'El País' also boosts Sánchez's polls

You have to believe in coincidences to avoid mistrusting press surveys, which generally coincide with the editorial interests of the newspaper in question with pinpoint accuracy. That's why the one published this Friday is so important. The Country, where each of the figures is a blow to Pedro Sánchez. They tell him the PP has the largest margin in votes; that people consider his response in the UCO report insufficient and very slow; that he should call general elections; that his refusal to allocate 5% of GDP for defense, as required by NATO, lacks majority support... Not a single figure plays in his favor. And it's clear that the PSOE leader is experiencing his darkest hours. But it's also true that, with a little goodwill—or by tweaking the data a bit in the kitchen—any survey can offer some figure that saves the story. They could have asked, for example, which party they consider more corrupt, the PSOE or the PP. Or the personal assessment, in which Sánchez usually prevails over Feijóo.

Sánchez has been roasted with polls since he set foot in Moncloa, but The Country It used to offer a more friendly version of that parallel reality that is opinion polls. Now, however, it confirms that the relationship between Prisa and the PSOE is not going through the best of times. Yes, there's an interview with Jaume Asens in which he claims that Sánchez should hold on. And a headline says that the PP is giving Feijóo a "last bullet" to achieve the electoral victory that eluded him. Because, let's not forget, elections are not won by obtaining more votes than the other party, but by building parliamentary majorities, a subject that the Popular Party constantly fails.