Voters like Papademos but not his government - The Best from Greece

Voters like technocrat Prime Minister Lucas Papademos but deeply distrust his coalition government made up of career politicians, two polls showed on Friday.

 

Papademos' popularity rose to 60 percent in December from 55 percent last month, according to a survey by pollster Public Issue published in the newspaper Kathimerini.

 

But voters distrust Papademos' 49-member cabinet consisting of party politicians from the former ruling Pasok, the conservative New Democracy and the rightist Popular Othodox Rally (Laos) parties.

 

More than 80 percent of respondents said they were dissatisfied with the government, according to Public Issue, which conducted a telephone survey of 1,008 people between December 1-5.

 

In a separate poll by Metron Analysis published in newspaper Eleftheros Typos, just 32 percent of respondents said they had a positive view of Papademos' government, even though the premier himself was the country's most popular political figure.

 

.	Pollster	Media	Published	Pasok	ND	KKE	Syriza	Laos	Dem. Left

.	Public Issue*	Kathimerini	09/12/2011	15.5	30	13.5	14	6	9.5
.	Metron Analysis*	Eleftheros Typos	09/12/2011	17.1	29.3	13.6	10.7	9.2	5.9
.	GPO		05/12/2011	15.3	21.5	10	6.1	7.1	6.3
.	Alco		18/11/2011	11.8	21.2	8	5.7	5.2	6.3
.	Alco*		18/11/2011	14.8	26.7	10.1	7.2	6.5	7.9
.	VPRC*		17/11/2011	18.5	32	12.5	10	7	6.5
.	Public Issue*		13/11/2011	19.5	28.5	11	12	8.5	7.5
.	MRB*		13/11/2011	18.1	33.1	11	8.8	7.1	7.5
.	Public Issue*		06/10/2011	22.5	31.5	10.5	9.5	9	5
.	GPO		26/09/2011	15.5	22.3	9.8	4.8	7.9
.	Alco		25/09/2011	15.5	21.3	7.4	5	5.6
.	Pulse		25/09/2011	15.5	21.5
.	VPRC*		07/09/2011	24.5	30
.	Public Issue*		14/07/2011	26.5	32.5
.	VPRC*		14/07/2011	25.5	29.5
.	MRB		24/06/2011	20.8	22.9
.	GPO		21/06/2011	20.1	21
.	Alco		21/06/2011	19.6	21.3
.	Public Issue*		11/06/2011	27	31
.	Pulse		28/05/2011	19	19.5