Recent polls firmly place Greece’s Social Democratic party in main opposition second place

In extrapolating the vote, ruling ND reaches 29.2%, higher than the actual figure it received in last June’s European Parliament election, 28.3%. PASOK at 17.2%

Incumbent Nikos Androulakis leads in the PASOK race (26.4%), with Athens Mayor Haris Doukas figuring in second place (24.7%)

Six candidates will be on the PASOK ballot, including incumbent Nikos Androulakis and Athens Mayor Haris Doukas

Results of the poll were presented on Thursday evening during the prime-time newscast of Athens-based Mega Channel

The 6 candidates included incumbent Nikos Androulakis, former minister and current deputy Pavlos Geroulanos, Nadia Giannakopoulou, also a MP, former minister and EU Commissioner Anna Diamantopoulou, Athens Mayor Haris Doukas, and MP Michalis Katrinis

Center-right ND is preferred by 23.7% of respondents, compared to 13.2% for socialist PASOK and 9.1% for leftist SYRIZA

Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis opines that not only is there no wire-taping scandal, but that it's possibly...normal to tap the phones of ministers, government officials, military officers and journalists

Opposition also demands SC deputy prosecutor's report on wire-tapping probe; sources counter that separation of powers principle at risk with summons

In his first comment after an announcement on Tuesday, PASOK party leader Nikos Androulakis referred to a 'wire-tap and cover-up scandal'