BERLIN, Sept. 18 (UPI) -- A neo-Nazi party has embarrassed the German government by winning parliamentary seats in Chancellor Angela Merkel's home state.
The racist National Democratic Party, or NPD, took 6.4 percent of the ballot in the northeastern state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, where Merkel started her political career and to this day keeps her constituency.
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I just thought it was a bit of a hoot that this Neo-Nazi Party had the same initials as Canada's NDP-- (at least in French).
For our American readers, the NDP is Canada's socialist party.
Just mildly amusing, that's all.
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