Government faces arduous second-half term

Assuming we are in a normal political cycle, the Government is now roughly halfway through its term of office and attention will soon focus on an election that is scheduled to take place in around two-and-a-half years.

The current administration can take nothing for granted.

Although the Government it replaced had taken the country into effective bankruptcy, the electorate has a short memory and inevitably, what opposition parties can promise over the next couple of years could do serious damage to the re-election chances of the incumbents.