A small circulation daily affiliated with the ruling SYRIZA party has reportedly severed ties with a well-known public opinion poll company that recently unveiled particularly negative results for the leftist government and PM Alexis Tsipras personally.
The announcement was made by the Athens-based firm, Public Issue, which took to Twitter on Monday to say that the decision was made by the management of the “Avgi” daily.
The same newspaper, which toes an unwavering pro-government stance vis-à-vis the SYRIZA coalition government, published the Public Issue opinion poll on Oct. 2. The latter showed nine of out 10 respondents unhappy with the Tsipras government.
Some 85 percent of respondents, in fact, also assessed that the country was headed in the wrong direction, whereas an eyebrow-raising 42 percent of respondents said main opposition New Democracy (ND) leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis was better suited to be premier – 23 percent picked Tsipras.
The publication of the opinion poll results, called the “Political Barometer”, in the ruling party’s own paper generated a mini furor at the time.
