A victory by four to six percentage points against Greece’s main government party, New Democracy, in Sunday’s European Parliament elections could trigger “further political developments”, said Alexis Tsipras, leader of left wing opposition party SYRIZA, clearly stating the conditions under which he will try to force an early national election.

All the latest polls indicate that the main opposition party is poised to win the euro-elections by a margin of two to three percentage points. However, given the recent poor track record of polling in Greece, analysts are reluctant to make definitive predictions about the outcome of the electoral battle.

Throughout the pre-election period, SYRIZA attempted to turn Sunday’s elections for the European Parliament, as well as for local and regional government, into a referendum against the ruling Coalition and the terms of the bailout agreement with the international creditors. Indicative of this effort are the two main campaign slogans of the opposition party, “We vote, they go” and “We ran out of patience.”

Addressing his party’s main rally in Omonia Square, Athens, on Thursday night, Alexis Tsipras said that Sunday’s election battle must be seen as a vote on whether the ND-PASOK coalition should remain in power.

Prime Minister Antonis Samaras accused the opposition party of risking “blowing everything into the air” by threatening to push for snap elections if it wins Sunday’s polls. Samaras and Evagelos Venizelos, leader of the junior government party PASOK argued throughout the final days of the campaign that a vote for SYRIZA would be a vote for “turning the country back.”

The first round of Greece’s local and regional government elections produced an inconclusive result last Sunday that allowed both the country’s governing parties, New Democracy and PASOK, as well as the main opposition, SYRIZA, to claim that they had performed well ahead of the second round tomorrow.

Greek voters are going to the polls to elect 22 out of the 766 Members of the European Parliament and a candidate from the Pan European political parties who might be appointed as the next President of the European Commission (EC). SYRIZA’s leader Alexis Tsipras is running as a candidate for the Presidency of the EC under the small party of the European Left.

Greeks will also be electing on Sunday governors for 12 of the 13 regions of the country and Mayors for 217 out of its 325 municipalities, including Athens and Thessaloniki.

Read more in Saturday’s edition of Neos Kosmos.