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Saturday, July 11, 2015

Overwhelming majority of Greeks want to keep euro, poll shows

A total of 84 percent of Greeks want to keep the euro, with just 12 percent favouring a return to the drachma, an opinion poll showed on Friday, as the country races to clinch a cash-for-reforms deal with its creditors. The poll by Metron Analysis for Parapolitika newspaper showed that although the overwhelming majority of those polled want to remain in the single currency, 55 percent said it was the right choice to vote 'No' in last weekend's referendum on tough austerity measures. Whilst 47.5 percent of respondents backing Syriza said they preferred to keep the single currency, 40 percent believed returning to the drachma was the better option.


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