Anti-Bailout Far-Left Party Takes Lead in Greece's Pre-Election Polls
Greece's radical leftist SYRIZA party is on the road of becoming the biggest group in the troubled country's next parliament, an opinion poll showed on Wednesday.
A VPRC survey polled Greeks over the May 10-14 period as party leaders struggled to cobble together a coalition following an inconclusive May 6 election. Leaders admitted failure on Tuesday, and Greece is set to return to the ballot on June 17, according to a party source.
SYRIZA, which placed second in the election this month with nearly 17% of the vote, now commands support from 20.3% of voters, the poll showed, while pro-bailout parties continue to suffer.
The conservative New Democracy's support slipped sharply to 14.2% while backing for the Socialist PASOK party dipped to 10.9%, both well below levels seen in a previous poll conducted after the election.
The VPRC poll does not exclude undecided voters, who accounted for 17.3% of those surveyed.
The far-right Golden Dawn party is said to have the support of 2.2% of the voters even though its performance on May 6 was substantially better.
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