The electoral system no one is talking about

Someone once said that "if you don't know where you're going, you'll end up someplace else." That's where SYRIZA finds itself right now, mired between governments of winners, losers, "special purpose" and anything else that may crop up by July. The fact is that leftist leader Alexis Tsipras prefers the first option - and says so at every opportunity - but also appears ready to settle for the others too. He did, after all, say as much at the press conference he gave earlier this week, where he stated that "I'm not flatly rejecting the possibility that such a discussion may not take place the day after the election, but a special purpose government is not what I am aiming for. What I am aiming for is a four-year, stable, enduring government that will include all these special purposes."

He did not say that he would form a government of "desperados," as the government spokesman...