October 09, 1998 • Page Image 51
…the 5 percent barrier needed to gain a seat in the Bundestag, with 5.3 per- cent, up from 4.4 percent four years c ago. Significant, too, is that the three far-right parties did poorly, although slightly better than four years ago. In the former East German State of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern — where ultra-nationalist skinheads held a pre- election march last week — extremists split about 5 percent of the vote, mak- ing it impossible for any of th...…

















































