New Democracy retains lead before election

As Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis make their last campaign push ahead of Sunday's snap election, a new opinion poll by Pulse for Skai shows ND holding a firm 8-percentage point lead over leftist SYRIZA. 

The poll, conducted on a sample of 1,206 voters on June 2 and 3, found that 36 percent plan to vote for ND and 28 percent for SYRIZA with 7 percent backing center-left Movement for Change (KINAL), 5 percent the Communist Party, 4 percent neo-Nazi Golden Dawn, 3 percent supporting the MeRA25 party of former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis, and another 3 percent the nationalist, pro-Russian Greek Solution.

Based on Pulse's survey, ND would get an absolute majority with 155 MPs, assuming all those parties enter Parliament, and 159 MPs if one of the smaller parties fails to enter the House. 

The poll also found that the...

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