The blood did not reach the river. United We Can, despite having been critical in recent weeks of the drift of the Center for Sociological Research (CIS) and the bias favorable to the PSOE of its president, José Félix Tezanos, rejected this Tuesday in Congress the initiative of the Popular Party so that the institution is headed by a professor without any kind of political affiliation.
Just three weeks ago, the minority member of the government coalition denounced an “alleged manipulation” by the CIS in the last monthly barometer to “modify the vote estimate for Unidas Podemos downwards.” An accusation with which the purples joined the criticism from the opposition parties, which since the beginning of the legislature point to the “erosion” of the body as a result of Tezanos’s cooking.
However, Unidas Podemos chose this Tuesday not to stand out in Congress and reject the PP bill, called by some groups the “anti-Tezanos clause”, which urged “reinforcing the mechanisms” to assert that the leader of the CIS is neutral and to recover the credibility of the institution, since “nobody believes its estimates anymore”, as José Antonio Bermúdez de Castro, the people’s deputy in charge of defending an initiative that did not go ahead, recalled, but it was worth it for all the groups, with the exception of the PSOE, pointed out the lack of credibility of the CIS.
“The errors of the CIS”, explained Bermúdez de Castro, “are not innocent”, but rather “they hide behind a clear political intention to create a climate of favorable opinion at a time when Sanchismo is in the doldrums”. A thesis that was defended by the vast majority of parties in the Chamber, despite the fact that many chose not to vote in favor of the proposal, understanding, as Genís Boadella, from PDeCAT, slipped, that the model outlined by the PP could lead to a new blockade in Congress in the image and likeness of what happens in judicial matters.
United We Can, in any case, recognized that “the CIS sweeps home” in many of its polls, in relation to the dynamics contrary to that of the average of private pollsters that it has followed for several years. In fact, the deputy Chema Guijarro described as “interesting and even debatable” some of the points that the PP text put on the table, such as that the name proposed by the Council of Ministers be endorsed in Congress, although this may give foot to new blocking situations.
Of course, Guijarro called the regime of incompatibilities designed by the popular “artificial” and recalled that a good part of the CIS presidents during the PP mandates, despite not having a party card, had a direct relationship with the formation: ” They were more his than the seagull.” Hours before, the purple conglomerate had already slipped that its position, although it was critical of the CIS, had little to do with the measure that the PP brought to Congress and that it responds, according to Guijarro, to his “obsession” with Tezanos.
“You take turns in power,” he said, on behalf of Vox José María Sánchez to stage that the attitude of the PP and the PSOE is identical when they reach the Government, where they conveniently locate their supporters and those close to them. For this reason, he said, this proposal is for those of Santiago Abascal “a nonsense that does not convince anyone.” He did point out, despite everything and in line with popular denunciation, that the CIS “always responds to the occasional need of the president and his party”, which plunges the institution into a “lack of seriousness and moral scruple”.
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