Germany’s Far-Right Wants to Expand West

By Uwe Hessler
Sept. 24, 2006

Encouraged by their successes at polls in the economically sagging eastern Germany, far-right political parties are now trying to appeal to disgruntled voters in the western part of the country.

“Now we want to tackle the west,” said Udo Voigt, chairman of the far-right extremist National Democratic Party (NDP), this week in Berlin, just days after his party won more than 7 percent of the vote in state elections in Mecklenburg-Western Pommerania.

Under the motto “Work - Family - Home,” leaders of the NPD and the right-wing German People’s Union (DVU) renewed their alliance Thursday, saying their strategy of striking separately but winning together has been bearing fruit. (….Full Article)