Francisco Rodrigues dos Santos attacks a “tailor-made survey, which gives 0.3% to the CDS – Observer

After Rui Rio, this Sunday it was the turn of Francisco Rodrigues dos Santos to have fired criticism against the polling company Aximage, which today gives the PS a rise in voting intentions, “despite the recent scandals”, and the CDS almost disappeared from the map. In a Facebook post, the centrist president attacks the credibility of the company and says it is a survey “made to measure”, “made to order.

“Aximage decided to get ahead of the carnival and started rehearsing some antics today. It published a tailor’s survey, made to measure, in which it raises the PS – despite the recent scandals – and the CDS, which has denounced them, up to 0.3%, “the publication reads. .

Accompanying the publication, the centrist leader repeats what the PSD leader had already done the day before: he shares a news item from Visão magazine, last September, where it is read that the director of Aximage, Almeida Ribeiro, is an ex-spy of the SIS, former Secretary of State of José Sócrates (between 2009 and 2011) and advisor to Luís Filipe Vieira, who recently conducted a survey that gave the president of Benfica a “resounding” victory in the elections to the direction of the football club.

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“Aximage should have blushed with shame when he learned that his technical director, former Secretary of State for Socrates and an advisor to Luís Filipe Vieira, conducted a ‘strong poll’ to help him win the elections, which the polls also denied. ”, Says Francisco Rodrigues dos Santos.

It is in this sense that the president of the CDS announces that he will urge the Regulatory Body of Social Communication (ERC) to take “the necessary measures to regulate the procedures of the polling companies.” Francisco Rodrigues dos Santos wants to “avoid tricks, lack of technical rigor and ‘antics'”.

The survey in question indicates that if the elections were today, António Costa’s PS would win again easily, Rui Rio’s PSD would be about 13 points away, Chega could be competing for third place with the Bloco de Esquerda and the CDS it would disappear from the electoral map with only 0.3% of voting intentions.

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For the president of the CDS, the result of the centrists in the Azores “denies” the announced death of the party they lead, and the successive “mistakes” made by the polling companies are no longer mistakes to become “bad faith” and ” incompetence”.