the superlative that provided Elbers the opportunity to raise the bid. The same year, Jef Elbers wrote a poem in tribute to the leader of the VMO, Bert Eriksson. Script for a television series for young people From the eighties onwards, Jef Elbers had also been working for the Dutch broadcastings of the Belgian Radio and Television (BRT). Under the nom de plume Dick Durver, Elbers wrote scripts for television programs for the youngsters, such as Merlina, Postbus X and Interflix. Merlina is a detective series for children. Initially, the intention was not to make twenty episodes, but finally 95 of them were created. Elbers worked on the program In 't lieg plafon, for the radio, which was broadcast in the Brussels dialect. In the mid-eighties, Elbers abandoned his career as a singer. 1992–2000 The board of directors of the BRT Elbers was a board member of his former employer, BRTN, from April 1992 onwards. He was the first representative of the Vlaams Blok, the party for which he was a candidate in municipal elections of 1988 in Schaerbeek. After having been designated as their representative on the board of directors, the Vlaams Blok, stated in February 1992 that it wanted to contribute constructively to the management of the BRTN: ”an institution that has been in the past one of the sharpest opponents of the Vlaams Blok.” The party will ensure that the BRTN won't take up more misinformation, manipulation or interpretation, wishes to promote Flemish citizenship and puts the emphasis on Flemish culture. Jef Elbers states that he wants to work for "a public radio and television nearer to the people, that merits respect, expresses joy to work and gives priority to the own Dutch culture." Elbers is one of the few artists that the party has drawn so far. Elbers also criticized what he called 'the agency of emancipation' of the BRTN: "This service was established to please Miet Smet and handles so-called 'affirmative action' for women in the House." (Note: BRTN) "This agency of emancipation would do better to investigate why the women of the BRTN are, on average, ill four days longer as their male colleagues, rather than studying with Paula D'Hondt how a foreigner could get a job at the BRTN.” Knokke-Heist and a new set of programs for the youth Having lived many years in Schaerbeek, Jef Elbers moved to and settled in the