Vox has said this Wednesday that its president, Santiago Abascal, will not provide his image or his interventions under an exclusivity regime again, after the cuts applied to the interview broadcast on Monday in "La Revuelta" on TVE.
The party of Santiago Abascal expresses its displeasure with the final setup of the program, which left out 40 minutes of conversation in which, according to Vox, "very important messages were removed about healthcare, defending the public, or energy," among other issues. The party holds that it had agreed "in good faith" with the production company El Terrat and with TVE to deliver the full interview or to broadcast it in its entirety.
"Also failing to comply with what was agreed, the cut was made without Vox having the option to indicate which sections were of greater or lesser interest to the viewer," the party has said. "The result is that the public body is holding 40 minutes of responses from our candidate hostage when they should be in the public domain," the party adds, which calls for the delivery of the raw footage and its dissemination in an "immediate" manner. "As long as that material remains in their hands, Vox is exposed to the manipulation that they may carry out on the content that has not been published," it warns.
Vox also argues that "La Revuelta" violated "its commitment not to change the usual nature and format of the program," something which, in its view, forces them to "adopt measures so that" what they describe as "harm" and "an affront" does not happen again.
In this context, the party has advanced in a statement that Abascal will not take part in any space that seeks to maintain exclusive "control" over his responses and that, in addition, it reserves the unilateral right to edit the image and content, decide the cuts and publications, or disseminate the total or partial material without the party "having at least the same and reciprocal right, with respect to the image and the content".
The first consequence of this new stance will be the cancellation of the interview that Abascal had planned to grant to content creator Jordi Wild and whose recording had been scheduled for this Wednesday. Vox has opted to suspend it, while emphasizing that it does not attribute any "breach" to the interviewer, "but only the urgency of protecting Vox's reputation and its candidates during the election period."