The National Democratic Party of German is often referred to as a far right party that is often associated with Neo-Nazi beliefs. The NDP was formed in 1964; and is one of the view parties that the German government has not banned for its extremist patriotic views of how parliament should make decisions (1). The NDP has continued to hold the 5% minimum threshold for representation, allowing their views that people are unequal parts of society that are governed by natural law and socialism boarder lining on communism to be advocated for in policy.
The NDP identifies itself as Germanys only significant patriotic party; it believes it is preserving the German culture. However in recent year the NPD is appealing more to younger generation, through …show more content…
They attempt to recognize the working class as those whom have built Germany as a nation and have gained the support of many labor unions throughout the history of the party. With the NDP’s deeply rooted neo-Nazi approaches the party still views the workers as a necessity to promote welfare through assisted measure guaranteed to promote the well being of the population at large. When the question of labor unions wanting the workweek lowered from 40 to 35 hours requiring more overtime pay, the party would want to maintain the status quo of keeping overtime pay at 1.5 times a workers wages above 40 hours per week. The party does believe that the rich should not govern the decisions of the nation, and with rising the workweek overtime many employers would have to lay off worker to be able to afford wages. Laying off workers then creates a deeper economic gap between the lower and middle classes versus the wealthy upper classes and ultimately weakens the nation as a …show more content…
Due to the belief that NATO does not represent the views and interests of the European people, the NDP would not involve itself with relations with the USA. In the case of the USA invading Iran, NDP does not believe that Europa should commit troops to help out its NATO ally. Being a strong nationalist party they would neither go out of their way to censure the United States. Through a realist lens war is common, but all loyalty lies within the state and nation, not with IGO’s. With war being common, the main source of power comes from military and economic control, exhausting resources to an ally is not of interest to the NDP. Thus the NDP would neither censure nor assist the US due to it neither being beneficial nor
The NDP identifies itself as Germanys only significant patriotic party; it believes it is preserving the German culture. However in recent year the NPD is appealing more to younger generation, through …show more content…
They attempt to recognize the working class as those whom have built Germany as a nation and have gained the support of many labor unions throughout the history of the party. With the NDP’s deeply rooted neo-Nazi approaches the party still views the workers as a necessity to promote welfare through assisted measure guaranteed to promote the well being of the population at large. When the question of labor unions wanting the workweek lowered from 40 to 35 hours requiring more overtime pay, the party would want to maintain the status quo of keeping overtime pay at 1.5 times a workers wages above 40 hours per week. The party does believe that the rich should not govern the decisions of the nation, and with rising the workweek overtime many employers would have to lay off worker to be able to afford wages. Laying off workers then creates a deeper economic gap between the lower and middle classes versus the wealthy upper classes and ultimately weakens the nation as a …show more content…
Due to the belief that NATO does not represent the views and interests of the European people, the NDP would not involve itself with relations with the USA. In the case of the USA invading Iran, NDP does not believe that Europa should commit troops to help out its NATO ally. Being a strong nationalist party they would neither go out of their way to censure the United States. Through a realist lens war is common, but all loyalty lies within the state and nation, not with IGO’s. With war being common, the main source of power comes from military and economic control, exhausting resources to an ally is not of interest to the NDP. Thus the NDP would neither censure nor assist the US due to it neither being beneficial nor