 He was also re-elected to the National Assembly from Nyong-et-Kelle constituency in the 1997 parliamentary election and was the only UPC candidate to win a seat.After the election, he was excluded from the government that was formed on December 7, 1997, in which a rival UPC leader, Henri Hogbé Nlend, was named Minister of Scientific Research.On January 13, 2001, Kodock and various other party leaders participated in an unauthorized protest in Yaoundé against the National Election Observatory, believing that it would not be an impartial body.