Less than three months after a 57 people died in a train crash in central Greece that many believe could have been avoided, the race in which Kyriakos Mitsotakis's centre-right government is defending its majority is tighter than expected. And with surveys predicting as much as 13% of the 8.5 million-strong electorate still undecided every vote counts.
"Because the train was full of students returning from vacation, the accident unleashed a huge emotional reaction among that segment of the population," said the veteran political commentator Pavlos Tzimas. "And women and young Greeks account for a sizeable proportion of the undecided bloc." In the more than 40 years since Tzimas began observing general elections in Greece, the run-up to Sunday's poll marked the first time, he said, that political party leaders had sought to get on lifestyle TV talkshows that were popular with both groups. "Their vote could make a difference and politicians are nervous about what they will do," he told the Guardian.
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