Uncertain times and the actions of political leaders

Greek domestic politics are currently like quicksand that threatens everyone, and a lot will be decided in the coming weeks by how party leaders manage political developments. For the first time in recent years, there is growing uncertainty across the ideological spectrum.

Within each party, shots - personal and political - are being fired from and in many directions. In the government camp, alongside the dissatisfaction recorded by voters in the European Parliament election, there are also internal frictions that are expressed at the highest level by the two former presidents of New Democracy who also served as prime ministers for seven and a half years. It remains to be seen whether Kostas Karamanlis will switch from distancing himself from political developments to confrontation, or if Antonis Samaras will differentiate himself even more from the government by...