The president of the Center for Sociological Research (CIS), José Félix Tezanos, justified that his surveys always hit the mark, although they are not a sociological instrument that does not “measure exactly”. Tezanos celebrated the fact that the organization he leads is “independent” … and that he “never” received “any indication from Moncloa”. Responding to the commission of inquiry into the management of the CEI in the Senate, the former member of the Federal Executive Commission of the PSOE experienced first-hand the usual treatment in the commissions of the Lower House: direct and harsh confrontation with the Popular Party and Vox while the left parties carry out a comfortable interrogation of the people mentioned.
Paloma Gómez, of the Vox parliamentary group, was quick to use her minutes to ask why a person belonging to a political party came to lead a public body and why she believes that her work is so criticized. Tezanos said that the criticisms against the CEI are of a “political” nature, because it has always been the one that has been “closest” to the electoral results without receiving “any indication from Moncloa.”
After that, the president of the public body confirmed that his work had always “hit the mark” during the legislative elections and that this had earned him “complaints from far-right groups for having done things with so much precision”. Gómez, after this explanation and aware of Tezanos’ political past, wondered why Pedro Sánchez, president of the government, “does not believe that he is calling elections” knowing that the results are so positive for the PSOE. “In serious countries, we call them from time to time. Polls allow us to know the state of public opinion,” Tezanos said. The Vox senator called for the resignation of the president of the CEI, although he recalled that he “depends” on the government and that he is 79 years old, so sooner or later he will leave his post.
The popular senator directly attacked Tezanos over his leadership against the CIS. First, he accused the former socialist of attacking Isabel Díaz Ayuso’s voters by calling them “tabernarians” in 2021, Tezanos apologized saying that it was not “an insult”, but a “disqualification” and declared that as a person “he is not independent”. After that, the popular distorted the real subject of the commission and asked questions about Pedro Sánchez Leire Díaz, José Luis Ábalos or Santos Cerdán. Tezanos accused the People’s Party of not acting in a “democratic” manner and compared the interrogation methods to the “inquisition.” After that, he confirmed that he had “already” seen Leire, who was Paco Salazar’s teacher, he refused to talk about his relationship with Sánchez and confessed that he does not remember receiving a daily allowance from Ferraz.
Tezanos, in order to defend himself from the attacks of the PP, showed several posters to the senators. In the first we could read: “It is one thing to have parliamentary immunity, another to have impunity to attack and slander”. The second said: “88 entered the soto del real, 87 from the PP and one from the PSOE.” “Sectarian, he has been piqued to the point that the ideology comes out,” replied the popular.
On behalf of the Left Parliamentary Group for Independence, Jordi Gaseni, and on behalf of the Socialist Parliamentary Group, José Javier Roncero, they conducted a relaxed interrogation during which they asked questions about the methods of the CEI to carry out the surveys and about the absence of questions about the Monarchy in the barometers.
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