Far-right National Democratic Party (NPD) supporters protest against a refugee asylum in the Hellersdorf district of Berlin, in this August 24, 2013 file picture. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch/Files
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's 16 states launched a battle on Tuesday to ban the far-right National Democratic Party (NPD) after the federal government failed spectacularly a decade ago to outlaw a party its critics say shows an affinity for Hitler's Nazis.
Fearing another court defeat, Chancellor Angela Merkel's government opted not to formally back the petition to the Constitutional Court to ban the NPD, which the domestic intelligence service has called "racist, anti-Semitic and revisionist".
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