Reuters, Athens :Former Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’ leftist Syriza will emerge as the biggest party in next month’s election but without the majority it was hoping for, the first opinion polls since he resigned last week showed on Friday.One found that almost two thirds of voters felt Tsipras should not have sought a fresh mandate, while three surveys showed that his favoured coalition ally, the Independent Greeks party, would not make it into parliament.The polls suggested his gamble to call early elections scheduled for Sept. 20 to consolidate his power base could backfire, though in one of the polls over a quarter of voters remained undecided, making the final outcome far from clear.Syriza was supported by 23 percent of those polled by ProRata for Friday’s Efimerida Ton Syntakton newspaper, with the conservative opposition New Democracy party second on 19.5 percent. The previous ProRata poll in early July showed a wider gap in Syriza’s favour, putting the party on 26 percent compared with 15 percent for New Democracy.Syriza would get 29 percent and New Democracy party 27.8 percent if elections were held now, a poll conducted by Metron Analysis for Parapolitika newspaper showed. The result includes undecided voters.
