The main opposition Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA) party maintains its lead of 3.7 percentage points against the senior coalition government partner New Democracy (ND) party in Sunday's European Parliament elections.

Thirty nine parties, seven coalitions, and an independent candidate are running in Greece for the upcoming European parliament elections.

Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras, in his reply to the questionnaire by the European Parliament's Finance Committee, that was sent to the Committee on Monday and forwarded to the Greek Parliament, detected failures and the non-timely diagnosis by the eurozone of the Greek economy's problems in the implementation of the first fiscal adjustment programme in 2010.