[15] On 6 September 2010 Geybels demanded her mandate as Senator back, claiming she was forced to resign by N-VA leaders, and started the procedure to retrieve it.
[4][16] Early October 2010 the N-VA suspended Geybels membership of the party and all legal procedures to retrieve her Senate mandate had failed.
After more than eight years, a Chamber of the Court judged that the procedures governing the resignation of senators were not sufficiently clear, and did not protect against arbitrary proceedings.
The Court found, amongst other things, that the Bureau deciding on the validity of Geybels' resignation had not heard her or asked her to submit her version of the case.
Ultimately, the Court found a breach of the elections clause of the European Convention on Human Rights (Protocol 1, Article 3) and awarded her a compensation of 35.000 euro.