Seven in ten Greeks are dissatisfied with their lives and feel let down by the country’s two main political parties while a third would not vote for any of the five parties in Greece’s Parliament, a new poll revealed this week.

According to the survey carried by polling firm Public Issue on a sample of 1,006 citizens in the first week of July, 65 per cent of respondents said they trusted neither ruling PASOK nor the main conservative opposition New Democracy to run the country.

Another 25 per cent said they think PASOK is the best party to lead the country while only 4 percent said they would want ND in power.

Still, eight out of ten respondents said they were unhappy with the work of the PASOK administration, which has focused on pushing through a raft of austerity measures since it came to power last October.

Nine out of ten said they were unhappy with ND, which has been riven with internal disputes since last November when Antonis Samaras was elected party leader. A third of respondents said they would prefer a coalition government while another 17 per cent wants a government representing all the parties in Parliament.

As regards the popularity of political leaders, Prime Minister George Papandreou has seen his support decline by three percentage points, to 40 per cent, while Antonis Samaras has dropped 4 percentage points to 19 per cent. A third of respondents said they would want neither of the two in the role of Prime Minister.

In one of the most shocking findings, a third (35.5 per cent) of the poll’s respondents said that if elections were held today, they would either boycott the vote or cast a blank ballot.