A15-percentage-point difference between ruling SYRIZA and main opposition New Democracy (ND), in favor of the latter, appears more-or-less entrenched, at least in terms of opinion poll results.
The latest figures come from a poll by the Marc firm, commissioned and published in the Sunday weekly “Proto Thema”, Greece’s largest selling newspaper.
Specifically, the ruling leftist party is given a mere 15.1 percent of respondents’ support, as opposed to 30.5 percent for the center-right New Democracy party.
One interesting result of the latest poll shows a direct switch of previous SYRIZA supporters to the ND camp.
Not much is changed in terms of support for lesser parties, with the Communist Party (KKE) and ultra-nationalist Golden Dawn (Chryssi Avgi) both polling 6.74 percent, followed by a PASOK-led socialist grouping with 5.26 percent.
In a further breakdown of the specific sample, 59.3 percent of respondents that said they voted for SYRIZA in the snap September 2015 election confided that they would not vote for the party again in any upcoming election.
Additionally, 65 percent of respondents said Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’ visit to Cuba this month, to attend a memorial service for Fidel Castro, was a mistake. The once radical leftist Tsipras was the only serving European leader to attend the public service for the late Cuban strongman.
Finally, 67 percent respondents that identified themselves as previous SYRIZA voters expressed a negative opinion of the current government.
