Vox accuses TVE and 'La Revuelta' of "kidnapping" 40 minutes of the program with Abascal and demands the broadcast of the full interview

Vox issued a statement this Wednesday in which it accuses both TVE and the program La Revuelta of "kidnapping" 40 minutes of the interview with Santiago Abascal that were not broadcast last Monday, something that, it claims, "fails to comply with what was agreed in good faith", which is why it has demanded that those images be delivered to it as well as "make the entire recording public". It also announces that Vox "will only accept interviews that allow the availability and use of the answers" and has canceled the interview it had planned to record for The Wild Project podcast.

The broadcast of La Revuelta last Monday left out a 40-minute interview that, the next day, RTVE sent to the media so that they could echo it, but it did not broadcast them on its channels and platforms. Furthermore, said content is only available for 48 hours, something that has also happened with the interview with the Frente Amplio candidate, Ada Colau. Therein lies Vox's complaint, which also criticizes that "the cut was made without Vox having the option of indicating which sections were of greater or lesser interest to the viewer."

In his opinion, "very important messages on health, defense of the public or energy, among other issues, were excluded." "The result is that the public entity is hijacking 40 minutes of our candidate's answers, when they should be in the public domain. As long as that material remains in their hands, Vox is exposed to the manipulation they may do of unpublished content," he says.

But in addition, the party considers that La Revuelta "failed to fulfill its commitment not to change the nature and usual format of the program", so it will "adopt measures so that this abuse and damage is not repeated." Thus, Abascal "will not go to any program that claims to have exclusive control of the responses and that reserves in any way the right to edit image and content, make the cuts and publications it wants, publish the content in whole or in part, without Vox having at least the same and reciprocal respect for the image and content." Despite this, he then says he respects "the editorial independence of the program."