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Greek Conservatives Keep Slight Lead Over Opposition: Poll

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras’s conservatives have maintained a slight lead over the main opposition party Syriza, according to an opinion poll published Sunday.
New Democracy, the major partner in the coalition government, enjoyed a 24.8 percent lead over the radical left party Syriza’s 22.8 percent, said the survey published in the Proto Thema newspaper.
Samaras himself also led in the personal approval ratings with 34 percent support compared with 30 percent for Syriza leader Alexis Tsipras, according to the poll conducted by the Alco company.
Samaras’s government, which took office after a June election and is also made up of socialists and moderate leftists, has been trying to finalise a painful new round of austerity cuts amounting to about 11.5 billion euros ($14.5 billion).
The cuts, necessary to unlock the next instalment of EU-IMF loans that have been keeping the Greek economy afloat, should be finalised this week ahead of a visit by the so-called troika of EU, IMF and European Central Bank auditors.
The mission, expected in Athens on Friday, will continue monitoring Greece’s application of its reform programme that forms part of the bailout deal.
(source: Proto Thema, AFP)

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