Fair enough, but I was sure that it was more. I know for a fact that they're in Saxony too.
Yes, they are. I checked a list on wikipedia before I posted, just to make sure that I didn't forget a state and overlooked Saxony because the election was in 2009. If you look an the numbers though, the NPD (neo nazi party) lost almost half of their votes from 2004, almost missing the 5% minimum requirement for joining a state or the national parliament. So they might be out of that parliament next time...
Yeah, MeckPomm is the Bundesland where I live, and the attitudes of their supporters are disgusting. Nice to see you care about your fellow countrymen though. NPD supporters are entitled to them, but NPD's stances aren't the sort of ideologies I like.
That state has a lot of economical problems, that's why the NPD is strong there.
6% of the votes is misleading; only 52% of the MeckPomm population voted in the 2011 elections. They have 6% of that 52%. Many of the apathetic voters who don't take an actual interest in politics blindly agree with what the NPD has to say.
Yep, already counted that in. 1.7 mio people, I guessed that the voters' rate was at about 60% and that would be around 1 million voters, 60k votes being 6% of that.
But of course you are right, I guess every country has a certain potential for extreme political views, leftwing or rightwing. That doesn't always manifest in voting behaviour. Racism/nationalism certainly is an issue in every part of Germany to a certain degree. But I guess there is no country on this planet without such problems.
So does that mean that their votes and opinions are worth less than the votes of others?
Well, not in a moral way. But fact is, that decisions in Germany are made elsewhere, not in underdeveloped rural areas with high unemployment. People there are frustrated. Those people often vote for extremist parties, you'll find the same views in similiar areas in the UK, the USA and elsewhere.
You know I have no problem with Mecklenburg Vorpommern (MW), but fact is, we have several cities in Germany with a higher GDP than the whole state of MV, they are on last place on GDP per person in Germany, in total they are only beating the state of Bremen, which is a city and the Saarland which has about 1 mio inhabitants. In total, MV generates 34 out of Germany's 2423 billion EUR GDP.
Your post sounded like neo nazis have a voice in Germans parliaments and are therefor a part in decision making. That is simply not true. Neo nazis in Germany represent a small fracture of a uneducated, mostly unemployed and frustrated minority and have nothing to say in this country. The economical and political powers are in the western and southern parts of Germany, and neo nazi parties usually don't even get 1% of the votes there or don't even exist (aside from local organisations).
Anyway, the development in Greece is understandable but problematic. We'll have to see, if a working parliament is possible with those results. If not, a re-election icertainly is an option.
but I'd say that the general "what now", might be translated into pretty much the same current situation in the first few months. Hollande has already stated the intention to travel immediately to Berlin and that might indicate that no major shock or reform concerning French relations with the Eurozone might occur in the very near term, well, at least that's my educated guess... 
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