The Minister of the Presidency, Justice and Relations with the Courts, Félix Bolaños, has stated that the various polls published about the elections of 29N, "including those that say there would be a reactionary majority," agree in pointing to "there is an upward trend for the PSOE" while the PP would lose seats.
In an interview on "RNE", collected by Europa Press, and referring to the polls that "La Séptima" publishes every day, he has indicated that "there are already polls that say the Partido Socialista is the leading force, and yesterday they said that the Partido Popular and Vox were no longer adding up to an absolute majority."
Bolaños has explained that "just yesterday and for several days, every day, tracking is done and they make it public," to then emphasize: "Not only that, all the polls, also those that say there would be a reactionary majority in our country, agree on something, and it is that there is an upward trend for the Partido Socialista and a downward trend for the Partido Popular."
The head of Justice has rejected that, in light of the polls, an absolute majority of a hypothetical alliance between PP and Vox can be taken for granted, and he recalled that in the general elections of July 2023 the polling forecasts did not accurately reflect the outcome at the ballot box. "We have not forgotten what the polls of the 23rd said and what the final result of the elections was," he said.
Accordingly, he has argued that both the polls that give PP and Vox a possible absolute majority and those that place the PSOE as "the leading force" coincide on a common element: they all point to an increase in support for the Partido Socialista.
Criticism from Bolaños of Vox’s conditions in the media
In another matter, when asked about the interview with Vox leader Santiago Abascal on "La Revuelta", Bolaños has avoided saying whether that media appearance responded to a Government strategy so that Vox would withdraw support from the PP. He has focused on condemning that Abascal and his party imposed conditions to participate in the space, something he has linked to a recurring way of proceeding, and he has questioned that they resort to this kind of "actions even without governing."
"Mr. Abascal attended 'La Revuelta', incidentally, putting conditions not like any other, but putting conditions, just as he has stopped going to another broadcaster (Jordi Wild), because they also wanted to impose their own conditions. That is to say, this kind of people have these kinds of actions, even without governing; imagine if they were governing," the minister has reiterated.
Likewise, he has rejected Abascal’s statements, in which he accused the Executive of being "the worst Government in the last eighty years," and he has reproached him for not being able to describe the Francoist regime as a dictatorship, while instead he calls Pedro Sánchez a dictator: "that means that we are worse than a criminal, corrupt, and thieving dictatorship, like the dictatorship of Franco was," he concluded.