The POB-BWP spent ten months in planning during the aftermath of the 1912 election and instructed workers to put aside money in advance.
[1] It was supported financially by a number of leading Belgians Liberals, including Émile Francqui and Raoul Warocqué, who believed that the only way to stop continued Catholic Party dominance was to end the plural voting system.
The failure of the 1902 general strike had partly been due to the consensus between Catholic and Liberal politicians to block further electoral reform.
[4][2] A commission was created, officially to review the franchise for municipal and provincial elections, in the expectation that it would recommend the suppression of plural voting.
In 1918, King Albert forged a post-war "Government of National Union" in the "Loppem Agreements" which brought the POB into power for the first time and paved the way for the abolition of plural suffrage.