This month’s Greek polls have established – beyond any doubt – three key findings: first, that New Democracy dominates the Greek political scene, second, that PASOK consolidates itself in second place, and third, that SYRIZA is collapsing after the election of Stefanos Kasselakis as the new party leader. A new poll from Prorata – one of Greece’s major social research private institutions – concludes that SYRIZA is essentially fighting for third place with the Greek communist party, KKE.
In more detail, Prorata has found that New Democracy polls at around 34 per cent, PASOK at 12 per cent, while SYRIZA and KKE poll at 10.5 per cent. Further down, Hellenic Solution polls at 4 per cent, Plefsi Eleftherias polls at 3.5 per cent, while Niki and Spartans polls at 2.5 per cent- which is below the required 3 per cent threshold to make it to the Greek Parliament. MerA25 – the party of the Greek-Australian former Greek Minister of Economics, Yanis Varoufakis – polls just at 2 per cent, while the percentage of those declaring themselves undecided is around 15.5 per cent.
Regarding popular opinion towards Greek political leaders, 33 per cent of the Greek citizens have positive views towards ND’s leader – and Prime Minister since 2019 – Kyriakos Mitsotakis. However, KKE’s leader Dimitris Koutsoumpas comes second with 23 per cent, PASOK’s Nikos Androulakis comes third with 18 per cent, Plefsi’s Zoe Konstantopoulou fourth with 15 per cent, Hellenic Solution’s Kyriakos Velopoulos fifth with 13 per cent, and SYRIZA’s Stefanos Kasselakis sixth with just 11 per cent. Essentially, Kasselakis only defeats Niki’s Dimitris Natsios – who polls at 4 per cent – and the Spartans’ Vassilis Stigkas – who polls at 3 per cent.
In terms of the trust index in relation to the country’s prime ministership, Kyriakos Mitsotakis outperforms his competitors by an extremely large margin – as he polls at around 39 per cent – with Stefanos Kasselakis, Nikos Androulakis, and Dimitris Koutsoumpas polling below 6 per cent. Importantly, 39 per cent of the survey’s respondents stated that they “do not trust any political leader as prime minister of the country.”
In what concerns SYRIZA, Prorata argues that both PASOK and ND profit from the internal chaos which torments Greece’s official opposition party. Notably, 42 per cent of the respondents have argued that that there is a need to create a new left-wing parliamentary party – a view which is also shared by 44 per cent of those who voted for SYRIZA back in June 2023. In other words, after Alexis Tsipras stepped down from SYRIZA – and after the double electoral defeat in 2023 – the party seems to have lost its edge, while Tsipras’ successor, Stefanos Kasselakis, seems unable to help the current biggest Greek left wing party recover.
