Monday, September 14, 2015

Greece’s Two Heavyweights, Deadlocked in Polls, Seek Election Soundbite

 
Reuters, 14/09 16:04 CET

By Renee Maltezou and John Stonestreet

ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece’s two political heavyweights will have undecided voters in their sights on Monday in a final televised head-to-head debate before national elections, both seeking the elusive soundbite that might break a deadlock in opinion polls.

With Sunday’s ballot looming, the leftist Syriza party of former prime minister Alexis Tsipras and the New Democracy conservatives led by Vangelis Meimarakis have been stuck in the same place in the surveys for several weeks – virtually neck and neck and well short of parliamentary majority.

Their respective personal popularity ratings have also stagnated around or slightly below 45 percent.

Both men have so far given loyal voters little reason to switch allegiance, having devoted much of their campaigns to trading accusations over the country’s ailing economy, institutionalised corruption and responses to the refugee crisis.

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Source: Euronews

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