Greeks are voting in the country's first post-bailout parliamentary elections, with opinion polls indicating that the conservatives could topple leftist Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and his Syriza party.
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The New Democracy party, led by Kyriakos Mitsotakis, is tipped to win around 36 per cent of the vote versus 27 per cent for Syriza. That would reflect results seen in recent months in the European Parliament and local elections.
Defeats in those polls forced Tsipras to move the parliamentary elections forward by around three months.
He is seeking a third term, although the first one lasted just as few months, from the January 2015 election until snap polls were called later that year in September amid the turmoil of the Greek financial crisis.
Greece's third and final bailout expired in August and the country has since returned to the markets for financing, but years of austerity, pursued at the demands of creditors, have angered the nation, which appears to be ready to elect a new leader.
A diplomatic agreement with North Macedonia, on renaming the former Yugoslav republic, formerly called Macedonia, may have further contributed to Tsipras' drop in popularity, even if it earned him a co-nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Australian Associated Press
