Greek main opposition SYRIZA has a 3.4 percentage point lead over ruling New Democracy (ND), according to an opinion poll to be published on Thursday’s edition of newspaper “To Pontiki.” 31.2% of the survey participants said they intend to vote for SYRIZA and 27.8% for ND. In a previous poll, SYRIZA had 31.2% again and ND 28%. Third place was “To Potami” with 5.1%, followed by far-right Golden Dawn (GD) with 5%, the Greek Communist Party (KKE) with 4%, PASOK with 3.6%, Independent Greeks (ANEL) with 2.6% and Democrat Socialists Movement (KIDISO) with 2.4%. “Other party” was selected by 4.1% of those taking the survey, while 1.5% said they would cast a blank ballot, 2.4% said they would abstain and 10.3% were undecided. Extrapolating the percentages by discounting invalid votes and abstention, SYRIZA receives 32.4% of the vote, ND 28.9%, “To Potami” 5.3%, GD 5.2%, KKE 4.2%, PASOK 3.7%, ANEL 2.7% and KIDISO 2.5%. A further 4.3% of the vote goes to “other party” and the percentage of undecided voters rises to 10.6%. The survey was conducted nationwide from January 11-13. (source: ana-mpa)