Ticking bombs

At some point in the their tenure, all Greek prime ministers have to prove that they have the skills of a political bomb-disposal expert. They are handed a ticking bomb or two and are expect to neutralize it. Sometimes they succeed, sometimes they are injured by the shrapnel and sometimes they manage to save themselves but not the people.

The way things stand right now, and if public opinion polls are confirmed, main opposition leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis may be handed one, two, maybe three ticking bombs that will not take too long to explode. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will carefully weigh when to hold elections, evaluating whether and when those bombs may go off.

One such issue in the coming months will be the banks. The unfavorable international economic climate and investor fatigue with the Greek story have created a negative environment. Disastrous scenarios like...