BERLIN (Reuters) - The successor to East Germany's Communist Party has made a late surge two weeks before a national election after its leader stood up in parliament to lash the front-running conservatives for breaking a historic taboo on cooperating with the far right.
Many legislators were numb after the conservatives passed a non-binding motion on restricting immigration on January 29 with the votes of the nationalist, anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD), unprecedented in a nation still painfully aware of its Nazi past. But Heidi Reichinnek was in her element.
