The Greeks will vote for a new legislature on September 20 after Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’ resignation in August paved way for the polls.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The EU refugee crisis could influence the results of the snap election in Greece, a member of the left-wing Greek Syriza party told Sputnik on Wednesday.

"Of course [it could affect the outcome of the elections]. Many people think that we, Syriza, open the doors to the refugees, they see all those refugees on the islands and say Syriza is responsible. But actually it is a European problem," Sia Anagnostopoulou said.

Anagnostopoulou, the former Greek alternate minister for European affairs and the candidate in the Greek parliamentary elections, added that Syriza had a special refugee program and had already taken primary measures to handle the crisis.

"It [Syriza] has already created reception centers for the refugees, where people can register and say where they want to go, because for the most part they do not want to stay in Greece. The Syriza government also made pressure on the European Union to create a common [refugee] policy,” the politician stressed.

Greece is one of a number of EU member states that has found itself in the middle of an unprecedented migrant crisis. Earlier in the day, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said estimates suggest that there were some 200,000 migrants in Greece.

"Syriza government urges Europe to urgently create a policy, which would oblige all the member-states share this responsibility," Sia Anagnostopoulou said.

She added that Greece, serving as "the first entry door" for migrants, bears the brunt of the crisis due to the lack of a common European policy on the issue.

"The number of the refugees is huge, but if they are distributed among all the cities in Europe, the number becomes small, it is enormous if all these people are in one country," Anagnostopoulou stressed.