Far Right worry for Merkel

A FAR-RIGHT anti-foreigner party has embarrassed German Chancellor Angela Merkel in a regional election in her home state and delivered a wake-up call to her 10-month-old government, analysts warned yesterday.

Far Right worry for Merkel

The government has compared the National Democratic Party (NPD) to Hitler’s Nazis, and analysts and columnists said the NPD’s performance in Sunday’s ballot was a rebuke for the grand coalition’s fumbled first year.

The NPD polled 7.3% in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany’s poorest state on the Baltic near Poland, claiming six seats in the 71-seat state parliament.

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