The president of the Center for Sociological Research (CIS), José Félix Tezanos, defended this Tuesday the independence and rigor of his surveys and has assured that "he has never falsified a piece of information" and if he did so "he would hang up his jacket" and withdraw because "it's stupid".
"Why falsify, what do you gain from it? Before a liar is caught than a lame man," stressed the president of the CIS at an informative breakfast organized by the New Economy Forum, in which he stressed that he is a member of the PSOE "for many years" and hopes "never to stop being so" although he specified that he has coincided with the party's official line "some times more and others less".
Tezanos has assured that a CIS survey "is worth four of the others" and has recalled that he has been successful in 22 of the 23 surveys carried out during electoral periods since he has been in charge of this body. "The only one that didn't get it right was Castilla y León," he said.
"As a social scientist, I would hang up my jacket and retire if I falsify something," insisted the president of the CIS, while attacking the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, of whom he has said that his image is deteriorated, something that has blamed on their lack of knowledge, mainly economic.
Tezanos has explained that this lack of knowledge that is considered necessary for certain leaderships has been observed in some Feijóo debates such as the last face-to-face in the Senate against Pedro Sánchez, and that has materialized in the polls. He has also suggested that Feijóo may not have the right advisory team.
The president of the CIS has recalled that at the time of change in the leadership of the PP, Feijóo lived "a honeymoon" that was applauded from outside and reflected in the polls. "Curiously when the CIS reflected these data it was no longer Tezanos' CIS, and I was a renowned professor of sociology," he ironized.
In the act, Tezanos has defended the figure of Pedro Sánchez who, he has said, has become an "international reference", something that he has considered positive for everyone and for the states of opinion that are generated.
When asked how the war in Ukraine could influence the next elections, Tezanos predicted that it may have a great influence on the general elections, but not so much on the municipal or regional ones.
He explained that the international scene will influence the results of the general elections because it is part of everyday life and "people will pay attention to which party offers them more security". And he has ruled out the need for an early election. "I am in favor of elections in fixed periods," she has said.
The president of the CIS has also sent a message to the political parties so that they join the pacts and the understanding because "citizens are very sensitive to the agreements and that affects public opinion". This is the case, he has said, of the reissue of the Moncloa pacts recently proposed by former presidents Felipe González or José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero or in the face of the controversy of the Judiciary.
When asked if Vox has peaked as some polls say, Tezanos has commented that Abascal's party had rapid growth but part of his electorate came from the PP "and at a certain moment there is a tendency to return to the place of origin" . For this reason, when it is said that the CIS gives an advantage to the PSOE, Tezanos has recalled that it is necessary to look at the intention to vote and the PP has a share of almost 29%.
Tezanos has highlighted the "paradox" of the latest polls in which, in his opinion, the prestige of the popular ones decreases but the intention to vote remains the same or increases, which can anticipate a trend of the "useful vote".
The president of the CIS has drawn a political map where the greatest weight is in the moderate left and in the defense of a State that protects the most vulnerable. He sees, in his opinion, a "turn in the conscience of the Spaniards" where the priorities are located in "research and science, and health" to the detriment of other issues.
