One of the most challenging issues with which Germany has to cope nowadays is the resurgence of the Nazi party that has grown in popularity over the last decade even by entering some regional parliaments (in Saxony and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern). Well-known due to its stance against immigration, NPD (National-Democratic Party) has recently recorded a spot for the upcoming elections which has been censored by a local radio broadcast in Hesse, as it represented "incitement" to violence and hate. This unexpected decision has sparked sharp political debate, because parties have the right to air their spots in the run-up to elections, according to the regional laws. Moreover the party itself is entirely responsible for the content of each spot: that's why nobody has really understood the reason for not allowing NPD to campaign in the way it preferred.

The right wing extremist party appealed to the Frankfurt court which denied the claim, according to the broadcaster general director, who said: " The cause of freedom of expression and the parties' freedom to campaign cannot lead to public broadcasters being forced to spread campaign messages that contain racist or inhuman ideology ". Though this assessment seems to be an excuse to put the party into legal question again, in a real free society broadcasters can not be effectively obliged to do what contradicts their moral convincement.

Competition could prompt NPD to find another broadcasting company favorably disposed to air its spot, however it can be blameworthy. Xenophobia and racially motivated attacks against immigrants- the latest of which occurred in November-: those are the main characteristics of this party which has lost votes in 2004 Saxony elections, but it is still upbeat and it now attempts to enter Bundestag, the Lower House of German Parliament, in 2009 general elections. SPD, the Social Democrat Party, has pledged for an NPD ban since August, though the German Constitutional Court has already thrown out the case in 2004.

Chancellor Angela Merkel has been more skeptical about this possibility by saying that this anti-democratic way of thinking cannot be banned by law. In the meanwhile NPD is convincing more people to join and vote for it: the recipe is setting up protests against the cutbacks of many social programmes. A good way to steal votes from the powerful ex-communist party, Die Linke, which has been gaining more and more points in the recent polls.