SYRIZA in free fall, latest poll shows

ND consolidates double digit lead

The findings of the latest poll aired late Monday night on SKAI TV reveals that ruling SYRIZA party is facing an unprecedented collapse in its support, as it recorded a 12.5% difference for major opposition party New Democracy (ND). The survey, conducted by the University of Macedonia (PAMAK), sees conservative ND consolidating a double digit lead over SYRIZA among the voters’ choice. The new poll comes on the heels of another negative survey published in the Sunday edition of pro-government newspaper ‘Avgi’, which put the difference between the two parties at 10 percentage points in favour of the conservative party. More specifically, the new poll shows that 28.5% of those polled would vote for ND, compared to 16% who would support SYRIZA. Extreme right Golden Dawn (GD) received 7.5%, followed by the communist party (KKE) with 5.5% and the Democratic Alignment with 4.5%. Minor coalition partners in the Greek government ANEL and the Union Centrists were at 2% of the vote failing to reach the 3% threshold necessary to enter up parliament, while centre party To Potami, which is currently represented in the Greek the national assembly, has plummeted to 1.5%. The findings also showed that 62% of voters believe ND would be victorious in the upcoming elections, compared to only 13% who said they thought SYIZA would win. A large majority (85%) said they were disappointed with the government’s performance so far, while 56% responded the coalition government of SYRIZA/ANEL had nothing more to offer. On the matter of the tender for the TV licensing, 64.5% said they believed the procedures were politically motivated, while the respondents were favourable (81%) concerning ND leader’s recent promise that he would cut the ENFIA property tax by 30%.