Extreme sports

摘要

Among the keenest supporters of a "grand coalition" of the main centre-right and centre-left parties last November were parties at the extremes. On the right, this meant the neo-Nazi National Democrats (NPD); and on the left, the Left Party, comprising eastern Germany's former communists and a western ally, WASG. Both far left and far right, in various different guises, gained ground during the grand coalition of 1966-69, when the NPD almost got into the federal parliament.