ABC sees Sánchez affected and (almost) sunk

BarcelonaNarciso Michavila is considered the electoral guru of the Spanish right as director of GAD3, the polling firm that conducts the surveys for theAbcThe problem is that his credibility was severely damaged in 2023, when he predicted a vast absolute majority for the PP and Vox, which ultimately fell short. Curiously, it seems that this failure hasn't affected him, nor did it affect his nemesis, Tezanos, who predicted an absolute majority for the PSOE and Sumar. Well, Michavila returns to the fray this Sunday with a survey aimed at assessing Sánchez's leadership, which the newspaper obviously considers "very damaged" on its front page.

The most significant fact is that a third of Socialist voters believe Sánchez lacks the strength to be prime minister. All the headlines in the survey are apocalyptic: "Sánchez's leadership collapses on all key issues," reads the headline on the front page. And the editorial is priceless: "The collapse of a leadership." What's interesting here isn't the data itself, but the thesis it paints. What emerges from the texts is that Sánchez is no longer just finished politically, but that the strategy of permanent siege is also destroying him personally. In the editorial, they refer to the president's "face furrowed by general pressure" and openly speak of the "end of his cycle."

With this survey in hand, it's easy to guess that the right will not let up at the start of this year, but quite the opposite, since they think that if Sánchez collapses personally, the entire edifice of Sánchezism will fall like a house of cards. The question is: would Michavila and theAbc to conduct a similar survey on Alberto Núñez Feijóo?