29N · Statements
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Sánchez, Montero and Rufián, Abascal and Colau have appeared on La Revuelta; Feijóo has not accepted that invitation so far. Vox has suspended Abascal’s interview for The Wild Project and, according to one outlet, the 13 November release is still expected with the other three, with no new running order announced.
On La Revuelta (La 1), Pedro Sánchez appeared on 22 October (4.4 million viewers, 33.9% share), Irene Montero and Gabriel Rufián on 27 October, Santiago Abascal on 9 November (4.8 million and 33.6%, according to Fifty5blue data reported by elDiario.es) and Ada Colau on 10 November. Público reports that Alberto Núñez Feijóo is the only one of the four main candidates who has not accepted the invitation so far. On 9 November Feijóo was on En boca de todos (Cuatro; the interview segment drew 14% and 645,000 viewers) and Sánchez on La última hora (La Séptima; 14.2% and 2,160,000). Feijóo is scheduled to appear on El Hormiguero (Antena 3) on 11 November.
On La Revuelta Sánchez mixed jokes and gifts with questions on housing, Ceuta, Zapatero, Begoña Gómez and the gag law, according to elDiario.es, and named corruption cases among his biggest mistakes. On La Séptima, with Javier Ruiz, he predicted a “historic mobilisation” on 29N, announced extraordinary cabinet meetings to approve social measures without saying which, said that “corruption disgusts me” and that the PSOE “expels” it while the PP “has bought it”, and defended Zapatero and the Transport minister’s resignation. Esdiario described that interview as not very incisive on the difficult questions.
Colau kept a calm tone and joked with David Broncano. She defended expropriating flats from funds holding more than 1,000 homes, paid for with public money but “at a much lower price” than the speculative one, and a tax on large fortunes; her stated priorities were preventing a PP–Vox government and getting the PSOE to end its “connivance” with speculation (elDiario.es). Montero and Rufián stayed for more than an hour and a half: left unity, the Errejón case, housing (Montero proposed banning purchases for speculation, expropriating funds and cutting rents by 40% by law, according to The Objective) and the programme’s usual questions about sex and money. On En boca de todos Feijóo promised to repeal the Housing and Trans laws and build a million homes without detailing how (El Plural), and said that “immigration will be regulated or it will not be”, that he will not regularise “indiscriminately” and that he will seek the return of those who entered irregularly (Infomigrante).
On La Revuelta, Abascal’s team asked to handle the audience and the programme agreed that an agency would select it, as Broncano explained when opening the show. Broncano proposed a programme “with fewer little jokes”. Abascal gave a Ceuta flag and spoke of an “invasion”; argued that gender-violence laws “have not managed to solve” what they target and that a complaint should not lead to arrest; linked housing and immigration (“there is no supply because nothing is built and more people keep arriving”), while also saying he favours State intervention in the housing market (elDiario.es); argued with Broncano over Gaza, when the host told him “you didn’t have the balls” (Infobae) and Abascal replied that Hamas was missing from that criticism; and answered a climate-change question with “the climate has always changed”. At the end he wished the host luck “because you will need it”.
Assessments differ. An elDiario.es analysis argues that Broncano “crashes” and that Abascal “came out with every objective met”; its television critic concludes it was “neither show nor interview”; The Objective describes a hostile, hesitant Broncano, though also an Abascal who was not at ease. Broncano himself said the next day: “I regret many things”, that he should have used more comedy, and that “Abascal did well” and that he and his communications team did “well at a strategic level”, because he brought his own audience. The experts Público consulted (Guillermo López, professor of Political Communication at the Universitat de València; Alba Polo Artal, a sociologist at UNED; and political scientist Eduardo Bayón) welcome RTVE giving Vox airtime but question the format: López says that to expose Vox’s discourse “you need to prepare the topics journalistically” and thinks the electoral impact will be “small”; Bayón thinks the PP loses out and Feijóo is left “blurred”. López and Polo Artal attribute to the PSOE an interest in Vox growing or in heightening fear of the far right; that is their reading, not a data point. TVE’s Consejo de Informativos said the interview “made us feel very uncomfortable” (Público).
Newtral checked several of Abascal’s claims. It called misleading his statement that “almost six million people have arrived in five years” while housing, hospitals and police numbers stayed “the same”, because those resources also increased, though not to the same extent. It is correct that 81.92% of recipients of the Balearic minimum-insertion income in 2025 were foreign nationals (1,541 people), but that equals 0.57% of the islands’ foreign population. The more than €1.7 billion in credits for rail projects in Morocco, Egypt and Uzbekistan since 2018 are repayable loans to Spanish companies, not gifts. Abascal has not expressly denied climate change, but he confused climate with weather, and a complaint does not always lead to an arrest. These checks do not cover Broncano’s opinions.
On 11 November Vox denounced “serious breaches” by La Revuelta, El Terrat and TVE. According to its statement, they refuse to hand over or publish the full recording, which includes 40 minutes that were not broadcast, and the cut was made without Vox being able to indicate the segments of most interest; it also says the programme changed its usual format. The outlets reporting the statement describe the omitted material somewhat differently (immigration, health, public services, energy), so Votuo cannot detail its content. Vox announced that Abascal will not attend programmes that keep exclusive control of the answers and editing without a reciprocal right, and suspended his recording for The Wild Project, scheduled for midday in Manresa, stating that it attributes no breach to Wild. This review found no response from TVE or El Terrat on the agreed conditions or on the 40 minutes.
Jordi Wild had announced four individual interviews, released in full on Friday 13 November, the first campaign day, an hour apart and in “in crescendo” order (Frente Amplio, Vox, PP and PSOE), lasting 60 to 90 minutes, with no agreed questions and two fact-checking journalists. On La Revuelta Colau said she recorded “two hours of tough interview” on Monday 9 and has “very strong disagreements” with Wild (Artículo 14). The Objective reports that Sánchez recorded on Tuesday 10; Feijóo’s recording is planned but not confirmed. The Objective adds that the remaining interviews will air on the 13th; El Independiente warns that the order and schedule will have to change without Abascal and no new announcement has been found.
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Votuo analysis
Votuo does not declare winners. Audience measures reach, not persuasion, and no poll measuring the effect of these interviews on voting intention has been found; the experts cited expect a limited impact. Readings of who came out better come from columnists and commentators with differing approaches, and they agree on two checkable facts: the audience was selected at Vox’s request and the programme dropped its humorous register, which Broncano acknowledged.
These are campaign messages in entertainment and interview formats, not adopted measures. Newtral’s checks show that a correct figure can be presented without context, and that some statements are opinions that cannot be verified. The 40 minutes that were not broadcast cannot be assessed; their existence and the alleged prior agreement appear only in Vox’s statement.
Once published, The Wild Project interviews will allow what Colau and The Objective describe to be compared with the full video; until then their content is known only second-hand. This story changes no Votuo answers, scores or comparisons.
Editorial interpretation: implications and open questions based on the cited sources.
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