The Supreme Court has the Sanction imposed on José Félix TezanosChairman of the Center for Sociological Research, for violating the obligation to communicate the Central Election Council, the realization of the Flash Survey which was implemented in April 2024 about the letter in which Pedro Sánchez communicated that he had the value to resign as President of the Government. Sanchez addressed that letter to the citizens after a court had admitted a complaint about his wife, Begoña Gómez, for alleged corruptions.
The survey contained questions about the judicial investigation into the wife of Sanchez and about the functioning of the judicial system. But he also interviewed the polls for his Voice intention. At that time, the Catalan and the European elections were in the trees.
The Electoral Act finds that, if an agency depends on public administrations in surveys in intention to vote, the results “They must be informed about political entities Simultaneously with the elections at the territorial scope of the survey within forty hours after the application. “
That prescription was the subject of the Instruction 1/2024It determines that if these surveys contain questions about voice intention, the public body that it performs “It must be more likely to communicate to the central electoral committee so that it is given transfer to the representatives of the political entities Simultaneously with the elections at the territorial scope of the survey. “
The instruction adds that “Regardless of the denomination grantedThe works that are included in your questionnaire questions about the voice intention, assessment of the parties or assessment of political leaders will be subject to this obligation “. This prediction is included to prevent Tezanos from communicating the JEC’s probes about the probes about the mood intention that were not really entertaining, but more, but more Flash or Democopic studies.
The aim of the CIS obligation to inform the Central Electoral Board about any questionnaire containing questions about the voice intention is on the one hand “Warranty Transparency” in the functioning of that agency among the government. And on the other hand, the principle guarantees Equality of all political forces in access to this data.
“It is notorious that the CIS” has violated the obligation to communicate the decision earlier to conduct that study called Flash survey about the Spanish political situation“, which includes a section that focuses on the intention of voting from voters, even though they are held at the Parliament of Catalonia and the European Parliament during the election period of the elections,” said the Central Electoral Board.
The JEC rejected the claim that, being questions about the intention of voting in hypothetical general elections -not in the elections to the Parliament of Catalonia or the current European Parliament -the study was not subject to the obligations laid down in Article 69.8 of the Organic Law of the General Electoral Regime and instruction 1/204.
“Even if a mood intention survey can refer to a future election process,” answered, answered, answered, answered, answered “You can provide utility information for political formations that differ from those who are part of the prevailing majority“
He also argued that “thinking that an overview of the intention to vote is not an interest because it refers to a different election process than the call would lead to the reason why the CIS decided that investigation into the intention to vote.”
“As you should understand that if you have done it, it is because you consider that it can be valuable, the same value can also have it for the rest of the political parties, other than those who are part of the government. The opposite would be the opposite to these formations in a Situation of inequality with regard to those who can integrate the majority of the government“
The Contenty-Administrative Chamber of the Supreme Court, in a punishment with the presentation of Alicia Millán, has rejected the profession of Tezanos and confirmed the arguments of the JEC.
