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From: Antenna Radio <http://www.antenna.gr> - email: antenna@compulink.gr

News in English, of 16/09/1996

TITLES

• The leaders of the top two parties on a TV debate.
• the candidates stack up according to this week's polls.
• Antenna's broadcast of the Greek basketball's anniversary.
• Antenna Internet will provide the election results through its web page the night of Sunday 22nd of September.
• See also the_Exit poll_that ALCO will perform for Antenna, in which there will be a prediction of the results as soon as the polls will close for countdown.

DEBATE

Prime minister Kostas Simitis and the main opposition party's leader Miltiades Evert answered twelve questions posed by three journalists, referring to Greece's foreign and internal issues, to the course of the country's economy as well as to the ruling perspectives of each one of the two parties.

Another journalist coordinated the debate, which was presented following the American TV debate standards that Antenna was the first Greek station to present.

The coordinator of the debate as well as the other three journalists were selected unanimously by reps of the parties.

This debate has been considered as a highly important political event a week before the elections, as the recent polls which were published, have shown that the top two parties are neck and neck.

The pre-election period will end next week, by the parties last rallies in Athens and Thessaloniki.

POLLS

Two surveys - one conducted for a newspaper, the other for a TV station - both come up with the same result: Pasok and New Democracy are in a dead heat going into the final stretch.

POLL ALKO

The top two parties are neck and neck, with New Democracy being first, with 31.2 per cent, and Pasok following with 30.5 per cent. The percentage of the undecided voters is quite high, 13.5 per cent, something that proves the first polls estimations that the political scene after September 22nd will most probably be determined by the undecided ones!

As for the rest of the parties, the Democratic Movement of Dimitris Tsovolas appeared as the third party, with 5.3 per cent, Political Spring got 4.3, Left Coalition 4.1 and the Communist party 4 per cent. 1.9 per cent of the questioned voters said they would vote for another party, while 4.4 would go for the blank ballots. A 0.8 per cent refused to answer the poll.

ALKO's manager Kostas Panagopoulos also showed the poll's results concerning the parties where the undecided voters come from, in comparison to what they had voted in the previous elections, three years ago. 42 per cent of the undecided voters come from Pasok, while 21 per cent from New Democracy, 6 per cent from Political Spring and 3 per cent from the Left Coalition. There are 7 per cent of new voters and 8 per cent said they wouldn't vote.

SIMITIS

Outlining his foreign policy plans for the country for another Pasok term of office, Kostas Simitis says international public opinion has shifted Greece's way when it comes to Greek-Turkish relations.

EVERT REPLY

Evert responded to the prime minister with a press conference of his own later in the day.

CYPR/TURK.SOLD.

Turkey has accused the Greek-Cypriots of being behind the shootings, which left one of the soldiers dead. But the British authorities say the shots were fired from Turkish-occupied territory.

Greek leaders say the shootings were an act of Turkish provocation.

CYPRUS/AKIN

On Tuesday, Turkish-Cypriot soldiers attempted to occupy a sentry post in the neutral zone of Nicosia, which it had abandoned 1989. However, the Turks were stopped by UN peacekeepers.

WILL

The Court granted probate to both of them, because their content is not controversial. However, the first one includes quite strong words against Andreas Papandreou's son-in-law, Thodoros Katsanevas, and tender words about his wife, Dimitra.

B/BALL CELEBR.

The MVP award was given to Giorgos Sigalas, and the first scorer was Mitchell Wiggins. Byron Dickins, Harold Davis, Alexis Papadatos, Angelos Koronios, Panagiotis Fassoulas and Giorgos KarAgoutis were some of the best players who offered unforgettable moments to basketball lovers on Greek and foreign courts last season.

The teams of Panathinaikos and Olympiakos were awarded for winning respectively the European and Greek Championships.

All of the sports officials and teams' presidents who attended the awarding ceremony expressed their best wishes for the new year.

Antenna's president Minos Kyriakou reassured that Antenna will stand by Greek basketball in the near future, as it has done in the past. He said, "I believe we will prove what Antenna means and how it can promote Greek basketball for the next two years, because Greece deserves it".

© ANT1-Radio 1996

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