Greek Election: New Democracy And Syriza In Dead Heat

By Palash Ghosh | June 17 2012 12:28 PM

As voting finishes in Greek’s crucial national election, exit polls suggest that the pro-bailout conservative New Democracy party and the anti-bailout leftist Syriza party are running neck and neck in a contest still too close to call.

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Leftist Syriza party leader Alexis Tsipras is seen in a polling station after voting in Athens Sunday.

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Polls indicate ND has taken between 27.5 percent and 30.5 percent of the vote; while Syriza getting between 27-30 percent. The Socialist PASOK party is in a distant third with between 10 and12 percent of the vote.

If these numbers prove accurate, ND and Pasok (the only two parties which support terms of the EU/IMF bailouts that Greece has received) wouldn’t have a majority to run the next government.