ND opens up lead, 2nd place up for grabs

With just 24 days before the European Parliament elections, an MRB poll on behalf of Open TV gave ruling New Democracy a 13.4-point lead over leftist opposition SYRIZA, widening the gap compared to the company's previous findings.

According to voting intention, ND got 26.5% compared to 13.1% for SYRIZA, which is only slightly ahead of socialist PASOK, which showed a slight uptick with 11.5%. Nationalist Greek Solution was fourth with 8.1%, ahead of communist KKE (6.6%), New Left (3.1%), Course for Freedom (2.8%), Niki (2.4%), Foni Logikis (Voice of Reason) (2.3%), Dimokrates (2%) and MeRA25 (1.8%).

The survey also showed that 60.3% of respondents said that by voting they want to send a message of dissatisfaction to ND, while 32.7% said they will vote because the country needs government stability.

Moreover, while most voters positively assessed the recent...