The Center for Sociological Research (CIS) publishes this Wednesday (12:30 p.m.) in the midst of an institutional clash its barometer for the month of December, whose field work was carried out amid the controversies over the suppression of the crime of sedition, the embezzlement reform and for the downward revisions of sentences for sexual offenders in application of the new law on Sexual Freedom, known as the law of only yes is yes.
The previous barometer, for the month of November, was closed after the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, announced that the crime of sedition would be abolished, but the processing of this controversial bill that has ended up reforming several articles of the law had not yet begun. Criminal Code and even other organic laws.
The interviews were already carried out in the first days of December, with the registered amendments to expand the initial object of the suppression of the crime of sedition and add other issues such as the embezzlement reform, the change in the Constitutional Court election system or the again the crime of illicit enrichment.
The survey, which will be released just one year before the deadline for the next general elections, must reflect the impact that this reform of the Penal Code that favors the defendants may have had on public opinion and the intention to vote. by the process, but it will not be able to reflect the effect of the last episode of this controversy, the decision of the TC to paralyze the parliamentary processing of the changes in the Judiciary and the guarantee court itself.
It is also foreseeable that the responses of those surveyed will reflect the climate of tension that Congress has experienced in recent weeks due to the increase in tension and insults in the chamber due to this reform and the start of the trickle of revisions of sentences. by the Law of sexual freedom. In those days Vox and Ciudadanos have also challenged the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo to present a motion of censure against the Government of Pedro Sánchez for making an 'à la carte' reform of the Penal Code to benefit those convicted of the 'procés' '.
In the absence of the data that you will see today, the November barometer increased the distance of the PSOE over the PP to 5.5 points, by giving the Socialists an estimated 32.7 percent of the vote, the same percentage as in October, but with a drop in the PP, which was left with 27.2 percent. However, in direct voting intention, without the so-called "kitchen" of the CIS, the distance between PSOE and PP was reduced to 1.6 points.
That survey also gave a drop to Unidas Podemos, which went from 12.7 to 12.2, while granting a rise to Vox, which climbed from 8.8 in October to 10.1 percent.
