Opinion poll shows narrow difference between 'Yes' and 'No' vote in Sunday referendum

Gazzetta team 3 Ιουλίου 2015 - 19:56

Greeks are almost evenly split between a vote of 'Yes' and 'No' in Sunday's referendum, according to a Public Issue opinion poll published on Friday. The poll was conducted between June 30 and July 2 for the Sunday edition of "Avghi".

Those intending to vote 'No' were marginally ahead by 43 pct, while 42.5 pct intend to vote 'Yes', 9 pct are undecided, 3.5 pct say they will not vote, 1 pct will cast a spoilt/blank vote and another 1 pct replied don't know/won't answer.

Asked to predict which result will prevail, regardless of how they intend to vote themselves, 39 pct forecast a 'No' win, 50 pct expected that 'Yes' will win and 11 pct expressed no opinion.

A 54 pct majority disagree with the decision to call a referendum, 42 pct agrees, 1 pct has no opinion and 2 pct said that it neither agrees nor disagrees.

In terms of qualititative data, the research showed that 44 pct of men will vote 'Yes' and 44 pct will vote 'No' while 41 pct of women will vote 'Yes' and 42 pct will vote 'No'.

The 'No' vote is predominates among the 18-24 age group, with 71 pct opting for 'No' and 20 pct opting for 'Yes', while support for 'No' drops to 59 pct among the 25-34 age group, with 26 pct intending to vote 'Yes'.

In the 35-44 age group, 53 pct support 'Yes' and 34 pct support 'No' and in the 45-54 age group support for 'No' is at 48 pct and for 'Yes' at 36 pct. For those aged 55-64, 'Yes' predominates at 47 pct, compared with 44 pct for 'No' while for those over 65, support for 'No' drops to 26 pct and 'Yes' rises to 56 pct.

Broken down by area, the split between the Yes-No votes was 45-40 in Athens, 39-44 in Thessaloniki and 42-45 in the rest of Greece.