German Elections: Fringe parties gain as voters shun Merkel

                                         

Published on Sep 11, 2013

Germany's campaign season is in full swing two weeks from national parliamentary elections and politicians are out and about scrounging votes. The political field is dominated by the major groups, like the leftist Social Democrats and Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union. But as Peter Oliver reports, candidates for some smaller parties are making inroads in rural areas as they look to force their way onto the national stage.