Main opposition New Democracy (ND) party is recorded as gaining a half percentage point in the latest Pulse firm opinion poll, compared to the results of a poll by the same firm last month.

Specifically, the center-right party is given 29.5%.

In an extrapolation of the results, ND appears ahead of second-place PASOK party by 16.5 percentage points, the second biggest such difference since 2016, as far as the specific opinion poll firm is concerned, and coincided at the time with the election of Kyriakos Mitsotakis, the incumbent prime minister today, to the helm of ND.

All lesser opposition parties, except the right-wing and out-of-Parliament Foni Logikis (Voice of Reason), appear as losing support in the latest poll.

Main opposition PASOK is shown at 13% on the question of voters’ preferences, marginally ahead of the left-wing and Eurosceptic Plefsi Eleftherias (Course of Freedom) party, at 12.8%.

Queries over possible new parties

The number of respondents who answered that they’d vote for another party reaches 10.5% this month, up from 9.7% last month.

Two possible “new entries” in Greece’s political landscape are parties by Maria Karystianou, the most prominent relative of a Tempi rail collision victim, and former prime minister Alexis Tsipras.

Of those who favored “another party”, 54% said they view any Karystianou-created party in a positive light; only 11% of those picking “another party” said they view a new Tsipras-led party in a positive light.