CIS: Tezanos affirms that the PP mobilized in Galicia with “gratifications to the shellfish harvesters” and “nuns organizing the vote” | Spain

The president of the Center for Sociological Research (CIS), José Félix Tezanos, affirms that the fear of the popular people of losing their absolute majority in Galicia last 18-F – as several surveys, including the CIS, pointed out in the last week of the campaign ― set off alarms “in the ranks of the PP” and unleashed “enormous activism” with “extraordinary economic rewards to the shellfish harvesters, messages sent to health personnel promising salary and organizational improvements” and “nuns organizing the vote of their asylum seekers and inmates” . The regional PP has called for the resignation of Tezanos for “insulting” and “treating Galicians like fools.”

The president of the CIS includes these impressions in an article published in the magazine Themes, of which he is director, in which he analyzes the Galician elections and reflects on the political crossroads for the upcoming events in the Basque Country and Catalonia. In the text, Tezanos considers that the victory of the PP in Galicia has been “clear”, “a logical and expected fact” and of “full legitimacy”. Despite this, it also affects that the difference between left and right has been less than two points (1.78), with a total of 49.55% of the votes obtained by PP and Vox, compared to 47.77 % for the BNG, PSdeG and the other left-wing parties. And it emphasizes that the national leaders were involved in a “dissimilar” way. The time dedicated by Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who was president of the

Since the arrival of Tezanos – a former member of the PSOE Executive – to the presidency of the CIS more than five years ago, the PP and other parties have criticized the electoral projections of the official institute, considering them “partisan or biased” in favor of Pedro Sánchez . Last December, the Government confirmed him in his position. Feijóo has even accused him of “bordering on embezzlement” for using public money to “produce a false effect in the polls.”

Tezanos’s article, titled New crossroads and electoral trends, has been published in a medium belonging to the Sistema Foundation, linked to the PSOE. In the text, the sociology professor considers that in the campaign he has once once more publicly shown the overattention to pre-election surveys, and attributes this “biased” way of conducting and publishing surveys to “a specific strategy of the PP in the periods of Casado and of Feijóo”. He also takes the opportunity to defend himself once morest the journalistic “catch-alls” regarding the CIS during the electoral campaign, with headlines such as “all polls except the CIS of Tezanos give the PP the winner.” “CIS surveys always present more nuances than some ‘uninformed’ opinion leaders maintain,” he alleges.

The PP, “propitiator of tension”

Regarding voting trends, the president of the CIS concludes, “pending more precise sociological data,” that “the conservative vote is declining among young people, women, residents of urban environments and among sectors of the enlightened middle classes.” ” and that Feijóo’s PP is seen in these sectors as “a party that promotes tension and bad political manners.” “What is happening with Feijóo and his team is not only a matter of exaggerated tension, but certain sectors of the temperate middle class are seeing not only the ‘bad manners’ but also the ‘bad education.’ Something that worries educated and Europeanized sectors of the middle classes,” writes Tezanos.

What affects the most is what happens closest. So you don’t miss anything, subscribe.

The president of the CIS also considers that “the main problem of the PP in many places and at a general level is that it has closed – largely self-closed – its political options to form alternative government majorities”, due to its dependence on Vox, and contemplates that “ “After the adrenaline rush experienced in Galicia, he would have to carry out a serious debate regarding his government project and his leadership options.” “Let us hope, then, that in the PP there remain enough embers of calm, intelligence and common sense so that they stop insulting, disqualifying, destabilizing and vilifying Spain – in so many institutions and international places -, to dedicate themselves to applying it in their own home what some have already done in other national and international institutions and settings. And that they know how to do it with transparency and respect,” he adds.

The PP of Galicia released a statement this morning in which it requests the resignation of Tezanos due to this reflection. The popular ones have stated: “Whoever thinks that an absolute majority with more than 700,000 votes and support greater than 47% is achieved because the Galicians are stupid and allow themselves to be fooled, neither knows Galicia nor cares,” said the general secretary of the PPdeG, Paula Prado. She is ironic regarding the fact that Tezanos is criticizing on this occasion “what Pedro Sánchez has been doing in each and every one of the elections in which he has run.” For the PP, the statements of the head of the CIS seek to “hide his proven and repeated professional discredit.”