Opinion poll

All of the most recent public opinion polls that have been conducted in Greece appear to support what analysts have been saying, that New Democracy will quite likely win the next general election, whenever it will be called. The most recent poll, conducted by the University of Macedonia, indicates that the lead New Democracy has over SYRIZA has grown further.

Centrist Emmanuel Macron has recorded a landslide victory against far-right populist opponent Marine Le Pen to become the President of the French Republic. Macron won 65% of the vote, according to the Ispos/Sopra Steria for French state TV estimate. The turnout at 5pm was estimated at 65.3% of the 47 million registered voters.

The voting estimates given in French elections are not similar to the regular exit polls used in most countries. Unlike other countries which undertake exit polls based on asking people who they voted for, the French system, which had been in use since 1968 uses the actual vote count to reach a prediction.

The head of the Eurasia Opinion Research Center (AKAM), Kemal Özkiraz, has announced that he will close his survey company following its failure to accurately predict the April 16 constitutional referendum results.

Before the vote, Özkiraz had said he would close the company if the "yes" side won, adding that his surveys indicated the "no" side would win 53 percent of the vote.

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has quoted pollsters as saying that "no" votes in Istanbul, Turkey's largest city, are in the lead ahead of the April 16 referendum on whether to shift to an executive presidential system. 

Two days after an opinion poll showed the ruling SYRIZA party trailing the conservative opposition by 17.5 percentage points, Interior Minister Panos Skourletis said that the leftist-led government has no intention of holding an early election.

Facing the very real possibility of an election victory for France’s far-right Presidential hopeful Marine Le Pen, a number of leftists in France are threatening to move to Canada.

According to Yahoo.com, pollsters predict Le Pen will make it through the first round of voting on April 23rd due to the “unwavering support of about one in four voters.”

The countdown has started. Can the country go down a one-man rule - however it might be described - or will the nation, despite the massive and official pro-"Yes" campaign, say it will not succumb to it and agree on giving up parliamentary democracy despite all its deficiencies? Regardless of what is said by both sides, there is an increasing excitement and some degree of confusion.

An opinion poll carried out by Palmos Analysis gives New Democracy a lead of more than 13 points over SYRIZA.

According to the survey, published on the Tvxs news website on Saturday, New Democracy is backed by 23.9 percent of voters, while just 10.6 percent expressed support for SYRIZA.

Francois Fillon's troubled election campaign suffered yet another blow on March 14 when magistrates put him under formal investigation on suspicion of embezzling state funds, a first for a presidential candidate in France.