TVE postpones the electoral debate of the candidates for Barcelona on 29-N and Albiol accuses the public entity of helping the PSOE: "They do not want to debate"

The head of the PP for Barcelona for the general elections of 29-N, Xavier García Albiol, has accused Spanish Television of "being delivered and in the hands of the Socialist Party." The mayor of Badalona has also described as "outrageous" that the public entity "makes decisions based on the electoral interests of the PSOE", alluding to the postponement of the debate between the candidates of this provincial constituency, which had been scheduled for tomorrow.

"They do not want to debate in the current context of concern that exists in Spanish society and they believe that this feeling is going to disappear by delaying the debate," he said in a video published through social networks in reference to the train accident in Urda (Toledo) last Wednesday, with 69 deaths so far.

Albiol has closed the door on choosing a new date for that debate between the candidates for the Congress of Deputies for Barcelona: "I am not going to follow the game of Spanish Television or the Socialist Party by agreeing to participate in a debate in a future in which they understand that the climate is more favorable to them."

"They justify it by saying that we are mourning the Urda train accident, but the three days decreed ended yesterday," denounced the popular candidate. "They are not going to play with me, if TVE has become the communication department of the PSC-PSOE, I am not going to legitimize unjustifiable decisions," added the mayor of Badalona.

Albiol, together with the Minister of Industry and Tourism, Jordi Hereu (PSC), and the former mayor of Barcelona Ada Colau (Frente Amplio), is one of the candidates making their debut as the headliner for Barcelona in a general election. On the other hand, Gabriel Rufián (ERC), Míriam Nogueras (Junts) and Juan José Aizcorbe (Vox) repeat as number one.