Most people in Greece prefer using the euro as currency and favor a deal with the country’s international creditors amid standoff over the Greek bailout program, two opinion polls show.

The Greeks' preference for the euro and an agreement with the country’s lenders was reflected in the results of polls conducted by Alco research and opinion polling company and Greek Kapa Research.

As much as 57 percent of the participants in the study by Alco said they believed Greece should make a deal with its lenders while 29 percent favored Grexit.

Moreover, 47.2 percent of the respondents to the Kapa survey voted in favor of an agreement with Greece's creditors, 33 percent opposed and 18.4 percent were undecided.

The polls were carried out nationwide from June 24 to 26 and their results were published on Sunday.

The development came a day after the head of the European Council called on Greek leaders to avoid leaving the eurozone. European Council along with the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund are Greece's international creditors.

"Greece is and should remain euro area member," Donald Tusk  said on Saturday following a meeting of eurozone finance ministers in Brussels, during which they refused to extend Greece's bailout funds ahead of a looming Greek debt default.

Athens has been struggling to borrow on international markets over the past few years. It has presented a list of reforms needed to restart bailout loan payments, but the creditors have described Greece's proposals as insufficient and called for tougher austerity measures.

In 2010 and 2012, Greece received two bailout packages worth a total of €240 billion (USD 272 billion) from its creditors following the 2009 economic crisis.

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