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Greek Elections: New Democracy Slightly Ahead, SYRIZA Loses Young Vote

tsipras---meimarThe close race in opinion polls ahead of Sunday’s elections continues, with a new survey showing conservative New Democracy leading over leftist SYRIZA by half a percentage point.
The new poll by Pulse for Action 24 television, was conducted after Monday’s debate between election main rivals SYRIZA and New Democracy leaders Alexis Tsipras and Vangelis Meimarakis.
New Democracy received a 27.5 percent support rate, slightly ahead of SYRIZA’s 27 percent. In third place there was a tie between the center-left PASOK-DIMAR alliance and far-right Golden Dawn getting 6.5 percent of potential voters each.
In the fifth place there is another tie between centrists To Potami and the Greek Communist Party (KKE) at 5 percent. Far-leftists Popular Unity followed with 3.5 percent, the Centrists Union received 2.5 percent and rightists Independent Greeks (ANEL) received 2 percent. This time the undecided voters were only 7 percent.
SYRIZA loses big part of young vote
The U-turn Alexis Tsipras made in July when he signed a bailout deal full of austerity measures cost him not only a substantial number of his lawmakers, but a big portion of the young vote as well. This explains the drop in SYRIZA percentages in opinion polls.
About two weeks ago SYRIZA party youth announced that they will not support the party in the elections, with almost half of the members leaving the committee.
In a survey conducted by Ethnos newspaper, only 18.6 percent of the 18-34 age bracket plan to support SYRIZA. In the January elections the percentage stood at 30. The poll also shows that 7 percent of 18- to-34-year-olds plan to abstain from voting on Sunday while another 14 percent are still undecided.

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