The New Democracy party was shown to be easing ahead with a lead of 0,6 % over the main opposition party SYRIZA in the upcoming European elections, in the opinion poll conducted by MRB for STAR TV channel.

According to the poll, New Democracy received 21.9% of respondents’ preferences, SYRIZA 21.3 %, Potami 8.2%, Golden Dawn 6.9%, Communist Party of Greece (KKE) 6%, Elia 5.1%, Independent Greeks 4.2%, Democratic Left (DIMAR) 2.8% and other parties 5%.

New Democracy seems to lead also the race as far as the national elections is concerned.

Specifically, on the question posed in the MRB’s opinion poll regarding the vote intention for the national elections New Democracy received 24.4% of the respondents’ preferences and SYRIZA 23.2%, River follows at 7.7%, Golden Dawn at 6.7%, Communist Party of Greece (KKE) at 5.0%, Elia at 4.6%, Independent Greeks at 4.6%, Democratic Left (DIMAR) at 2.9%, whereas undecided voters reached 16.9%.

According to the poll, 43.7% of the respondents believe that Antonis Samaras is the best suited prime minister and 29% chose Alexis Tsipras, whereas 26.4% of the respondents answered “no one”.

An opinion poll carried out by “e-voice” published by the newspaper “Paraskinio” gave New Democracy a 0.8 % lead over SYRIZA, while Potami ranked again third.

The opinion poll gave the parties the following percentages: New Democracy 22%, SYRIZA 21.2%, Potami 8.1%, Golden Dawn 6.7%, KKE 5.9%, Elia 5.6%, Independent Greeks 3.3% and DIMAR 1.5%. The rest of the parties participating in the election together accounted for 7%, abstention was at 4.5% and undecided voters were at 14.2%.

The “e-voice” poll also gave a strong lead to current prime minister Antonis Samaras compared to other political leaders in terms of his ability to handle major issues affecting the country, with 30.4% choosing Samaras and 15.5% Alexis Tsipras.

Different results published by Palmos Analysis

A strong lead to SYRIZA over New Democracy gave the opinion polls carried out by Palmos Analysis for  tvxs.gr of Stelios Kouloglou who run in European elections with SYRIZA.

The opinion poll shows that the Baltakos case reinforced the intention vote in favor of SYRIZA

Specifically, Palmos Analysis’s poll gave the following percentages on vote intention:

For European elections

– SYRIZA 21.5%
– New Democracy 18.1%
– Golden Dawn 7.3%
– River 6.9%
– ΚΚΕ 3.4%
– Elia 2.5%
– Independent Greeks 2.2%
– DIMAR 1.4%
– LAOS 1.7%
– Greek Green ecologist  0.7%
– Other parties 5.6%
– Blank or Invalid 1.6%
– Not voting  3.8%
– Do not know/No opinion 7%
– Undecided 16.2%.

For national elections

– SYRIZA 26.5%
– New Democracy 21.4%
– Golden Dawn 7.2%
– River 5.2%
– ΚΚΕ 3.9%
– PASOK 2.2%
– Independent Greeks 3%
– DIMAR 1.1%
– Greek Green ecologists 0.5%
– LAOS 1.9%
– Other parties 4.7%
– Blank or Invalid 1.2%
– Not voting 3.2%
– Do not know/No opinion 5%
– Undecided 12.8%