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Unrelated NPD is an unfortunate abbreviation. It's the nationalist party of Germany (Nazi party) abbreviation. Or was before rebranding to HEIMAT. Guess that doesn't matter in Canada, but still.
Fun fact, the New Democratic Party/Nouveau Parti Démocratique was founded 3 years before the Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands. 1961 vs 1965. So if anything, the nazis tried to steal our acronym. Boo the nazis.
Now that's a fun fact!
The German nazy party is the AfD . . .
We have more than one. Here are a few of them.
The AfD is the most successful at this moment:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_for_Germany
The NPD (renamed to Heimat - Homeland) is more niche:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Heimat
And we also have the republicans:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Republicans_(Germany)
There is apparently still a splinter "NPD" that was worried that Heimat was not going to be nazi enough...
Before the afd there used to be another. They are not the same by a long shot with NPD being (much) further to the right. "Geld für die Oma, statt Sinti und Roma" was on their election posters. This is insanely anti ziganist. They also breached the 5% threshold in select states.
It says NDP, not NPD.
It's NPD in french. It says it in both languages since this is a Canadian community.