Greek Election Campaign Starts With Tsipras in Narrow Lead
- Polls show Syriza leader won't get majority in September vote
- Tsipras says euro exit would mean `mass suicide' for Greeks
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Greece’s election campaign formally began with polls showing Alexis Tsipras’s lead over opposition parties may not be large enough for the former prime minister to avoid thorny coalition negotiations.
Tsipras’s Syriza party would get 24.6 percent of the vote if elections were held now, with a 1.8 percentage-point lead over main opposition party New Democracy, according to an MRB survey for the Agora newspaper. A poll for Alpha TV gave Syriza a lead of 2.1 percentage points, while a University of Macedonia survey for Skai TV had Syriza ahead by 3 percentage points over New Democracy, led by Evangelos Meimarakis.