Main opposition New Democracy (ND) shadow finance minister Christos Staikouras in an interview with the Sunday newspaper Real News said that on one hand we have ND's comprehensive, realistic and costed programme and on the other hand a bad and piecemeal copy of some of ND's proposals in which SYRIZA does not believe and can't implement".
The latest results from a major opinion poll on Thursday showed a lead by center-right New Democracy (ND) party over leftist SYRIZA at 8.5 percentage points, the mediam difference from an extrapolation of valid answers of respondents on the question of which party they will vote for in the July 7 snap election.
Sunday's European Parliament elections witnessed a change at the top and bottom of the political spectrum in Greece, as center-right New Democracy (ND) handily defeated hard left SYRIZA, whereas a handful of smaller parties that entered Parliament during the 2015 elections essentially "vanished" from the political landscape.