Ruling New Democracy (ND) party maintains a dominant lead of 13.4 percentage points over its nearest rival, according to a new Real Polls survey conducted for news website Protagon, as the emergence of two new political parties this month continues to reshape the country’s opposition landscape.
The poll places former prime minister Alexis Tsipras’ newly formed party, called the Greek Left Alliance (ELAS), in second place, while “Hope for Democracy,” led by one-time Tempi victims’ relatives representative Maria Karystianou, shows up in third place.
(Maria Karystianou. Photo credit: Konstantinos Tsakalidis / SOOC)
The findings underscore a growing fragmentation of Greece’s opposition parties, especially on the left spectrum, a trend reflected in several opinion polls published over the past two months, with support for traditional center-left and left-wing parties continuing to erode.
In terms of voting intention, center-right ND received 27.5% of respondents’ preference, followed by ELAS with 14.1% and Hope for Democracy with 11.4%. Main opposition PASOK fell to 8.6%, now stuck in single digits, while the Communist Party (KKE) polled at 5.1%.
Further down, the right-wing Greek Solution (Elliniki Lysi) party received 4.3%, the far-right Voice of Reason (Foni Logikis) party 3.9%, and the left-wing Course of Freedom (Plefsi Eleftherias) party 3.7%, marking a sharp decline for the latter, founded and led Zoe Konstantopoulou.
Yanis Varoufakis’ radical left MeRA25 stood at 1.5%, while leftist SYRIZA dropped to a mere 1.2%.
Undecided voters accounted for 9% in the specific poll.
In projected election results, ND rises to 29.1%, ahead of Tsipras’ newly minted ELAS at 16.1% and Hope for Democracy at 13.1%. PASOK follows with 9.4%, while the Communist Party polled at 7.4%. Greek Solution reaches 5.6%, Course of Freedom 4.5% and current out-of-Parliament Voice of Reason 4.1%.
Greece’s former Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras holds the founding declaration, during the official announcement of his new political party, ELAS-Greek Left Alliance, ahead of the 2027 parliamentary elections, in Athens, Greece, May 26, 2026. REUTERS/Louisa Gouliamaki
The survey suggests that the emergence of the two new parties is consolidating support around incumbent Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ ruling party, while intensifying competition across the opposition spectrum, particularly among center-left and so-called “protest parties”.
Recent polling trends have similarly shown New Democracy maintaining a stable lead despite growing public dissatisfaction over inflation, the Tempi train disaster fallout and broader governance concerns, while opposition parties struggle to establish a coherent alternative political narrative.
The Real Polls survey for Protagon was conducted nationwide between May 23 and May 25 among a sample of 1,667 respondents aged 17 and older, while using mobile-phone messaging and random sampling with one-time access codes.
