67%, including 43% of PSOE voters, demand that Sánchez break with Puigdemont for insulting the king

Although support for this position differs among party voters, even 43% of PSOE voters believe that Sánchez should reconsider his relationship with Junts, according to the latest Sociometrica survey prepared for EL ESPAÑOL.

The Catalan leader, still outside Spain so as not to have to answer to justice, published a message attacking Philip VI on the social network

A little later he published another message in which he affirmed that the reaction of the Valencians was “predictable” and deplored that the current problem is that there is no “democratic proposal sufficiently strong and organized to capitalize on this energy and convert it. in a transformative movement.

If 67.6% of Spaniards consider that Sánchez should break with Puigdemont after these attacks, in the case of respondents from the Valencian Community the percentage is 63.2%. Only 26.9% of Spaniards and 27.3% of Valencians consider that the relationship between the PSOE and Sumar should continue as it is.

According to the Sociometrica survey, there is a notable difference between party voters. Left-wing groups and nationalists who support the government are in favor of ensuring that the situation does not affect relations between the two.while the PP and Vox are mainly in favor of Sánchez separating from Puigdemont.

But socialist voters are the least convinced on the left. 49.4% of PSOE voters believe that Sánchez should not break with Puigdemont, but 43% think he should. Although there is no victory, the difference is narrow and very significant.

In fact, it was a socialist who responded most forcefully to Puigdemont. After declaring that the Kings were “muddy to the crown”, the president of Castilla-La Mancha, Emiliano García-Pageresponded with a resounding message.

“You were always unhappy as a politician. I also suspect it as a person. I don’t know if it was with your tail between your legs. But you showed your face and not in the trunk of a car that flees like a coward“Page published in X, comparing the attitude of the King at Paiporta with the way in which Puigdemont fled Spain.

But voters from parties that support the PSOE in Congress and the Executive are mostly in favor of maintaining relations between Sánchez and Puigdemont as they are. The most convinced are those of Sumar (82.2%), precisely the formation most affected in the event of the fall of the government.

Despite these variations, support for the king seems to be in the majority in society. Indeed, EL ESPAÑOL published this Monday another poll in which 76% of Spaniards consider that Felipe VI and Letizia did well to go to Paiporta, even if the government warned them of the risk of protests.

It is still early to know to what extent Puigdemont’s remarks against the king will affect his relations with the PSOE, although it appears that they will have little effect. This Sunday, the socialists published a message in

Even though Junts has put up numerous obstacles to approving the budgets, the government remains confident that it will succeed in obtaining Puigdemont’s votes.

Technical sheet

The study was carried out by the company SocioMétrica between November 3 and 4, 2024 through 1,712 random interviews extracted from its own panel of n=10,000 individuals representative of all Spanish socio-demographic segments.

The final results were finely adjusted using a weighting variable that takes into account gender, age, province and electoral memory during the last three elections.

Maximum error: 3% (SocioMétrica’s average deviation in voting in gen23 was 1.1% and in eu24 was 0.8%). No confidence level is applicable as this is non-probability sampling.

Study director: Gonzalo Adán. Doctor in political psychology and professor of psychometrics and social research techniques. SocioMétrica is a member of Insights + Analytics Spain.