By Magda Panoutsopoulou
ATHENS
Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, the leader of Greece's New Democracy party, held his party's final pre-election campaign event Friday.
“The best is coming and the worst is that which we do not want to come,” Samaras said at the beginning of his speech inside a packed gymnasium.
The rally comes just hours before early parliamentary elections take place with Samaras heavily criticizing the rival Syriza party's financial program as hurtful to the middle class.
Samaras said the majority of undecided voters want Greece to remain in the EU and "do not want adventures."
“We are more, we will go forward, let’s go,” he said. “Citizens are called upon to choose who they want as the captain at the helm during this difficult time.”
The failure to elect a new president in last December's voting triggered early national elections in Greece.
The latest opinion polls show the Syriza party ahead of the New Democracy party by at least 5.2 percent.
A decree calling for new elections was posted on the House of Parliament in Athens on Dec. 31, 2014 with national elections set for Jan. 25, 2015.
