 At a workshop held to assess progress towards meeting the Millennium Development Goals on December 5–7, 2006, Kodock said that he saw no real hope that Cameroon could meet the goals by 2015.He was re-elected as Secretary-General of the UPC-Kodock faction at a congress on December 30–31, 2006; he also gained stronger powers at the congress.Kodock ran again as a UPC candidate for re-election to the National Assembly in the July 2007 parliamentary election, saying that he believed it was important that a minister in the government obtain popular legitimacy through election to a parliamentary seat.