Ruling New Democracy (ND) party remained solidly in first place (29.8%) in the latest opinion poll results announced on Thursday evening by the Metron Analysis firm and presented on the prime-time newscast of Athens-based Mega Channel.
Center-right ND is shown with marginal losses compared to the same poll by Metron Analysis last month, while socialist-cum social democrat PASOK now firmly in second place (with 15.7%) and easily exceeding leftist SYRIZA, the main opposition party in Parliament, which falls to single-digit “territory” and is, in fact, now fifth in terms of the poll results.
ND garnered 29.9% of respondents’ preferences, exceeding its tally in last June’s European Parliament election by more than 1 percentage point.
Third place goes to the right-of-center and Eurosceptic Elliniki Lysi (Greek Solution) party, with 10.9%, followed by the Communist Party, with 9.7%. The now beleagured SYRIZA party, which is effectively without an elected leadership after Stefanos Kasselakis was deposed by a majority central committee vote, picked up 9.5%.
Another bit of good news for PASOK from the specific poll is the fact that 47% of respondents said they could, in the future, possibly vote for the party in a general election. The corresponding figure for ND is 41%, the percentage it received in the July 2023 election.
A rising cost-of-living is deemed as the most serious problem facing citizens, with 46% of respondents saying so, followed by the state of the economy, 23%.
Despite the modest 29.8% showing, the Mitsotakis government and its rival main opposition are evaluated negatively by a majority of respondents, with the former earning a 68% “thumbs down”, whereas SYRIZA earned a whopping 87% disapproval figure.
