Germany's highest court has rejected an historic attempt to ban the country's far-right National Democratic Party,NPD.
The Federal Constitutional Court ruled that the NPD did not have the potential to overthrow democracy in Germany.
According to reports, the NPD has around 5,000 members but no seats in the Bundestag, the German parliament's lower house.
It is the second time an attempt to ban the NPD has failed. The case against the NPD was brought by the state governments represented in the upper house, the Bundesrat.
The federal government supported the action, but was not directly involved in the case.
The constitutional court in Karlsruhe ruled that the NPD was hostile to German democracy but the party "lacks sufficient weight to enable its actions to lead to success".
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