The president of the Center for Sociological Research (CIS), José Félix Tezanos, has declared that "there have been people from autonomous communities who have apologized to me for some things they said before the elections", in reference to the criticism received after the publication of the regional macro-survey by the public body just before the elections were held on 28-M . One of those accusers, although it is not known if redeemer of his words, was the former Cantabrian president Miguel Ángel Revilla, who called the CIS survey "shameful", in addition to personally qualifying Tezanos as a "conscious liar".

The sociologist, who participated this Monday in the colloquium Women in Sociology, has ignored any criticism received by the results presented in the surveys prior to the regional and municipal elections: "If they check community by autonomous community, what the CIS has anticipated is quite adjusted to what has finally happened. " The aforementioned poll showed, as more significant data, that Isabel Díaz Ayuso did not get an absolute majority, that the Extremaduran socialist Guillermo Fernández Vara could continue to govern thanks to the help of Podemos, or that the Popular Party would win in the Valencian Community, but the PSOE would govern together with Compromís.

As for the municipal vote, a flash poll of the public body published a week after the regional one reflected that the PSOE would win the municipal elections at the national level. 30.2% of votes against 27.9%. The reality of election night showed a broad popular victory of 3.3 points (31.5% to 28.2%) and by just over 700,000 votes.

An annotation that also came to the fore at the time of publication of the data was the margins of error that Tezanos and his team used in the surveys, which in some cases exceeded 6%. The president of the CIS, and former member of the Federal Executive Commission of the PSOE between 2017 and 2018, has answered: "The CIS data must be interpreted. These are data that point to trends."

He also mentioned the upcoming general election. Of them he has said that it is "wasted endeavor" to predict its result a month ahead, adding that "sociology is not a science of divination."

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