Far right wins seats in German state assembly
A far-right party compared to the early Nazis by the German government has won seats in a regional parliament, helped by a weak economy and anger with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s ruling coalition. Preliminary results showed the National Democratic Party (NPD), which advocates closing German borders to immigrants, won 7.2 percent of the vote in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, a northeastern state on the Baltic Sea which borders Poland. Full Story