-Caveat Lector- > Neo-Nazis to run in all 16 federal states in German election > > By Reuters > > > BERLIN +IBM Germany's neo-Nazi NPD party will campaign in all 16 of > the > country's federal states despite government efforts to ban it, > federal > returning officer Johann Hahlen told a news conference Thursday. > > Parties with platforms ranging from naturalism to karma will battle > for > the attention of Germany's 60 million voters after 24 groups won > approval > to compete in the general election. > > The Law and Order Party of maverick Hamburg Judge Ronald Schill will > be > on the ballot in 15 states, which along with the NPD and the > registration > of the Republikaners means German voters will have three far-right > parties from which to choose. > > A rainbow of other parties catering to animal rights campaigners, > communists, feminists, humanists, senior citizens and Bible lovers > have > also been cleared to enter the race. > > The sex and soft drugs Fun Party failed to make the grade after it > could > not find enough signatures of support. It claimed to have won three > percent of the youth vote in a recent regional election on a diverse > platform calling for more joy for women and German victory in the > Eurovision Song Contest. > > Still, the Violets, describing themselves as alternative > spiritualists, > will be able to promote their ecological programmes and new approach > to > healthcare. They are convinced that 10 million Germans believe in > karma > and reincarnation and could give the party 20 percent of the vote in > September. > > The German Centre Party, founded in 1870 by Catholics in the days > when > Otto von Bismarck led Germany and a force during the hyperinflation > days > of the Weimar Republic in the 1920s and 30s, are in too and seeking a > > long-awaited return to parliament. > > The final total of 24 parties on the ballot will be nine fewer than > the > number that competed four years ago. > > The six parties already represented in parliament - Chancellor > Gerhard > Schroeder's Social Democrats, the conservative Christian Democrats > and > their Christian Social Union allies, the Greens, the liberal Free > Democrats and the ex-communist PDS - have also been cleared. > www.haretzdaily.com/hasen/objects/pages/PrintArticleEn.jhtml?itemNo= 3352
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