Main opposition New Democracy (ND) party continues to field a double-digit percentage point lead over ruling SYRIZA in the latest - almost monthly - opinion poll by the Pulse firm, as presented by the Athens-based Skai broadcaster during Thursday's prime-time newscast.
Center-right ND is preferred by 33 percent of respondents in the specific poll, to 22 percent for leftist SYRIZA. The tallies are derived from an extrapolation of results, based on the number of valid responses.
ND increased its difference from SYRIZA by half a percentage point from the previous month's poll, where it stood at 33.5 percent to 23 percent for SYRIZA. Both parties, however, fell slightly from last month.
Without an extrapolation of the results, the figures are 31 and 21 percent, respectively.
Ultra-nationalist Golden Dawn (Chryssi Avgi) remains in third place with 8 percent, followed by a socialist/social democrat grouping mostly coalesced around formerly dominant PASOK, called KI.NAL, at 7.5 percent. The Communist Party (KKE) polls 6.5 percent.
No other party or political grouping is given above three percent of respondents' preferences. To enter Greece's Parliament a party must exceed 3 percent of valid votes cast in the election.
Nevertheless, a newcomer to the political scene, called "Elliniki Lyssi" (Greek solution), debuts with 2 percent in the specific poll. The party is alternately described as radical conservative, pro-Orthodoxy and Russophile.
The tally for the undecided/no answer vote reached 13 percent.
Asked which party they believe will win the next election, regardless of who they vote for, 59 percent of respondents said ND (57 percent in September 2018), to 22 percent for SYRIZA (24 percent the previous month).
Asked to comment on the Prespa agreement regarding the name of the neighboring former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (fYRoM), 44 percent of respondents assessed that the accord will not be implemented. Specifically, 31 percent of respondents said they believed it "probably" will not be implemented, and "definitely not" 13 percent. The "probably yes" figure for the same question reached 33 percent; 10 percent said it will "definitely" be implemented.
