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Greece's Syriza to win election but face setback, poll shows
Former Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras' leftist Syriza will emerge as the biggest party after next month's election but without the sizeable margin it was hoping for, the first major opinion poll since he resigned last week showed. The poll also found that almost two thirds of voters felt Tsipras should not have sought a fresh mandate and that his favoured coalition ally would not make it into parliament, suggesting his gamble to call early elections to consolidate his power base could backfire. Syriza was supported by 23 percent of those polled, with the conservative New Democracy party second on 19.5 percent, ... (full story)