The Conversation asked why the AfD won in Saxony-Anhalt and what happens next. [1] This paper already printed a mandate Magdeburg has not granted. An explainer is not a cabinet. Thirty-nine seats are not 42. Mainstream parties still refusing talks is not a coalition. Print the next-step question. Do not appoint a minister-president.

A later street belongs to a later edition. Leave a named Magdeburg deal to the edition that owns a named deal. Tuesday is day two of a count, not a government.

Print the firewall. Tuesday is not a Magdeburg ministry. High turnout and a CDU collapse are the Conversation's why, not a coalition. Print no cabinet as the named Tuesday hold. Thirty-nine seats still do not write a ministry.

Day-two analysis asks why, not what-next; the Conversation's piece does exactly that. High turnout plus CDU collapse equals protest arithmetic. Tuesday reads the explainer, not the cabinet list.

Why explained; what-next unanswered. Tuesday answers the first. Cabinets answer the second — later.

Later cabinets answer later; Tuesday answers why. Protest arithmetic isn't a coalition. Magdeburg has no ministry list.

Tuesday answers why, not what next. Protest arithmetic isn't a coalition. Magdeburg has no ministry list.

Saxony-Anhalt still has 39 seats and no partners. The Conversation asked why and what next; only why has an answer. Mainstream refusal is not coalition arithmetic. Magdeburg has not written any government from that night.
Mainstream refusal is not coalition arithmetic. Only why has an answer. Magdeburg has not written any ministry list.

Mainstream refusal is not coalition arithmetic. Only why has an answer. Magdeburg has not written any ministry list.

-- ANNA WEBER, Berlin