ATHENS, Dec. 9 (Xinhua) -- Most Greek citizens still struggle to make ends meet, are worried about developments across the EU and would prefer to see early elections in Greece in 2019, according to a survey released on Sunday.

Even though Greece exited the bailout programs era this summer, after eight years, 52 percent of respondents in the poll conducted by polling firm Kapa Research for local "Ethnos" (Nation) newspaper said that they were still covering their households' needs with difficulty.

The issues which concern Greeks most are: the creation of job positions (49 percent), economic growth (39 percent) and corruption (28 percent) according to the survey.

Moreover, respondents said that they also were concerned about the social insurance funds (23 percent), improvement of the health system (22 percent ) and the refugee-migrant issue (21 percent).

The 63 percent of respondents appear concerned that in 2019 the overall situation within the EU will be worse compared to 2018.

The 62 percent of participants in the poll also said that they would prefer the conduction of snap general elections in Greece.

The current government's term ends in September 2019.

Should elections were held this weekend, the main opposition conservative New Democracy party would win with 25 percent of votes, while the now ruling Radical Left SYRIZA would follow second with 20.3 percent.

The far-right Chryssi Avghi (Golden Dawn), the socialist Movement for Change and the communist party KKE would also enter the parliament garnering respectively 7.9 percent, 6.4 percent and 5.6 percent of votes. Enditem

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