The latest study conducted by Public Issue and published in the Efimerida ton Syntankton newspaper regarding political developments and preferences in Greece have highlighted the degree of fragmentation in the body electorate.
While SYRIZA is consistently show to be ahead of all other parties in the poll, the leader of New Democracy Antonis Samaras is still considered to be the most suitable person for the position of Prime Minister, garnering 40% of the vote, compared to 30% of SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras.
Despite this though, Samaras and Tsipras remain more or less equally popular, with 39% and 38% of respondents respectively having a positive opinion about the two leaders:
- Antonis Samaras (New Democracy): 39%
- Alexis Tsipras (SYRIZA): 38%
- Fotis Kouvelis (DIMAR) 37%
- Dimitris Koutsoumpas (KKE) 27%
- Panos Kammenos (ANEL): 27%
- Evangelos Venizelos (PASOK): 18%
- Nikos Michaloliakos (Golden Dawn): 9%
Additionally, the polls show that 27% of respondents prefer a New Democracy-PASOK coalition, while only a 24% believe a SYRIZA administration will be more effective at tackling the major problems. About 44% however believes that neither a ND-PASOK coalition, nor a SYRIZA government is capable of rising to the challenge.
Paradoxically, the polls show that there is a greater degree of dissatisfaction with the opposition (88%) than the government (82%), while DIMAR also appears to have the second highest approval rating:
- SYRIZA: 37%
- DIMAR: 35%
- New Democracy: 32%
- KKE: 32%
- ANEL: 31%
- PASOK: 15%
- Golden Dawn: 10%
