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Athens News Agency: News in English, 09-07-12
CONTENTS
[01] Opinion poll
[02] Arrests of people traffickers, illegal migrants
[03] Investigation ordered into alleged bribe of prison guard by inmate
[01] Opinion poll
Main opposition PASOK was leading by 5.3 percentage points over ruling
New Democracy, while respondents appeared split on whether early
general elections should be called, according to an opinion poll
conducted by MARC, the results of which appeared in the Sunday edition
of Ethnos newspaper.
More specifically, with respect to voter intent, 34.5 percent of the
respondents said they would vote for PASOK if elections were held the
following Sunday, against 29.2 percent for ND, 7.1 percent for the
Communist Party of Greece (KKE), 3.6 percent for the Coalition of the
Radical Left (SYRIZA parliamentary alliance), 5.8 percent for the
Popular Orthodox Rally (LAOS) and 3.0 percent for the
Ecologists-Greens, while the invalid/undecided vote exceeded 15
percent.
Asked whether early general elections sould be called, 40.8 percent of
the respondents said elections should be held immediately or in the
autumn, whereas 39.4 percent wanted elections at the end of the ND
government's current four-year term, while 15.7 percent opted for March
when parliament was due to vote for a new President of the Republic.
[02] Arrests of people traffickers, illegal migrants
Four people traffickers were arrested, and 25 illegal migrants,
including six minors, were detained on Saturday in the wider region of
Thessaloniki during a coordinated operation by Alexandroupolis police
and the Thessaloniki police's illegal migration unit.
The illegal immigrants, who were headed for Athens, had in the early
morning hours sneaked across the border into the Soufli region, where
they were spotted by authorities, however, and placed under discrete
surveillance.
A 34-year-old Greek man and three foreign nationals who were conveying
the illegal migrants were arrested, and their cars were seized.
[03] Investigation ordered into alleged bribe of prison guard by inmate
Justice minister Nikos Dendias has ordered a Disciplinary Preliminary
Investigation, following reports on a television news program, into the
alleged case of a Larissa Prison guard receiving a bribe from an
inmate, it was announced on Sunday.
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