(Bloomberg) -- Greece's main opposition New Democracy party would win parliamentary elections with a 9 percentage point lead if they were held now, according to a Pulse RC poll for Skai TV.
New Democracy, a conservative party, would get from 31.5% to 36.5% of the vote compared with 22.5% to 27.5% for the governing leftist Syriza party, according to the poll. The survey is the first since Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras called a snap national ballot following his party's defeat in European elections a week ago.
The center-left Movement for Change would come third with 6.5% to 9.5% of the vote, the Communist Party of Greece fourth with 4.5% to 6.6%, the far-right Golden Dawn party fifth with 4% to 6% and Greek Solution, a new nationalist party, placed sixth with 3% to 5%. Mera25, the new party of former Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis would receive from 2% to 4% of the vote. Parties need to reach the threshold of 3% to elect a member to parliament.
Pulse RC surveyed 1,358 people from May 30 to June 1. The margin of error was +/- 2.7%.
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