The results of the general elections last Sunday showed that most of the pre-election polls failed and fell short of the final figures. During the campaign and the previous months, the CIS, and its president José Félix Tezanos, have been harshly criticized for their polls and approximations. Tezanos has defended himself this morning in an interview on RAC1 and has ensured that there is “a right-wing political operation to manipulate the polls.”
According to the CIS leader, the “political, media and economic” right want to “convince people to give up and believe they will lose.” In this sense, he explained that “certain powers are buying the polling houses, which have become part of the confrontational strategy.”
Tezanos has denied that there is political interference in his polls, and has stated that “one must be very stupid to deceive oneself.” “What use would it be to say that you win if you go wrong?” He added.
Spain is one of the countries with the most surveys, something that is “curious” for Tezanos, who has specified that some of them “are irregular, with insufficient samples.” “Some don’t really do surveys,” she said. His, added the president of the CIS, can cost up to “20,000 euros”.
The former Secretary of Studies and Programs of the PSOE has lamented that he is being “harshly criticized, almost lynched”, and has pointed out the “enormous volatility” of electoral behavior, which can lead to margins of error. The important thing about the polls, Tezanos pointed out, “is to set the trend”, “and the CIS does it”.
Tezanos has defended that there is a majority of the center and center left in Spain, and has asked himself: “To win elections from the right, what must be done? Intimidate, discourage, so that people do not vote.”
On the other hand, the last time that the CIS asked about the Head of State was in 2015, and Tezanos has justified that it no longer asks about the monarchy, assuring that “it does not appear” among the most important problems of citizens, and that his mission “is not to create problems where there are none.”
Finally, the president of the CIS has confirmed that if the PP came to the government, it would not take “not a minute to present its letter of resignation.”
