Politics

AfD Still Has No Cabinet

TL;DR

Berlin Spectator counted 43.8 percent and 39 of 83 seats, short of a majority; Friday has no AfD cabinet and no Saturday street.

MSM Perspective

Berlin Spectator filed a result short of a majority. Friday does not seat a ministry.

X Perspective

Feeds treat a state win as a federal government.

AfD took 43.8 percent and 39 of 83 seats in Saxony-Anhalt, short of an absolute majority, in Berlin Spectator's file. [1] This paper printed the count on the 7th. Friday has no AfD ministry in fetched copy. A state election is not a federal government. Saturday can own a street. Friday cannot. Print no cabinet. Do not print a chancellery. Leave a named coalition to the edition that owns a coalition.

No Friday coalition paper is in Magdeburg or Berlin copy, so AfD still has no cabinet.
A state result is still not a federal cabinet. Friday recap that treats Saxony-Anhalt as the chancellery is a feed, not Magdeburg.
No Friday ministry list is in Berlin copy, so no cabinet remains the AfD word.
The cabinet stays off the page until an edition that owns one.

Firewall debates now center on the Bundesrat, where state votes complicate federal math. Magdeburg's delegation carries the argument to Berlin. Friday's count travels with it.

Traveling counts travel to Berlin; Friday's travels. Bundesrat math complicates. Magdeburg still has no cabinet.

Firewall debates now center on the Bundesrat. Magdeburg's delegation carries the argument to Berlin. Friday still has no cabinet.

Saxony-Anhalt still left AfD short of an absolute majority and short of a cabinet. Friday fetched no ministry list from Magdeburg or Berlin. Bundesrat math may travel with the delegation; it does not seat a chancellor. This desk refuses a chancellery on Friday paper.
Friday names no chancellor. Friday still has no cabinet. Magdeburg's delegation carries the argument to Berlin.

Friday names no chancellor. Friday still has no cabinet. Magdeburg's delegation carries the argument to Berlin.

-- HENDRIK VAN DER BERG, Brussels

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