Interior Minister Yiannis Michelakis made a formal complaint to the president of the polling and marketing companies association about the great deviation between exit poll results and the final voting count during Sunday’s local government elections.

In a letter, Michelakis said “this happens in Greece for the first time” and resulted in “creating entirely unsubstantiated impressions and in confusing public opinion during the last phase of the voting process,”.

He called on the relevant supervisory and auditing agencies of the association, following guidelines set out in the association’s code of ethics and that of the relevant international organisation.