How and who, Mr Samaras?
Opposition leader Antonis Samaras on Monday ruled out any chance of forming a coalition government with the ruling socialists. Instead, he reiterated previous calls for snap elections.
Middle-ground voters made the mistake of putting their confidence in George Papandreou at the last general elections, ignoring the fact that the current premier had not presented them with a clear blueprint for pulling the debt-hit nation out of the crisis. Nor had Papandreou bothered to announce before the elections who would take part in his administration.
Given the urgency of the current situation, Greek voters have good reason to be skeptical of similar attitudes. Samaras has to lay out how he plans to steer the country out the storm and to say who he intends to depend on. If Samaras were to win the next election, he would find himself with a situation that leaves no room for amateurs or amateurish solutions. He will need all the help he can get from capable technocrats who should already have been busy working on serious proposals and representing his party in the public discourse.
