MADRID, 8 May. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The president of the Sociological Research Center (CIS), José Félix Tezanos, has attacked the Popular Party for the “dirty war” and “harassment” that in his opinion it practices against the demographic institute that he presides, while at the same time he has questioned the file of the Central Electoral Board (JEC) for the ‘flash survey’ carried out after the announcement of Pedro Sánchez’s reflection by ensuring that he does not adhere to “the principle of legality” and even slipping that there may be bias in this agreement.
In statements to RNE, collected by Europa Press, Tezanos has criticized the group led by Alberto Núñez Feijóo for the reproaches of his management in the CIS – the PP announced that it will take him to court for “partisan use” – after the file because, in his opinion, it reveals “a lack of knowledge of current legislation.” “At this moment, are there laws in Spain that prohibit surveys?” he questioned, while emphasizing that there is no call for general elections that legally prevents him from knowing the opinion of citizens on a significant event, such as the continuity of the President of the Government.
Tezanos, who recalled that the current JEC is in office because “her mandate already ended” when the last elections were held, has defended the request to the State Attorney’s Office to present a contentious administrative appeal against the agreement of the arbitration body. As he has insisted, Sánchez’s reflection was a “singular event” and as president of the CIS he felt the obligation “without any instructions or suggestions” to do a survey to ask Spaniards.
Thus, he explained that before the ‘flash’ survey the organization commissioned a pilot survey “as a rigorous study has to be done” and then the results were finally published with transparency for all citizens. “It is not prohibited to conduct surveys or communicate them, or ask for authorization, because there are no general elections called,” she claimed.
Asked if he believes that the JEC agreement reflects a biased position, the president of the CIS responded affirmatively and added that “at some point” he is going to write about this issue. “I think he was not adhering to the principle of legality,” he concluded.
In his criticism of the PP, Tezanos has regretted that the party uses “a policy of dirty war, of harassment and demolition, of attack”, which was, as he said, “the issue that was debated in that letter that the president made public Pedro Sánchez”. “It seems that they do not quite understand that they did not win the elections and they were given the opportunity to hold an investiture session, which they did not win because they did not have enough votes,” said the president of the CIS, who has also demanded to make a effort to “normalize political life, calm down and talk about important things.”
In this sense, and asked about the PP’s petition to the Court of Auditors asking for an audit report from the CIS, Tezanos has defended the “exemplary accounts” of the body he presides over. He has emphasized that one of the items that the ‘popular’ criticize was increased to hire pollsters with Tragsa and improve their conditions because, when he arrived at the demoscopic institute, the situation of this group of professionals was “very regular and they did not have contracts.” . “Whenever the PP has governed, it has lowered workers’ income and wages,” he reproached.
