Seven sections updated, the rest holds since morning

At 6:30 our lead on Saxony-Anhalt had only one solid data point: the calendar. Polls open until 18:00, first projection right after. In the afternoon came the day’s first real number, that of the Landeswahlleitung: by 14:00 turnout stood at 54.4% of eligible voters, against 27.1% at the same hour in 2021. This is why this edition’s lead is the same story with different content, not a repetition. The caveat we keep repeating still applies: an intermediate turnout figure measures pace, not outcome, and carries no information on how the votes are distributed.

Seven sections are updated in this edition. Europe, with the turnout figure. News, with the airport closures in Jakarta: 373 flights affected at 10:35 according to Indonesia’s Directorate General of Civil Aviation — the only source available, as stated in the piece. Health, where this morning we reported on the WHO’s emergency guidance on Ervebo and now report the figures: 6,342 confirmed cases of Bundibugyo according to the ECDC update of September 3. Economy and Markets, with today’s OPEC+ meeting, the first since the completion of the unwinding of voluntary cuts. Sport, which moves from qualifying at Monza to the EuroVolley final in Istanbul and the Andalusian stage of the Vuelta. World and Geopolitics, with the Lebanese Health Ministry’s toll on the strikes in the Nabatieh district: four dead, twenty wounded, a count declared provisional. Italy, with the official notices from Trenitalia and RFI on the September 7-8 rail strike — a fact not contained in the morning edition.

For Cinema & Entertainment, Culture and Tech & AI, what was published at 6:30 still holds: the pieces are at their address and remain readable. On Tech & AI, an afternoon article was dropped during production, so the section today carries only one piece, this morning’s. On World News too, a piece was dropped — the Iranian claim of an attack on a US naval vessel, denied by Centcom — and the section was covered with Lebanon.

A note on method regarding the Indonesian piece: the source is the authority that materially orders the closures, hence primary, but it remains a single voice. The figures are those it communicated, and readers should be aware of this.

The next edition comes out tomorrow morning at 6:30. In Saxony-Anhalt polls close at 18:00: the first projection will arrive this evening, and you will find it there.