BERLIN — Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Cabinet decided Wednesday not to attempt a ban of the country’s biggest far-right party but said it would support a bid brought by the country’s states — a resolution slammed by Germany’s main Jewish group as the wrong signal to neo-Nazis.
Interior Minister Hans- Peter Friedrich said the government will help the 16 states with their effort to ban the National Democratic Party.
Opponents of a ban note that membership has dropped, and the party is marginalized at a national level.