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Edition: U.S. Article Comments (6) Follow Reuters Facebook Twitter RSS YouTube Read United deals with flight delays after outage 11:58am EDT Greeks protest, almost half oppose austerity | 2:27pm EDT Friendly Obama-Boehner golf game has high stakes | 1:55pm EDT Black hole shreds star, sparking gamma ray flash 12:05pm EDT Libyan rebels out of money, West to blame-oil chief | 2:03pm EDT Discussed 72 Republicans to debate, with Romney the frontrunner 47 Weiner tells friends he will resign: NY Times 43 IMF cuts U.S. growth forecast, warns of crisis Watched Airbus' view of flying in the future Mon, Jun 13 2011 Hefner, fiancee split; Schwarzenegger mistress talks Wed, Jun 15 2011 Cyber warfare heats up 2:54am EDT Almost half of Greek voters oppose austerity deal: poll Tweet Share this Email Print Related News Greek reshuffle, Berlin-Paris deal ease euro fears Fri, Jun 17 2011 WRAPUP 5-Greek reshuffle, Berlin-Paris deal ease euro fears Fri, Jun 17 2011 Greek PM dumps finance chief to try to survive Fri, Jun 17 2011 Greek PM reshuffles government, lenders dangle lifeline Fri, Jun 17 2011 Greek PM to name new cabinet, public seethes Thu, Jun 16 2011 Analysis & Opinion Key transatlantic contagion channel still open Why Chinaâ€™s support for Europe comes with a caveatâ€¦ Related Topics World » Protesters shout slogans in front of parliament during a rally against austerity economic measures and corruption in Athens' Syntagma (Constitution) square June 17, 2011. Credit: Reuters/John Kolesidis ATHENS | Sat Jun 18, 2011 1:44pm EDT ATHENS (Reuters) - Almost half of Greek voters want parliament to reject a package of harsh economic reforms that the government has agreed in return for a second international bailout to avoid default, according to an opinion poll. The poll, in Sunday's edition of To Vima newspaper, showed they also wanted Greece to hold early elections to replace the embattled government of Prime Minister George Papandreou. The survey was taken before Papandreou reshuffled his government on Friday in an attempt to stiffen resolve to hammer through the reforms. The European Union and International Monetary Fund have made the reforms a condition for a new emergency loan package worth an estimated 120 billion euros ($170 billion) that Greece will need to avoid bankruptcy and fund itself through 2014. In a nationwide survey of 1,208 voters, 47.5 percent of respondents said they wanted parliament to reject the reform package and for Greece to hold early elections. Just over a third -- 34.8 percent -- wanted it to be approved so Athens could receive a new loan tranche and secure the second bailout. Constantinos Routzounis, head of pollsters Kapa Research, said Greeks were not against austerity in itself but thought the reforms were unfairly aimed at the poor while wealthy tax evaders and corrupt politicians got off lightly. "People don't want Greece to exit the euro zone. They do want fiscal consolidation measures -- but more just ones," he told Reuters. Kapa conducted the survey on June 14-15. Papandreou announced a wholesale reshuffle on Friday in a move to quell open dissent in his ruling Socialist Party and push the measures through parliament in the face of weeks of protests that briefly erupted in violence last Wednesday. Just under 90 percent of those polled said they were not optimistic about the direction in which Greece was heading, but 80 percent favored being in the euro zone. Euro zone finance ministers are expected to agree on Sunday to release a 12 billion euro tranche of an existing, year-old bailout loan that Greece needs to pay back debt maturing in July and August. (Reporting by Renee Maltezou; Writing by Hugh Lawson; editing by Barry Moody) World Tweet this Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story through relevant opinion, anecdotes, links and data. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. Views expressed in the comments do not represent those of Reuters. For more information on our comment policy, see http://blogs.reuters.com/fulldisclosure/2010/09/27/toward-a-more-thoughtful-conversation-on-stories/ Comments (6) zentropy wrote: is this a joke? another part of the big lie reuters is telling europeans in france and germany that their governments are not totally screwing over the greek population by forcing the greek government to take money that the greek people don’t want? the europeans will do a good job at lying about their ‘strong’ democracy. but north africa and the middle east fire is spreading towards europe through the Mediterranean, the balkans, and eventually the baltics. first rioting then war. Jun 18, 2011 2:26pm EDT -- Report as abuse rbasher wrote: Would thisbe the half that leech off government programs that the productive working Greeks must pay excessive taxes to support? Jun 18, 2011 2:42pm EDT -- Report as abuse inverse137 wrote: With a dichotomy, “almsot half against” means more than half is in favor of…. 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