With issues such as the outcome of the Sanda Dia lawsuit case with allegiations of class justice and the pension scandal to politicians of self-enrichment, its maybe natural that VLD is facing the consequences of these. I suppose that especially in their rural strongholds they have a steep decline of people moving to right wing parties. We might elsewhere make gains on the right wing: PVDA and probably Connor's Rousseau/Vooruits increasing immigrant and working class bashing also does wondering for them, inspired by Mette Frederiksen.
We now have a liberal party that is not liberal and a socialist party that is not socialist.
What does this actually involve? From the outside they just look a bit weird, but the polls suggest it’s working electorally so maybe not.