Greek election poll shows Syriza at 26%, conservative party 25%, Golden Dawn 6% and

[pampango]

Popular Unity that split from Syriza at 4%.

Greece's Syriza party lead shrinks further in election race: poll

Greece's Syriza party is on course to win 26 percent of votes in a snap election in September, just one point ahead of the conservative New Democracy party, a poll published by the Pulse for Action 24 television channel said on Tuesday.

The new poll also said the Golden Dawn party was on course to win 6 percent of votes, while 10.5 percent of Greeks were undecided.

The poll showed that Independent Greeks will not win enough votes to pass the 3 percent threshold to enter parliament, while the Popular Unity party, a hard-left splinter group that broke from Syriza last month, will get 4 percent.

A quarter of the people polled would like to see a coalition government made up of Syriza, New Democracy and other parties.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/01/us-eurozone-greece-poll-idUSKCN0R14P720150901

I read elsewhere that a party has to win 3% of the vote to get seats in the parliament. The Independent Greeks are RW populist that was the coalition partner for Syriza.

[Betty Karlson]

1. Please note that the biggest party in parliament gets an extra 80 seats:

it's the quirkiest of election laws Greece has, but it is believed to produce strong governments.

[pampango]

2. Thanks for that. I remember that now but had forgotten it. n/t