Politics

AfD Still Has No Cabinet

TL;DR

Berlin Spectator counted 43.8 percent and 39 of 83 seats, short of a majority; Saturday's street is not a cabinet.

MSM Perspective

Al Jazeera filed the rallies. Berlin Spectator filed a result short of a majority. Saturday does not seat a ministry.

X Perspective

Feeds treat a state win as a federal government, or a street as a ministry.

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 and today the street, not a cabinet. Saturday has no AfD ministry in fetched copy. A state election is not a federal government. Street copy is not a coalition. Print no cabinet. Do not print a chancellery. Leave a named coalition to the edition that owns a coalition.

No Saturday coalition paper is in Magdeburg or Berlin copy, so AfD still has no cabinet and the street is not a ministry.
A state result is still not a federal cabinet. Saturday recap that treats Saxony-Anhalt as the chancellery is a feed, not Magdeburg.
No Saturday ministry list is in Berlin copy, so no cabinet remains the AfD word.
Saturday's wires carry no cabinet; the desk leaves the line where it found it.

Weekend wires carry no ministries; coalition talks rest on Saturdays. Rest is the update. Magdeburg's count keeps.

Magdeburg's count keeps; Saturday named no ministry list. Saxony-Anhalt is not the chancellery. Coalition talks rest.

No Saturday ministry list is in Berlin copy. Magdeburg is not the chancellery. Coalition talks rest.

Saxony-Anhalt's September 7 result still sits short of a majority at 43.8 percent and 39 seats. That is Landtag arithmetic, not a ministry roster. Street copy from Saturday is not a cabinet. Berlin has named no coalition on this clock.
39 seats is not a ministry. Coalition talks rest. Saxony-Anhalt's September 7 result still sits short of a majority.

39 seats is not a ministry. Coalition talks rest. Saturday's AfD file is 39 seats, not a ministry.

-- HENDRIK VAN DER BERG, Brussels

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