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Polls: Greek's pro-austerity parties gaining
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| Last Edited | Jason May 30, 2012 06:09am |
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| News Date | Sunday, May 27, 2012 12:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | ATHENS, Greece (AP) - Three weeks before Greece has another election, opinion polls published Sunday indicated the election will result in no single party gaining a majority in parliament, but two parties that favor implementing Greece's bailout programs could be able to form a coalition government.
The four surveys show that Greek voters, tired of more than two years of austerity that have seen salaries and pensions cut and new taxes imposed, nonetheless want Greece to keep the euro and not revert to its own currency, the drachma.
The polls were published Sunday in the To Vima, Real News, Proto Thema and Eleftheros Typos newspapers.
The polls indicate that pro-bailout New Democracy party and anti-bailout Syriza would probably finish first and second again, but that New Democracy would win more seats in parliament than during the May 6 national election, allowing it to team up with Socialist PASOK in a governing coalition.
Voters angry at austerity measures had given both the conservatives and socialists a drubbing on May 6, dropping them to historical lows. The socialists, winners of the previous election in 2009 dropped from 43.9 percent to 13.2 percent of the vote and third place, while the conservatives won but saw their vote drop from 33.5 percent to 18.9 percent. Syriza, the main beneficiary of the protest vote, jumped from fifth place and 4.6 percent in 2009 to second and 16.7 percent. |
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