In 1973 Roeland Raes, of the Belgian Vlaams Blok, became vice-president (reflecting the desire of both parties to unite the Netherlands and Flanders) and later that year Joop Glimmerveen took over the position of president.
Joop Zoetemelk | Joop van Oosterom | Joop van den Ende | Joop Doderer | Joop den Uyl | Wolfgang Joop | Joop Wijn | Joop van Wijk | Joop ter Heul | Joop Glimmerveen | Joop Boutmy |
One of the biggest critics of current NVU's leader Constant Kusters is Joop Glimmerveen, the face and leader of the NVU since the beginning of the 1970s and party ideologist until the end of the 1990s.