A day after Saxony-Anhalt counted 43.8 percent and 39 of 83 seats for the AfD, Ulrich Siegmund claimed a clear mandate to govern. [1] This paper printed a historic share that was not a cabinet. Tuesday the share has not grown. The mandate has not been written.

The Conversation asked why the AfD won and what happens next: CDU collapse, high turnout, no majority, mainstream parties still refusing talks. [1] A mandate requires partners or 42 seats. Thirty-nine is neither.

Print the claim. Print the missing majority. Do not appoint a minister-president. Tuesday is day two of a count, not a cabinet. A firewall that still holds is not a coalition. Leave a named Magdeburg deal to the edition that owns a named deal. Wednesday does not grant what 39 seats did not write. A later street belongs to a later edition.

Print no cabinet. Tuesday is not a Magdeburg ministry.

Counted days accumulate; Tuesday's is day two. Accumulation continues. Cabinets wait on deals.

Waiting deals wait; Tuesday's wait. Day two of the count. Thirty-nine seats write no ministry.

Tuesday is day two of the count. Thirty-nine seats write no ministry. Wednesday does not grant what Magdeburg did not write.

Saxony-Anhalt's 39 seats are a Landtag fact, not a chancellery. Day two still has no ministry list. The firewall is still a slogan, not a cabinet.

The firewall is still a slogan. Magdeburg named no ministry on Tuesday. A Landtag count is not a federal cabinet.

The firewall is still a slogan. Magdeburg named no ministry on Tuesday. Tuesday's Magdeburg file has no cabinet.

-- HENDRIK VAN DER BERG, Brussels