Predictions for the election of 25th June

With less than two weeks to go until the new election on 25th June, a picture is beginning to emerge of how things might turn out. The latest polls show Nea Dimokratia maintaining the lead which it had in the May 21st election, while the major opposition parties retain the same pecking order. However, there are some changes at the bottom of the list: both Elliniki Lysi and Mera25 have lost votes compared with May 21st, with Mera25 remaining out of Parliament, while Elliniki Lysi still clears the 3 per cent threshold for entry. Most notably, two parties which were below the Parliamentary threshold in May – the right-wing religious party Niki and Zoe Konstantopoulou’s Plevsi Eleftherias – have now cleared it, bringing the prospect of 7-party Parliament, as against 5 parties in the short-lived Parliament produced by the 21st May election.

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