The spokesperson for Compromís, Joan Baldoví, considers “a serious mistake” that Vox “set its rules” so that its leader, Santiago Abascal, would be interviewed by the comedian and presenter David Broncano on “La Revuelta,” a show on Radio Televisión Española, because, in his view, “in the end” it ended up “whitewashing” the “far right.”
In front of the media at the entrance to Congress, Baldoví has acknowledged that “deliberately” he chose not to go through with the interview, anticipating that he was going to “suffer,” but he has stressed that it was “a great mistake” to accept that “the far right set its rules,” including being able to choose the audience attending the studio.
“It was a great mistake that it set the field,” Baldoví has reiterated, who believes that the fact that “Broncano wasn’t Broncano” by not resorting to his usual “humor” and “irony” ended up “blurring” the show and, consequently, “unfairly” benefiting Abascal.
Vox and the limits in comedy programs
Along the same lines, the Compromís MP attached to Sumar and Compromís-Front Valencià candidate, Alberto Ibáñez, has pointed out that “the far right doesn’t make jokes” and that, therefore, “it has no place in comedy programs like ‘La Revuelta’.
Even so, he maintains that “the only ‘revuelta’” that Abascal would have to give explanations about is “Revuelta,” the youth organization of his party that “kept the money” raised to allegedly help people affected by the dana of 2024.
Asked whether the PSOE could have promoted that interview as a way to energize its electorate, Ibáñez has underscored that Vox “is not fought with party strategies,” but “by expropriating vulture funds, raising the Minimum Interprofessional Wage (SMI), and protecting pensions in the Constitution.”