Most Greeks Pessimistic About Economy in 2016: Poll

Athens: Most Greeks are pessimistic and anxious about their country's economic situation in 2016, a poll showed on Saturday.

Up to 81.4 per cent of the respondents said they were pessimistic about the country's course in 2016, Xinhua cited an opinion poll as saying.

In addition, 63 per cent of the participants in the survey, which was conducted by polling firm MRB, expected the Greek economic situation to get worse, while 51 per cent of them predicted a year of decline for their own households.

As to the Greek debt crisis that has blighted the country and the eurozone for several years, 42.8 per cent and 32.4 per cent of those surveyed expressed anxiety and anger respectively, said the poll.

In contrast, only about 30 per cent of the respondents showed positive sentiments, like hope, confidence, pride and certainty, in the survey.