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Two days before the elections in Greece, we summarize the results of our poll whereby we consulted you about your expectations of the early vote.

The largest group, 39%, among our Bulgarian version readership, believe that SYRIZA will be able to form a cabinet on their own. Another 29% believe that, despite his pre-election rhetoric, Tsipras is going to sign the next memorandum with creditors. 18% of our readers see a coalition government between SYRIZA and New Democracy as the inevitable result of the elections. Next comes the curt ‘GREXIT’ response, chosen by 10% of our readership. Only half of them, 5%, share the hope that the Greek parliament is going to cleanse itself of extreme right-wingers like Golden Dawn.

But the readers of our English version have yielded different results. 30% of them project a gap between Tsipras’ pre-election rhetoric and his tack as an eventual prime minister when he will sign the next memorandum with creditors. Those, who believe that SYRIZA will be able to form their own government, are only 2% less – 28%. Third come the readers who see a coalition government between SYRIZA and New Democracy as inevitable. ‘GREXIT’ as a response is more popular among this fraction of readers and was given by 16% of them. But our English readers are even less optimistic about the parliament freeing itself of ultranationalists: only 4% of them indicated they believed in such an outcome.

The readership of GRReporter’s Greek language version has also chosen the option of a SYRIZA one-party government as the most likely one, with 37% having voted for it. Similar to our Bulgarian readers, 27% argue that Tsipras is going to backtrack on his pre-election promises and sign the memorandum with creditors. Our Greek readers most vividly see the spectre of GREXIT, with a whopping 20% behind this option. But only 12% of them see the likelihood of a SYRIZA-New Democracy coalition government. As with the other two groups, the expectation that the next Greek parliament will rid itself of the extreme right-wingers is rather weak, accounting for only 5% of the vote.

The elections and their results will be the focus of debate in the coming days. Once the outcome is clear and the government is formed, it will have to grapple with a slew of urgent and crucial problems, which have hijacked the Greek agenda.

In our next poll, we would like to know what you think about an unresolved issue in the Balkans: do you believe that the next Greek government is going to solve the dispute about the name of the Republic of Macedonia?