May 6, 2012
Exit polls published shortly after the polls closed in Greece’s general election indicate strong gains for Syriza, a radical leftwing party that rejects the country’s bailout programme as “barbarous” yet wants to stay in the euro.
The polls showed a dramatic collapse in support for the two main parties, the centre-right New Democracy and PanHellenic Socialist Movement (Pasok), raising fears they would not be able to form a viable coalition government.
If as seems likely, the two pro-European Union parties are now likely to win less than 40 per cent of the vote, their leaders, Antonis Samaras and Evangelos Venizelos, may decide to press for a second election to be held within a few weeks, rather than try to govern with an overall majority of less than 20 seats.
New Democracy would win 17- 20 per cent of the vote, well below earlier forecasts of 25 per cent. Pasok would capture 14-17 per cent, a record low, according to the results of a poll for Mega Television.
Syriza would poll 15.5-18.5 per cent, more than triple its percentage at the last elections in 2009. Independent Greeks, a rightwing splinter group would win 10-12 per cent. A second poll by Kapa Research came up with almost identical results.
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