Main opposition party, left-wing SYRIZa leads in three public opinion polls published on Tuesday, one day before the first round of voting for Greece’s new President. However, the gap to PM Samaras’ Nea Dimokratia is not extraordinary big. The difference is between 2.8% to 4.9%. In all polls centre-left wing Democratic Left has no chances to enter the Parliament in elections, while nationalist Indepentent Greeks may risk not to pass the 3% threshold as well. What is interesting is that 6 to 10 respondents say that they want next President to be elected by the current Parliament.
GPO poll conducted for MEGA TV
SYRIZA 28%
ND 23.1%
KKE 5.5%
PASOK 5.1%
TO POTAMI 5.1%
GOLDEN DAWN 5%
Indepentent Greeks 2.7%
LAOS 1.3% ANTARSYA 1.3% OTHER 5.9% UNDECIDED 15.3% WHITE 1.7%
“Most suitable for Prime Mininster”
SAMARAS 44.8% TSIPRAS 35.4% NOBODY 17%
Poll was conducted 11-13 + 15 Dec 2014.
MRB poll conducted for MEGA TV
SYRIZA 24.2%
ND 21%
TO POTAMI 5.7%
PASOK 5.5%
KKE 5%
GOLDEN DAWN 4.5%
Indepentent Greeks 2.8%
ANTARSYA 1.8%
DEMLEFT 1.5%
OTHER 6.6% UNDECIDED 21.4%
“Most suitable for Prime Mininster”
SAMARAS 35.9% TSIPRAS 28.8% NOBODY 33.8%
61.6% appears to be negative towards snap polls and 36.3% positive.
Poll was conducted 10-13 Dec 2014
INTERVIEW Poll conducted for Vergina TV
SYRIZA 27.9%
ND 25.2%
PASOK 5.1%
KKE 5%
GOLDEN DAWN 4.8%
TO POTAMI 4.2%
Indepentent Greeks 1.8%
DEMLEFT 0.9%
“Most suitable for Prime Mininster”
SAMARAS 42% TSIPRAS 29%
58% want the current Parliament to elect the President, 32% want snap polls.
sources: in.gr, protothema,
Conclusion
Certainly such polls results will put some lawmakers under pressure for the first voting for PResident tomorrow, Wednesday.
However, in the prespective of eanrly elections, should the Parliament fail to elect the President, the political scene may change if former PM George Papandreou decides to form his own party.
A crucial question is: with whom could SYRIZA form a coalition government shout it win the elections -unless it can govern the country alone…
