 However he soon gained the upper hand and, returning to the leadership, forced Neubauer out of the party and replaced him as vice-chairman with Rolf Schlierer.With Neubauer and a number of his followers purged, they regrouped in January 1991 under the banner of the "Deutsche Allianz-Vereinigte Rechte", before adopting the DVLH sobriquet later that same year.The new group had the declared aim of uniting the many factions on the far-right under a single banner and initially had some success, attracting three Republikaner MEPs (Johanna Grund, Peter Köhler and Hans-Günther Schodruch) and the support of the influential "Nation Europa" journal.