2013 Elections in Germany

[Linus Van Pelt]

Regarding the above discussion about the acceptability of coalitions with Die Linke - I would guess that it will be an important change when it is no longer led by a generation who were politically active adults in the GDR.

[Linus Van Pelt]

Any idea why AfD did comparatively poorly in Saxony-Anhalt, especially the northern parts?

People commuting to Wolfsburg to work with Volkswagen realising that their jobs rely on the Euro.
Also, right next to the northern tip of Saxony-Anhalt is the Gorleben proposed nuclear waste dump. The Lower Saxon side, the Wendland, is a traditional green stronghold, Hamburg & Berlin hippie-land, and is culturally influencing the Saxony-Anhalt.

Asides, the more I look at the AfD map, the more I think that they have been able to especially take over small-scale tourism operators from the FDP. If you are making your living from summer tourism along the Baltic Sea coast, you might be anything but unhappy about Greece and other Mediterranean countries possibly leaving the Eurozone. In Saxony-Anhalt, OTOH, summer tourism hardly plays a role.

Wouldn't a devalued drachma (or lira or peseta, not that that's likely) make its country cheaper for Germans?