The campaign connects buying and sharing a ticket with solidarity through a story about an organ transplant, says lawyer and economist Andrés Millán. He argues that this emotional framing makes the lottery seem different from other forms of gambling. Loterías y Apuestas del Estado sells National Lottery tickets online, where users can select a draw and choose a ticket number.
Millán, known online as 'lawtips', has criticised the contrast between public disapproval of betting-shop advertising and the positive image given to the Christmas Lottery. He says the lottery is still a wager: buyers put money into a game with, in his view, extremely low chances of winning. Loterías y Apuestas del Estado publishes results for numbered draws. Its result for the National Lottery draw on 14 November 2026 listed 75409 as the winning number.
His criticism draws on cases he says he has encountered at his law firm. Millán says gambling has seriously affected clients, and that some have obtained incapacity. The source material provides no figures for the number of people affected or for the clients he describes.
Millán also says the campaign period is particularly difficult for people with gambling problems and their families because it can revive the urge to gamble. That is his account of the effect; the material offers no independent research or figures to measure it.
He distinguishes the lottery’s appeal to family sharing from organ donation, which he says is given without expecting anything in return. He argues that a campaign supporting donation could promote it directly, without linking the message to buying a ticket. Still, he welcomes the advert’s visibility for organ donation and says he would be pleased if it encouraged someone to donate.
Questions about public institutions have also featured in scrutiny of Madrid property spending, a separate matter from Millán’s criticism of lottery advertising.
