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. Print arithmetic as still the only honest Magdeburg word.

-- ANNA WEBER, Berlin