• Politics We can denounce five years after that Tezanos "manipulates" the CIS after the support of the PSOE to Yolanda Díaz

The blood did not reach the river. Unidas Podemos, despite having been critical in recent weeks with the drift of the Center for Sociological Research (CIS) and the bias favorable to the PSOE of its president, José Félix Tezanos, rejected on Tuesday in Congress the initiative of the Popular Party so that the institution is headed by a professor without any political affiliation.

Just three weeks ago, the minority member of the government coalition denounced an "alleged manipulation" by the CIS in the last monthly barometer to "modify downwards the vote estimate for Unidas Podemos". An accusation with which the purples joined the criticism by the opposition parties, which since the beginning of the legislature point out the "erosion" of the organism as a result of the kitchen of Tezanos.

However, Unidas Podemos chose on Tuesday not to stand out in Congress and reject the PP bill, called by some groups as the "anti-Tezanos clause", which urged to "strengthen the mechanisms" to assert that the leader of the CIS is neutral and recover the credibility of the institution, since "their estimates are no longer believed by anyone", as recalled by José Antonio Bermúdez de Castro, the popular deputy in charge of defending an initiative that did not go ahead, but was worth for all the groups, with the exception of the PSOE, to point out the lack of credibility of the CIS.

"The mistakes of the CIS," Bermudez de Castro explained, "are not innocent," but "hide behind a clear political intention to create a climate of favorable opinion at a time when Sanchismo is in decline." A thesis defended by the vast majority of parties in the Chamber, despite the fact that many chose not to vote in favor of the proposal to understand, as Genís Boadella, of the PDeCAT slipped, that the model outlined by the PP can lead to a new blockade in Congress in the image and likeness of what happens in judicial matters.

Unidas Podemos, in any case, acknowledged that "the CIS sweeps home" in many of its surveys, in relation to the dynamics contrary to that of the average of private pollsters that it has followed for several years. In fact, Deputy Chema Guijarro described as "interesting and even debatable" some of the points that the PP text put on the table, such as that the name proposed by the Council of Ministers is endorsed in Congress, although this may give rise to new situations of blockade.

Of course, Guijarro called "artificial" the regime of incompatibilities designed by the popular and recalled that a good part of the presidents of the CIS during the mandates of the PP, despite not having a party card, had a direct relationship with the formation: "They were more theirs than the seagull." Hours before, the purple conglomerate had already slipped that its position, although it was critical of the CIS, had little to do with the measure that the PP took to Congress and that responds, according to Guijarro, to its "obsession" with Tezanos.

"You take turns in power," said José María Sánchez on behalf of Vox to stage that the attitude of the PP and the PSOE is identical when they reach the Government, where they conveniently locate their supporters and close ones. Therefore, he said, this proposal is for those of Santiago Abascal "a chickweed that does not convince anyone." He did stress, despite everything and in line with popular denunciation, that the CIS "always subvenes to the occasional need of the president and his party," which plunges the institution into the "lack of seriousness and moral scruples."

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