By the way, regarding where you live. I checked some figures for Thuringia and Jena. I wanted to see if there was any comparison for these prior far-right successes in other East German states; one of which lasting two terms:

• 12.9% for the DVU in Saxony-Anhalt in 1998 (fortunately they could be eliminated completely, not even running in elections next time, then came back to only 3.0% in 2006);
  
• 7.3% for the NPD in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in 2006;
  
• 5.3% for the DVU in Brandenburg in 1999, growing to 6.1% in 2004;
  
• 9.2% for the NPD in Saxony in 2004.

(You see that for two of these and Thuringia, a test will come this year (in August resp. September). Polls show both the Brandenburg and Saxony extemists near the 5% limit, but we'll never now until election night.)

Well, in regional elections in Thuringia, the highest score was a combined 4.1% (3.1% DVU + 0.8% Republikaner + 0.2% NPD) in 1999; followed by a combined 3.6% (Rep 2%+ NPD 1.6%) last time in 2004. So pretty resistant against the far-right so far, better than some West German states.

Now for some results in Jena.

• In the present EP elections, in which the Linke beat the CDU for first place (woohoo!!!) and even Greens were just shy of 15% and Pirates 1.8%; the Republikaner got 1.6% and the DVU 0.5%.
  
• In this year's municipal elections, the ratios of the major parties are slightly different (SPD is biggest), while the far right did not even run.
  
• In the 2005 federal elections, 'won' clearly by the SPD, a combined 2.9% voted far-right (NPD: 2.4%, Rep: 0.5%).
  
• In the 2004 regional elections, 2.8% (Rep: 1.5%, NPD: 1.3%). Even in 1999, DVU scored least just in Jena (total far-right vote 2.0+0.9+0.3 = 3.2%).

So I envy you -- you live in a good place! Pretty strongly on the left and never going far-right.

But, the FDP also got 9.2% in the EP and 11.0% in the local elections. In the last two regional elections, the FDP got the most votes just in Jena.

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