Ask the PP why he separated Casado if he won in all the other polls and criticizes pollsters who “work for a party”
MADRID, 19 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The president of the Center for Sociological Research (CIS), José Félix Tezanos, has defended this Wednesday his right to express “freely and without coercion” his opinion about the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, whom, as he has stressed, he has always treated “with respect” and “never” has “insulted”.
Tezanos has taken advantage of his appearance before the Budget Commission of Congress, where he has gone to explain the public accounts of the demographic institute for 2013, to reply to the criticism that the PP has dedicated to him for affirming that Feijóo has run out of “the moon honey” in the polls because he has made “mistakes” and people have begun to perceive that he lacks “the necessary knowledge” to lead his party.
The ‘popular’ José Antonio Bermúdez de Castro has thrown those “disqualifications” in his face. “I have expressed myself with respect, I have never insulted, but I can have opinions,” Tezanos replied.
“In a free society we have to have the freedom to be able to express those opinions without coercion because otherwise it puts us in a black tunnel of History that does not lead to anything good”, warned the president of the CIS.
In addition, the socialist sociologist has denied that the CIS has suffered a “discredit” since its arrival in 2018, no matter how much the right-wing parties maintain it, and has remarked that the center uses the “most rigorous method”, carries out the “studies most reliable” in Spain and is usually right in its electoral predictions.
And he has again contrasted the work of the “professionals” of the CIS with that of private companies that, in his opinion, “work for a party” that, on occasions, only have one person hired and that carry out studies that he considers “a joke in scientific terms” and “they always go in the same direction, not like those of the CIS”.
At this point, he recalled that the PP was ahead of the PSOE in terms of voting intentions in the June barometer and that Feijóo surpassed Sánchez in valuation, although the tables were later turned. He has also reiterated that the surveys are “elements of approximation to reality” and not “instruments of divination”.
That is why he has said that he does not understand that the PP insists on discussing the CIS polls. “Defending yourself from the polls is a bit strange,” he said, encouraging the “popular” to focus on making “interesting proposals for citizens and sectors that need it most” if they want to “attract votes.”
At another point in his speech, he asked the PP why they separated Pablo Casado from the leadership of the party if “he was doing so well and won in all the polls” outside the CIS. “Why did they replace him without having a jewel? Clarify it for him too,” she slipped.
In addition, he has indicated that “it is not true that all the polls say the opposite of the CIS” and has predicted that in a month there will be more that put the PSOE ahead of the PP because the CIS “anticipates trends.”
Tezanos has also replied to the reproaches he has heard from the mouth of the Vox deputy Carlos José Zambrano, who has made him ugly for jumping directly from the Executive Commission of the PSOE to the Presidency of the CIS, to “manipulate with public money the voting intention of the Spanish people”. “The only thing missing is to elevate President Sánchez to the statistical altars,” he has released.
The questioned has defended himself by boasting of his socialist militancy since the dictatorship. “I have been in jail for my ideas”, he has recalled, emphasizing that during the Franco regime you could have ideas but you were ordered not to express them. “Don’t go back to that logic,” he has claimed, rejecting the thesis that someone with a political ideology can be placed at the head of an institution.
“The next thing they are going to ask for, what will it be? That they appoint ministers without ideas?” He asked himself, claiming his right to express himself as long as he does not “mix” his positions with “investigation.” “We must know how to differentiate, not let ourselves be intoxicated and freely express our ideas,” she insisted.
