rating.http://www.dw-world.de/.../0,1594,1432_A_1331600_1_A,00.html?mpb=enThe German National Party (NPD) is expected to record its best result in six years on Sunday when disgruntled voters in the eastern states of Brandenburg and Saxony go to the polls.
German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder recently called them the "brown sump," stating that anything to do with them "damages us, damages Germany and damages us with foreign investors."
He was referring to right-wing extremist parties which appear to be exploiting voter discontentment, specifically in the disadvantaged eastern regions of Germany, over a string of labor market reforms recently passed by the federal government, to gain further footholds in the political arena.
According to the latest polls, both the right-wing National Party (NPD) and German People's Union (DVU) parties appear set to clear the 5 percent hurdle needed to gain seats in the state parliaments at state elections in Brandenburg and Saxony this weekend. Just one week ago, the NPD scored 4 percent of the votes in the western German state of Saarland.
The prospects of a further rise of the NPD has already prompted warnings from business aleaders and political experts who say it could deter future foreign investors in Saxony, which is home to major car plants and factories. "There's a clear damage to the image of the state. There's a lot of foreign interest in the election," Oskar Niedermayer, politics professor and expert on the right wing at Berlin's Free University told Reuters. "Saxony is reliant on foreign investment in many areas."
Anti-foreigner platform
“We need a Germany that puts Germans first,” he said. “Those who leave here to look for a job in western Germany end up being treated worse than Turks. Germans sleep under bridges while foreigners waltz in and pick up the benefits.”
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Germany's far-right parties have recorded their best electoral results in six years as they and the ex-communists profited from discontent over Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's reforms, exit polls say.
The National Democratic Party (NPD), a group the government has likened to the Nazis in their early days, won about 9 percent in Saxony while the far-right German People's Union (DVU) got 6 percent in Brandenburg, another eastern state.
Far-right parties post election successes in eastern Germany amid discontent over the ailing economy.
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The ex-communists of the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) also did well in Brandenburg, but the mainstream parties still won in both states holding votes... The PDS scored their best election result ever, with 28% in Brandenburg.
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