Overview
- Santiago Abascal will be interviewed by David Broncano on La Revuelta (La 1) this evening with the programme cancelling its usual public and selecting attendees by casting after requests from Vox.
- President Pedro Sánchez will sit for a simultaneous interview on La última hora (La Séptima) presented by Javier Ruiz in a deliberate attempt to draw viewers away from RTVE.
- David Broncano publicly refused to host Abascal in 2019 but said he accepted the invitation now after electoral rules required La Revuelta to invite leading candidates.
- Government figures such as Félix Bolaños and candidates like Ada Colau have criticized the audience-selection arrangement as politically charged while Abascal called Sánchez’s earlier La Revuelta interview a 'masaje'.
- The clash underscores how prime-time TV has become a tactical front in the pre-campaign, raising questions about RTVE impartiality, protest management in live shows, and the likely impact on viewing figures and electoral complaints.