The Sociological Research Center (CIS) will make public this Thursday its opinion barometer for the month of April, carried out during the electoral period in Catalonia and the Basque Country and in the midst of a climate of political tension due to the succession of information on suspicions of corruption that have been reported. been publishing after the ‘Koldo case’.
And since the arrest of Koldo García, advisor to former Minister José Luis Ábalos, became known on February 21, and this alleged plot of commissions in pandemic emergency contracts was uncovered, other information has emerged in the following weeks. that have affected the wife of President Pedro Sánchez, Begoña Gómez, and the partner of the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso.
This has been raising the tone of the debates between political parties, especially between the PP and the PSOE, and has motivated the creation of investigative commissions in the Senate and Congress.
In the midst of this climate of tension, there was the call for early elections in Catalonia for May 12 and the decision of the coalition Government to renounce presenting the General State Budgets for this year.
It is in this political context that the April CIS barometer interviews were carried out, in which it will be measured whether the PP continues to open a gap with the PSOE and whether the socialists stop their fall.
In the previous barometer, corresponding to the month of March, the PP marked a vote estimate of 34% and achieved its greatest advantage of the legislature over the socialists, 2.7 points. The PSOE, on the other hand, registered its second consecutive fall and remained at 31.3%, below its result in the general elections.
Third place, for the first time in the CIS polls, went to Vox, with an estimated support of 9.9%, overtaking Sumar, which fell to 9.2%, and with Podemos placed at 2, 2%.
What’s more, the most valued political leader in March was neither President Pedro Sánchez nor Vice President Yolanda Díaz, who until now dominated the table, but the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo.
