The PSOE assumes that the Sociological Research Center (CIS) cooks the survey data in its favor, according to socialist sources telling LA RAZÓN. Of course, at Ferraz, in any case, they do believe that the raw data of the organization, led by his colleague José Félix Tezanos, are free of suspicion.
«The raw data from the CIS is always good. Then there is the interpretation made of that data. “How the vote count is weighted or how the accusations are made to those who don’t know, they don’t answer,” explains a source who was integrated into the socialist demographic machinery.
The truth is that beyond the CIS, the main polls that are in Ferraz’s noble table point to a technical tie between the PSOE and the PP and a rise of Vox that, precisely, the polls themselves amplify. For this reason, there are those who point out within the party that Tezanos may be playing with the results it shows to modify social perception.
In silver: the emergence of Vox as perceived by the polls feeds on itself. And this effect contributes to Moncloa’s strategy of supporting Vox against the PP. The objective of the socialists is to once again put the country on “ultra alert”, as they did in 2023, as soon as they lost the municipal and regional elections. As this newspaper already reported, Moncloa has designed a plan with which to feed Santiago Abascal’s party and harm the PP.
The head of Genoa himself, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, already refers to a clamp between both parties to pierce his party. In Moncloa they are delighted to receive all the useful votes possible from the country’s sociological left. The problem is that the president’s closest collaborators know that, when the time comes to make an agreement, the cost of not having a party at your side with which to join forces to continue in Moncloa is ruinous.
It has been more than a month since the socialist leader has been seen again before the Spanish people after months of absence, locked in the Moncloa “bunker”, and in La Mareta during his summer holidays. Sánchez instructed Minister Albares to attend to the international agenda.
The president wants to make politics for Spain from outside it. For this reason, the President of the Government is delighted to confront his American counterpart, Donald Trump, and to create diplomatic problems that set the agenda and remove it from the judicial calendar, from the revelations of the Koldo case and from the investigative court number 41 in Madrid, where his wife is being investigated for the commission of up to five alleged crimes.
The most surprising of all, for some socialists consulted, is that the PSOE, according to the CIS, is not penalized for the scandals that besiege the president. Meanwhile, Sánchez has taken out of the closet the cloak of invisibility that he put on after the publication of the devastating report from the Central Operational Unit of the Civil Guard that placed Santos Cerdán, his former right-hand man in the PSOE, on the ropes, in provisional prison since June 30.
From that day on, Sánchez and his team in Moncloa controlled the media exposure to the maximum. In all this time, both the president’s image and his state of health have become topics of public conversation. The PSOE admits that the president has prepared the party for what may happen.
If the PP wants to deal a blow, it will do so, several socialists say. The leader’s intention continues to be to resist until 2027, but if he finds the right sociological moment, based on surveys, to call elections, he will do so. In the party they are waiting until further orders: there is too much judicial and political imbroglio.