ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek leftist opposition party Syriza maintained a lead over the ruling conservatives, two polls showed on Friday, with one indicating the gap had narrowed slightly.
A Rass poll showed Syriza, which opposes Greece's international bailout program, would get 29.8 percent in a snap election due on Jan. 25, with the party of Prime Minister Antonis Samaras on 27.1 percent.
That compares to a lead of 3.1 points in a poll published by the same firm last week, which includes undecided voters and those who said they would spoil their ballot paper.
A Metron Analysis survey to be published in the Parapolitika newspaper on Saturday showed Syriza would win 34.1 percent of the vote if elections were held now, a lead of 4.1 percent.
Samaras's New Democracy party would take 30 percent of the vote in the poll which excludes the undecided.
The same pollster showed a lead of 4.2 percent for Syriza in a previous survey last month whereas several opinion polls by various firms in recent days have all shown Syriza ahead but with a narrowing lead.
Here is a breakdown of recent opinion poll results:
Date Poll Syriza ND Potami GD KKE Pasok IG DL MDS
09/01 Rass 29.8 27.1 5.0 5.2 4.8 3.4 2.4 - 2.2
09/01 Metron 34.1 30.0 8.4 5.6 5.3 4.1 3.5 - 2.8
*
07/01 *Pulse 30.5 27 6.0 6.0 5.5 6.0 3.0 - 2.5
07/01 GPO 28.5 25.3 5.8 5.4 5.7 5.0 2.7 - 2.6
07/01 *Alco 33.8 30.5 4.5 4.4 4.1 3.9 2.4 - 2.7
04/01 Rass 30.4 27.3 4.7 3.8 4.8 3.5 2.5 - -
30/12 UOM 29.5 25 5.0 6.0 5.0 4.0 3.0 0.5 -
29/12 Marc 28.1 25.1 6.1 5.9 5.4 4.6 3.0 1.0 -
28/12 Alco 30.3 26.7 4.7 5.6 4.5 4.9 3.2 - -
28/12 Kapa 27.2 24.7 5.8 5.5 5.8 6.1 2.5 - -
23/12 Marc 28.3 24.8 5.8 5.7 5.3 4.5 3.3 1.2 -
17/12 Marc 28.5 24.9 5.6 5.8 5.6 4.8 3.0 1.4 -
15/12 GPO 28.0 23.1 5.1 5.0 5.5 5.1 2.7 - -
15/12 MRB 24.3 20.3 5.7 4.5 5.0 5.5 2.8 1.5 -
* Poll result excludes abstaining voters to project how the poll data would translate into an actual vote result.
ND: conservative New Democracy party
Syriza: Radical Left Coalition party
GD: far-right Golden Dawn party
IG: right-wing Independent Greeks party
PASOK: Socialist party
KKE: Communist party
DL: Democratic Left party
MDS: Movement of Democratic Socialists
UOM: University of Macedonia