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SYRIZA Takes Lead Over New Democracy

survey saysThere’s good news and bad news for Greece’s major opposition party the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA.) The bad news was the licking the party took when its motion for a vote of no-confidence in the government of Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, the New Democracy Conservative leader, failed miserably and was rejected with only 124 out of 300 votes in the Parliament.
The good news is that an opinion poll gave SYRIZA a negligible 0.5 percent lead over New Democracy. Counting the margin of error, that’s no lead since either party could be the most popular now and the difference has been almost indiscernible between then in every survey for many months, making it difficult to gauge who is really ahead.
The Pulse RC survey for the weekly To Pontiki newspaper puts the leftist opposition party of Alexis Tsipras at 22 percent, against 21.5 percent for the conservative coalition leaders.
The neo-Nazi Golden Dawn, currently under investigation for alleged anti-immigrant violence and other criminal activity, has 10.5 percent, followed by Samaras’ coalition partner, the PASOK Socialists with 6.5, the Communist Party (KKE) with 5 percent, Independent Greeks at 4.5 and the Democratic Left, which withdrew from the government, at 3 percent, the threshold needed to be in Parliament.
Tsipras took a beating on the motion of censure he introduced in an attempt to embarrass Samaras for ordering riot police in to clean out the headquarters of the former state broadcaster ERT of previous workers there who had been occupying the building since they were fired in June.
Unlike the uproar that followed ERT’s closing and the dismissal of all 2,653 of its workers, there was little interest in the eviction of the workers from European or international journalists who mostly let it go without protest.

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