 The party was founded in January 2007 by Senator Jean-Marie Dedecker as List Dedecker also 'LDD').Dedecker had left the New Flemish Alliance to found the LDD after the "Cassandra" think tank judged in 2006 that there was room for a right-wing conservative-liberal movement in the Flemish Community, expressing the need for a "common sense party".The 2007 federal election was the first ever election contested by Lijst Dedecker.