Spain: Confidence in COVID-19 response by leaders 2022

As of February 2022, the average respondent considered Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic to be 4.88 on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the best. This makes his actions and speeches the least unpopular of the leaders in this statistic. Vox's leader, Santiago Abascal, received the worst grade among political leaders.

Average confidence in selected Spanish politicians in their COVID-19 response, as of February 2022

Characteristic	Feb 21	Feb 22¹
Pedro Sánchez	4.3	4.88
Yolanda Díaz²	0	4.88
Íñigo Errejón²	0	4.08
Inés Arrimadas	3.4	3.67
Pablo Casado	3.2	3.49
Santiago Abascal	2.5	2.78

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Release date

February 2022

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Region

Spain

Survey time period

February 3-11, 2021: February 1-12, 2022

Number of respondents

3,844 respondents

Age group

18 years and older

Method of interview

Computer-assisted telephone interviews (CATI)

Supplementary notes

* Respondents answered the following question:
Rate these political leaders n relation to what each is doing and saying regarding COVID-19 at this moment, on a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being "very bad" and 10 "very good"?

¹The 2021 figures based on a sample size of 3,869 respondents. 2022 figures are based on different sample sizes for each politician, these are:
Pedro Sanchez: 3,844
Yolanda Díaz: 3,578
Íñigo Errejón: 3,585
Pablo Casado: 3,799
Inés Arrimadas: 3,531
Santiago Abascal: 3,689

² The 2021 survey did not enquire about Yolanda Díaz and Íñigo Errejón.

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