Greek Government Leads Post-Summer Poll as Voters Demand Early Elections

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ New Democracy party remains comfortably ahead in Greece’s first post-summer opinion poll, while support for Alexis Tsipras’ ELA.S. party has slipped and backing for Maria Karystianou’s party has fallen sharply. The Interview poll for Politic put New Democracy at 26.5%, compared with 14.5% for ELA.S., widening the governing party’s lead to 12 percentage points from 11 in July. PASOK remained third at 10%, followed by the Hellenic Solution at 9%. The Communis...

By ANTHEE CARASSAVA