The results from the regional elections in eastern Germany are in, and the success of the neo-Nazi NPD in Saxony will be the headlines of tomorrow’s papers. I will wait to see how this plays out in the German and American press (if it is even notice in the US). The SPD managed to hang on in Brandenburg, but Dagmar “Daggi” Enkelmann still managed to get 28% of the votes for the PDS.
In fact, the success of the PDS in both Brandenburg and Saxony is the real story, which will be overshadowed by the hysteria over the NPD. It is likely that the SPD will form a coalition with the PDS in Brandenburg. Daggi and her comrades will be a permanent fixture in the political scene in Germany, and the PDS has become more than a party of ‘protest votes”. More on the implications of the election results to follow.
