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ND maintains 9 point lead over SYRIZA in opinion poll for Skai
Just over a week before snap general elections, center-right opposition New Democracy is nine percentage points ahead of leftist SYRIZA, according to the results of a new opinion poll carried out by Pulse for Skai.
SYRIZA trailing New Democracy by 8 percent, new poll finds
New Democracy was given an 8-point lead over ruling SYRIZA in a new public opinion poll conducted by Pulse for Skai TV and published on Thursday, with 35 percent of respondents saying they intend to vote for the center-right opposition against 27 percent supporting the incumbent leftists.
Poll projection shows ND leading 11 pct over SYRIZA
Ahead of Greece's general election on July 7, main opposition New Democracy maintains an 11 percent lead over ruling SYRIZA, according to a survey by Opinion Poll published on Thursday.
New poll puts ND lead at 9.8 pct versus SYRIZA
Center-right New Democracy held on to a 9.8 percent point lead over incumbent SYRIZA in a public opinion poll ahead of the general election on July 7.
ND got 34.4 percent of the vote, ahead of SYRIZA's 24.6 percent, according to the Marc poll conducted for Proto Thema newspaper over the weekend.
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Poll: ND lead over ruling SYRIZA still at 8.5 points
Center-right New Democracy held on to an 8.5 percent point lead over the incumbent leftists in a public opinion poll ahead of the general election on July 7.
ND got 34.5 percent of valid votes, ahead of SYRIZA's 26 percent, according to the Pulse poll conducted for Skai TV Thursday.
ND maintains wide lead over SYRIZA a month ahead of elections
Exactly a month before the national elections, a Metron Analysis poll published Friday places the main opposition New Democracy (ND) 7.7 percentage points ahead of ruling SYRIZA.
Varoufakis: ‘It’s time for adults in the room’
Yanis Varoufakis, leader of the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25), on Wednesday attacked Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras for suggesting during an interview with ERT state broadcaster Tuesday that his ex finance minister was ready to cooperate with his nemesis, ex German finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble.
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SYRIZA’s class warfare did not pay off
The reasons that led to ruling SYRIZA's big defeat in the European and local elections are numerous.
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ND leads SYRIZA by 9 percentage points in general election poll
Even as SYRIZA confronted a New Democracy landslide in 2 June local election run-offs, a poll on voter intention in the 7 July general election had the ruling party trailing ND by nine percentage points, nearly the identical spread between the two top parties as in the 26 May European Parliament election.
Varoufakis attributes SYRIZA losses to 'inconsistencies of last 4 years'
Commenting on the losses suffered by leftist SYRIZA in Sunday's local and regional authority runoffs, former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis attributed it to "inconsistencies" in its stances.
"SYRIZA never had deep roots in local government. But it chiefly paid for the inconsistencies of the past four years," Varoufakis told Skai.