Schily Blames Constitution Protectors for NPD Success

German Interior Minister Otto Schily has laid the blame for the projected success of the far-right National Democratic Party (NPD) in Saxony's regional elections at the door of the Federal Constitutional Court. The fact that a party with a platform that is clearly anti-foreigner and anti-Semitic could get a seat in parliament was the result of a problematic decision by the court, Schily told the Financial Times Deutschland. Last year, the court stopped a government procedure to ban the NPD because it emerged that informants had been placed within the party in order to gather evidence to support the ban. The NDP is expected to win just under 10 percent of the vote in Saxony, eastern Germany in elections this Sunday.