The fact that Merkel won't make a coalition with either party is the base of your rebuttal?

My point was that the Left has been in Bundestag for 12 years and the press doesn't bat an eye, despite being a successor of  a party that brought 40 years of darkness to East Germany. Is just good old left. 

Yet, when an eurosceptic, anti-open border party makes it to the parliament we are dealing with "far right" (quote from the article).