The Latest Polls Shows Greek Elections Are on a Knife Edge

New Democracy takes the lead for the first time

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras during a vote in parliament in Athens, on Aug. 14.

Photographer: Yorgos Karahalis/Bloomberg
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The difference between the two parties in the latest polls published in Athens shows the country's Sept. 20 election is too close to call.

Greece's main opposition New Democracy party would get 25.3 percent of the total vote if elections were held now, leading for the first time over former Prime Minister Alexis Tsipra's Syriza party, which would get 25 percent of the vote, according to voting intention poll by GPO broadcast on Mega TV.