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Anyone with a minimum of professional modesty would have headed home quietly after the scandalous failure by CIS (Spain's public research institute) over the Andalusian election. José Félix Tezanos isn't that kind of professional and is not only still there, stuck to his seat, but CIS has just offered us a new wave of electoral predictions and its president still hasn't resigned. Tezanos' concoction didn't detect either the collapse of PSOE, who according to CIS were assured the Andalusian government, nor the growth of far-right Vox, who it awarded one seat, a figure scandalously far from the twelve it got.

In every country, the official public opinion polling centre is a very serious affair. Even CIS has had a reasonable evaluation over its history. But the Sánchez government is aspiring to a different form of government: broken promises, emotional blackmail over the arrival of the Francoist right and surveys to the liking of those who order them to keep the staff entertained. We've seen the prime minister say without blushing that without passing his budget there would be no minimum monthly wage increase to 900 euros, putting the independence movement with their backs to the wall, unleashing a campaign against them for not voting for his accounts and, in the end, as if by magic, approving an executive order in a cabinet meeting for exactly that increase. After that, we're now on to the emotional blackmail over the growth of Vox. If he would put all the energy and wiles he is using to attract independence supporters to use seriously tackling the Catalan agenda, the prisoners, the exiles and a referendum agreed between Barcelona and Madrid, it's possible that some result would have been seen.

Tezanos' magic isn't going to sort out any of PSOE's problems, as was seen in Andalusia. Not even with the early present from the Three Wise Men that gives PSOE a ten point lead over the PP and gives Vox a minimum representation. In the case of Catalonia, ERC's first place is in line with other polls and PSC's second place fits PSOE's needs.

In short, Tezano's lack of credence invalidates the figures. By the way, when will CIS ask about the monarchy and opinions of Felipe VI? Or is that question uninteresting?