Deviations of various polls, against the backdrop of a difference of 20 percentage points N.D. against SYRIZA, which was allocated by the ballot box, MRB Managing Director Dimitris Mavros was asked to comment, stating that a “simple weighting” of the data produced the same pre-election result.

“A simple, simplistic weighting of the data worked,” Mr. Mavros replied, stating that polling data from the last few days, weighted by gender, age, region and previous vote, yielded N . D. 42% central price and SYRIZA 19%.

He explained his position by many years of pressure: “The truth is that when from 2015 to the present you are under pressure at the moral, methodological, scientific, communicative level from a certain area, this is where you start, and you also have some these are signs that you are underestimating one party or another,” he said, citing September 2015 as an example.

“Then you start talking so that I can see if it’s not exaggerated, if I’m understating again (…), as a result data is not removed from us, we tend to move away from data because we experienced post-traumatic shock from previous situations (…) When you hear about a criminal record based on polls, when you hear about buckets and a situation is created (….), if we came out like that, we would be told that these samples should be thrown away. Throw them out. How would we react in the run-up to the elections?”