New 'walls' now divide Germany: President

Berlin

GERMANY'S Sept 24 national election has shown the country is divided by new, less visible "walls", President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on Tuesday, the anniversary of German reunification.

Speaking 27 years after East and West Germany were reunited following the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall, Steinmeier said the election, which saw the far-right enter Parliament, had exposed "large and small cracks" in society and he called on democratic lawmakers to work together to fight any return to nationalism.