The true message from the ballot box

The entry into Parliament of three far-right parties and the radical leftist Course of Freedom is, without doubt, the most alarming message to emerge from Sunday's general election. It should not, however, sully the deeper message from the ballot box, which, dare I say, is not negative. Confirming its decision on May 21, the electorate demonstrated that after a decade of seesawing between pragmatism and utopia, it is ready to get back to reality.

To explain myself, I do not believe that any of the parties that only just managed to cross the 3% threshold for entry into Parliament will have any real impact on political developments in the long term. If they decide to form attack squads similar to Golden Dawn's, I am certain that the Spartiates (Spartans) will come up against the law. The political system is much more mature today than it was in 2012 and 2015, and more able to...