BERLIN (Reuters) - Fears that apathy could boost the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) in an election on Sunday have driven Chancellor Angela Merkel and her main rival to urge their backers to go out and vote.
With many voters viewing a fourth term for Merkel as almost inevitable and put off by a turgid campaign - occasionally punctured by heckling and tomato hurling in protest at Merkel's refugee policy - pollsters say turnout may be low.
A GMS poll on Thursday said 34 percent were not planning to vote or were undecided, higher than the 29 percent who did not cast ballots in the last election in 2013.
"My request to everyone is that they vote, and vote for those parties that adhere 100 percent to our constitution," Merkel told MDR radio on Thursday, pointing to the AfD.
The party, running at between nine and 12 percent in opinion polls, has been likened by Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel and some commentators to Hitler's Nazis. ...
If you don't want the West and its cultures to be demographically buried under Muslims and the rest of the third world--you are "Hitler's Nazis"! (Were there other kinds of Nazis?)
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