The challenges ahead

The easy bit is over for newly elected Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis - at least as regards beating SYRIZA and forming a majority New Democracy government. Up until a couple of months ago, these were not things that could be taken for granted, regardless of what some people now claim.

What is odd is that most of the whingeing came from ND supporters who had made up their minds not too long ago that SYRIZA would never be gotten rid of and that its leader Alexis Tsipras would work some sort of magic to stop ND forming a majority government; and so they were content with the prospect of ND forming a coalition.

Now, with victory in the bag, the hard part lies ahead. To begin with, there's the new electoral law hanging like the sword of Damocles over the political system, threatening its stability. New Democracy and Movement for Change (KINAL) have already pledged to...