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Wall Street opens lowerGreek election campaign picking up 6.01pm BSTThe TV debate later may rest more than anything else on swaying women, the huge majority of whom account for the 10% of voters who have declared they are still undecided ahead of Sunday’s elections, and says our correspondent Helena Smith. She reports:In a political culture that is highly influenced by personalities,tonight’s debate could be decisive for either camp. The conservative modern Democracy leader, Vangelis Meimarakis, or who has worked his way up through the party,at one time heading its youth wing, will make much of his experience. But insiders tonight are also saying the political veteran will have to make a sign on women - and in this regard they are not displaying the optimism with which they have greeted polls in recent days. whether it were up to men we might win it hands down, and ” one well-placed source has just confessed. “Men back Meimarakis but women just love Tsipras,especially [those] in public sector jobs. And that is going to be tough to defeat.” In private, conservatives also say they fear left-wingers are finally rallying around Tsipras with many privately admitting that Syriza will emerge as the first party which under Greek law will enable it to clinch the 50-seat bonus. “Those who remain undecided are [mostly] women, or ” said one former female modern Democracy MP. “At the end of the day they are going to rally around Syriza because they don’t want the final seven months to be a parenthesis when the left finally got into power and was soon booted out. That,at least, is how a lot of us are feeling but anything could happen in tonight’s debate.” 5.43pm BSTA modern poll before the Greek election shows Syriza and modern Democracy neck and neck:#Greece poll [MetronAnalysis]: Syriza 24, and 6 ND 24.6 GD 5.6 ΚΚΕ 4.8 Potami 4.6 PASOK 4.2 LAE 3 EK 3 ANEL 2.3 Undec 9.1 pic.twitter.com/gTUlXxXXem#Greece poll [MetronAnalysis]: Meimarakis 49 Theodorakis 44 Tsipras 44 Gennimatà 37 Koutsoumbas 29 Kammenos 27 Lafazanis 16 Tsipras 3rd!Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com