elst said that he spoke there because it was the only party where the “problem of Islam” was brought up, but that he also explicitly said that he did not agree with the party’s solution for that problem, and disapproved of their xenophobia.[18] He stated that the VB can not be and was never his party because of its xenophobia and ethnocentrism.[19] Since this event, he has often been accused of being the party’s specialist on Islam and its link with the new Pagan Movement.[citation needed] Though he himself denies any affinity to the party program,[20] he admits to “lukewarm” sympathy for the Flemish cause (of independence).[21] Lucas Catherine contrasted Elst’s viewpoint with the viewpoint of Filip Dewinter, who according to him could not have been very happy with Elst’s opinion that not Muslims, but Islam, is the problem.[22]

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