The president of the Center for Sociological Research (CIS), José Félix Tezanos, has declared that "there have been people from autonomous communities who have asked me for forgiveness" In reference to the criticism received after the publication of the regional macro-survey by the public body just before the elections. One of those accusers, although it is not known if redeemer of his words, was the former Cantabrian president Miguel Ángel Revilla, who called the CIS survey "shameful"