‘La revuelta’ cancels the presence of its planned audience for the interview with Santiago Abascal: “It will be recorded in different conditions”

“We are sorry to inform you that the recording for next Monday the 9th has just changed and therefore your attendance and that of your companions is cancelled.” This is how the email begins that, according to several users on social networks, the producer of La revuelta has sent to the public that was going to attend the recording on Monday, November 9. That day the interviewee on David Broncano's program will be the leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal. The message continues like this: “The program will be broadcast that day, but due to special circumstances it will be recorded under different calendar and audience conditions.”

When consulted by EL PAÍS, RTVE has not clarified what those “special circumstances” are or which audience will attend the program on Monday the 9th, only referring to its broadcast. The producer, El Terrat, has not commented on the matter either. In the message, the company regrets the inconvenience and offers another date to those affected and even proposes to save the places until the end of the season, at the beginning of July 2027.

The decision has aroused multiple criticisms on the networks. The relevance and prominence that the public that attends the recording of La revuelta has in the program is known, so much so that they even spontaneously participate in the recording. When David Broncano announced the interview with Santiago Abascal this Thursday, those in attendance reacted with boos, which could have raised concern about the development of the interview.

Abascal's will be the third visit of a candidate for the general elections on November 29 in La revuelta, one of the most watched spaces on La 1. The first was Pedro Sánchez's on October 22, when the program achieved its historical maximum audience, with 4,387,000 viewers and a 33.9% average share. The second was that of Irene Montero (Vamos) and Gabriel Rufián (ERC), also with a great following: 2.7 million viewers and a 21.7% screen share. In neither case has it emerged that there were changes in the audience due to “special circumstances” in their recording. On Tuesday the 10th, one day after Abascal, the presence of Ada Colau, candidate of the Frente Amplio, is confirmed. At the moment, Alberto Núñez Feijóo has not confirmed his presence in La revuelta, but he will attend El hormiguero on Wednesday, November 11.