The Latest Poll Shows Greek Elections Are on a Knife Edge

02-Sep (Bloomberg) — The latest poll from Greece shows that the country’s Sept. 20 election is too close to call.

Alexis Tsipras’s Syriza party would get 23 percent of the total vote if elections were held now, compared with 22.6 percent for the main opposition party, New Democracy, a voting-intentions survey by Alco published on Newsit.gr website shows. The lead is much smaller than what previous polls showed, as Tsipras struggles to contain the fallout from a rift within his party.

No party would get enough votes for an outright majority in the next parliament, according to all surveys published so far, meaning that Europe’s most indebted state could face thorny coalition talks after the ballot. Those could have the effect of delaying or derailing the implementation of its bailout clauses.

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PG View: If the Tsipras gambit to consolidate power backfires, the entire 4th bailout could get nullified.