People's Party demands Tezanos testify in the Senate

The People's Party has called on the president of the Centre for Sociological Studies (CIS), José Félix Tezanos, to testify before the investigation committee in the Senate next Tuesday, December 9th. Sources from the party in the upper house of parliament announced this on Thursday. They claim that if Sánchez truly believed in himself, he would immediately call for elections, but he and all Spaniards know that CIS polls are 'Sánchez's letter to Santa'. According to them, when Tezanos was appointed head of the CIS, 'the institution's prestige and rigor gave way to manipulation and sectarianism'. Therefore, they believe Tezanos 'will have to account to the Senate for the falsification of polls in favor of Pedro Sánchez, paid for by all Spaniards'. One of the most representative examples is the CIS, the party members explain. Tezanos, before taking over as president of the CIS, held various positions in the PSOE. They accuse the institution of generating 'prefabricated polls' based on 'Sánchez's interest and not the truth'. This is not the first time Tezanos has been accused of manipulating polls and barometers within the organization he leads. 'The vast majority of the 16 experts who have passed through the committee agree on this,' sources from the People's Party's parliamentary group in the Senate confess. In 2021, Vox filed a complaint that was admitted by Madrid's Instruction Court No. 29, as it presented characteristics that made 'the possible existence of a crime/s of embezzlement of public funds' in favor of the PSOE possible. The lawsuit was eventually archived by the Madrid Audiencia. In 2018, he requested the party led by Pedro Sánchez to suspend his functions to focus on his work at the head of the public body. Additionally, they lament that a 'benchmark institution for polls and sociological studies' has become 'an example of the occupation of institutions by sanchismo'.