Friday’s latest opinion poll, 72 hours before voting precincts open on Sunday, shows leftist SYRIZA with 24.5 percent of respondents’ vote to 24 percent for conservative New Democracy party.
As in other recent opinion polls, ultra-nationalist Golden Dawn appears “glued” to third place, while three smaller parties parliament ambitious appear not making the 3-percent threshold of the general voted needed to elect MPs.
The opinion poll was conducted by Metron Analysis and presented by the TV station Ant1
Specifically, after the two front-runners GD picks up 5.4, KKE 4.7, PASOK-DIMAR 4.6, Potami 4.5 percent. Parties that polled under 3 percent were Popular Unity 2.6 percent; Union of Centrists 2.4 and the Independent Greeks 2.3 percent.
The all-important undecided vote was tallied at 9.7 percent.
Later in the evening, another two polls were released, showing a 2.5 percentage point lead by SYRIZA over ND.
The polls were conducted by GPO and the University of Macedonia and commissioned by the television stations Mega and SKAI respectively.
According to the GPO survey, SYRIZA garnered 28.5 percent to ND’s 26 pct, followed by Golden Dawn 6.1, PASOK 6, KKE 5.7, Potami 4.8, Popular Unity (PU) 3.9 and AN.EL 3 percent.
In the university’s poll, SYRIZA picked up 31 percent, ND 28.5, Golden Dawn 6.5, Potami 4.5, KKE 5, PASOK-DIMAR 5, PU 3, the Union of Centrists 3 percent.