Macedonia University poll gives Greece's Syriza small lead in election run-up

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's leftist Syriza party has a 1 percentage point lead over its conservative rival New Democracy, a poll published on Friday showed. The poll by the University of Macedonia said Syriza would secure 28.5 percent of the vote in a national election on Sept. 20 and New Democracy would get 27.5 percent. The far-right Golden Dawn party placed third with 7 percent. (Reporting by Karolina Tagaris; editing by John Stonestreet)