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The election day in the majority of the total 19,449 polling stations in Greece is passing normally. There were minor problems in some isolated areas due to bad weather. The activity of voters is increasing as the day is passing by.

Shortly after 11:00 am, Minister of Interior Michalis Theocharidis assured that the problems in some sections owing to court representatives being late in coming were due to unfavourable weather conditions and were immediately resolved.

Theocharidis thanked the national operations centre of the General Staff of the Greek defence for having provided a Super Puma helicopter to transport a court representative from Chania to Agia Roumeli, Crete.

The polling stations in the municipalities of Grigori and Elatovrisi in the mountainous region of Nafpaktos which were cut off because of heavy snow, opened with a four-hour delay, shortly after 11:15 am.

Machines were cleaning the roads thus enabling the court representatives to get to the polls in order for the election day to begin.

Cleaning machines were mobilized in the mountainous regions of Epirus, where it snowed yesterday. The movement of voters to the polling stations is normal. At a polling station in Pogoni, Ioannina region, a court representative who has declared that she is ill has been replaced.

Some polling stations are suffering from the absence of the full composition of the election commission members. At some sections, the voting is taking place in the absence of commission members and of court representatives and the commission secretary at others, and with the help of members of adjacent sections.

Meanwhile, a representative of Golden Dawn has been attacked at a school in Kalipoli in Piraeus. The perpetrator has escaped. He had entered the polling station and hit the representative of Golden Dawn, slightly wounding him.

Another member of Golden Dawn, a candidate for deputy, said that 10 people had attacked him at a polling station in Petroupoli.

Unknown persons damaged the electoral pavilion of Antarsia on Kropias Street in Petroupoli.