The most recent opinion poll this week has ruling New Democracy (ND) party fielding a 15.1-percentage-point lead over a resurgent leftist party led by Zoe Konstantopoulou, which “bumped” main opposition PASOK from second place, at least based on results of this poll.

Conducted by the Real Polls firm for the Protagon news site, the poll gives center-right ND 28.7% of respondents’ preference, a figure that exceeds the party’s showing in the June 2024 European Parliament election, namely 28.31%, but below its general election showing in 2023.

The same poll results pointed to reversals on the opposition side, as Konstantopoulou’s party returned to second place with 13.6%, compared to 11. 8% last month, while socialist-social democrat PASOK, the main opposition party, lost more than 1.5 percentage points to stand at 10.3%, down from 12.5% in mid-December.

Amid ongoing speculation over the establishment of a new political party by former prime minister Alexis Tsipras and by Maria Karystianou, the most vocal and visible relative of a Tempi rail collision victim, once formidable SYRIZA fell to 4.1% in terms of voters’ intent and 5.3% in an extrapolation of the results.

The other lesser opposition parties remained mostly at the same levels as last month, with the right-wing and Eurosceptic Elliniki Lysi (Greek Solution) at 6.9% and 9%, respectively.

Asked how likely they would be to vote for a party led by Tsipras, eight out of 10 respondents replied negatively (67.9% “definitely not” and 12.3% “probably not”), while the positive answers for the former SYRIZA leader fell to 16% (4.6% “definitely yes” and 11.4% “probably yes”), down from 21.7% in the corresponding survey last month.

When asked the same question about Karystianou , two out of three responded negatively (52% “definitely no” and 14.1% “probably no”), while one in four responded positively (9.3% “definitely yes” and 18.3% “probably yes”).

Karystianou also appears as personally more popular than incumbent Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Tsipras.