Jordi Wild criticizes Vox after canceling the interview with Santiago Abascal: "What does Broncano have to do with me? I am another world"

The communicator Jordi Wild, creator of The Wild Project, criticized this Wednesday Vox's decision to cancel, hours before the recording, the interview with Santiago Abascal, which was scheduled along with three other interviews with the candidates for the 29N general elections Pedro Sánchez, Alberto Núñez Feijóo and Ada Colau, by ensuring that the party had already signed a commitment to publish the entire conversation and has described the cancellation as "lack of respect" for his work.

Wild has been "deeply disappointed" with Vox and Santiago Abascal in a video, published through his social networks, in which he questions the reasons and forms of the decision: "It is also a lack of respect, sincerely, for my work."

"This is the biggest professional project I have ever done and one of the four legs has broken in a way that seems quite unfair and quite grotesque to me," said Wild. According to his story, he received the cancellation on Tuesday night, when the recording was scheduled for eleven in the morning on Wednesday. "I should be talking to him now," he said when showing the general plan of the studio.

Vox has linked the suspension to its controversy with La Revuelta, which it accuses of having suppressed part of Abascal's interview and of failing to comply with what was agreed. The party has announced that it is suspending the recording of interviews in which it does not have certain rights over the material guaranteed, although it has specified that its decision does not imply attributing any breach to Jordi Wild.

Wild maintains that the guarantees on the issue were already agreed upon. As he explained, all the participants, including Vox, had signed a contract by which he committed to publishing the entire conversation and the interviewees agreed not to demand cuts or changes.

"I was legally committed not to touch a single pixel of the interview," he stated. He has also assured that he was willing to sign another document that reinforced that commitment and that he had no problem with the candidate's team carrying cameras or recorders.

However, according to their version, the demands changed during Tuesday afternoon: "Now they want to record the interview and they want it to be theirs." Wild affirms that, in the subsequent conversation with the Vox campaign manager, they demanded exclusive audiovisual rights. "It is absolutely impossible, it is a lack of respect for my professionalism," he said about that condition.

The creator has explained that he tried to separate his program from what happened with Broncano: "What does Broncano have to do with me? I am another world, I am not a producer, I am not a television network."

Although he has acknowledged that he received an apology and that the treatment was polite, he has questioned why a solution was not found: "I believe that if they had wanted to come, they would have come."

Wild has defended the previous work dedicated to the interviews, with days of preparation, documents, studies and verifiers displaced for the recordings. His intention, he explained, was to ask each candidate specific questions about their proposals and put them "on the ropes."

In the case of Abascal, he especially wanted to address economic and foreign policy issues: "The interview would have been hard," he acknowledged, although he insisted that he would have received respectful treatment.

The presenter has also raised his interpretation of the cancellation: he considers that, after his time on La Revuelta, Vox could seek to "minimize risks" in the face of a conversation focused on delicate aspects of his program. However, he has expressly stressed that this is a personal opinion: "I have no proof and perhaps this is not the case."