SYRIZA collapsing in latest poll

Opposition ND leads by 15 points

According to survey conducted by the University of Macedonia, the difference between the ruling SYRIZA party and conservative New Democracy (ND), stands at an unprecedented 15 percentage points. The new poll, which was aired on Skai TV on Monday and conducted on November 3 and 4, showed that 62% of those polled believed ND would win if elections were held, with ND receiving 30% against SYRIZA’s 15% on the question of electoral influence. According to the findings, nearly 10% of those who had voted SYRIZA in the previous elections had switched over to ND, with 87% of those asked said that things were going in the wrong direction, compared to only 7.5% who thought otherwise. 89% said they were disappointed with the government’s performance, with 8 out of 10 SYRIZA voters falling under this category. The polls sampled 1,080 people, with only 13,5% of those identifying as SYRIZA supporters saying they were pleased with the government, while nearly 2 in 3 voters who chose SYRIZA in the September 2015 national elections. Extreme right party Golden Dawn (GD) received 7%, coming in third, followed by the Communist party (KKE) with 5.5%, the Democratic Alignment (4.5%) and the Union Centrists and former SYRIZA MP and Parliament President Zoe Konstantopoulou’s party “Freedom Sailing” both reaching the 3% threshold necessary to enter parliament. On the question of who is most suitable to be Prime Minister, ND leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis received 37%, compared to Tsipras’s 20.5%.