Greek polls show anti-bailout leftists still ahead but lead slips


  • World
  • Sunday, 21 Dec 2014

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's radical leftist Syriza party would beat the ruling conservatives if an election were held now but its lead has shrunk from last month, two opinion polls showed on Saturday.

A survey by Rass for Sunday's Eleftheros Typos newspaper, conducted on Dec. 17-18 after Greek lawmakers failed to elect a president in a first-round vote, showed support for Syriza at 27.1 percent versus 23.7 percent for Prime Minister Antonis Samaras's New Democracy.

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