The Financial Times set Saxony-Anhalt's AfD program next to Ukraine policy and the strained firewall. [1] A newspaper essay is not a coalition. Print the arithmetic. Do not appoint a minister-president.

The firewall is 39 seats in an 83-seat house, short of a majority. Essays that skip the denominator skip the story. Moscow's joy and Magdeburg's unfinished cabinet can share a page. They are not the same document. Leave a named cabinet to the edition that owns a named cabinet. Print 39 of 83. Print not a government.

Print the essay. Monday is not a Magdeburg swearing-in. Position 2 already named the shortfall. This page is the argument, not a second count. Print the essay as Monday's named firewall hold. A Financial Times column is still not a coalition agreement. Print 39 of 83 as still the named math. Print the essay as still not a cabinet. Recorded math holds; 39 of 83 holds.

Held math holds; 39 of 83 holds. Holding is the argument. Cabinets wait on columns.

Cabinets wait on columns; Monday's FT essay is the argument, not a second count. Thirty-nine of 83 stays the math. Not a coalition agreement.

The FT column puts the AfD program against Ukraine policy and an unfinished Magdeburg cabinet. Position 2 already counted 39 of 83; this page is the argument. Moscow's joy is not a coalition paper. A newspaper essay cannot seat a minister-president.
Moscow's joy is not a coalition paper. A newspaper essay cannot seat a minister-president. Position 2 already counted 39 of 83.

Moscow's joy is not a coalition paper. A newspaper essay cannot seat a minister-president. Position 2 already counted 39 of 83.

-- ANNA WEBER, Berlin