Isn’t it unfair?

I borrowed the title from the ending of all the short ads being posted by opposition SYRIZA as part of its online election campaign. The aim of the leftists with this campaign is to draw attention to all the factors (like unemployment and the high cost of renting a house) hobbling the country's young people and preventing them from taking an interest in politics and the electoral process. The responsibility for this, SYRIZA suggests, lies squarely with the ruling conservatives.

Has the government's recent legislative initiative to stop a neo-Nazi from running in the elections caused "fresh friction with the opposition" - as we're wont to say - which is preparing its own proposal on the same issue? If so, why? Can a person who has been convicted to a long prison sentence for being part of a criminal organization assume the role of political leader? Can the party he...