David Broncano wore the Spanish flag pin he had used when Pedro Sánchez appeared as he welcomed Gabriel Rufián, leader of Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya, and Irene Montero, a Podemos candidate and former equality minister, to La Revuelta on Tuesday, October 27. The guests arrived with bags of politically themed gifts, using the unanswered invitation to Santiago Abascal and Alberto Núñez Feijóo as material for several jokes. RTVE presented the interview as part of the programme’s continuing series with prospective presidential candidates.
Both politicians thought Abascal might come on the programme. Rufián called him a likely guest, then left an alarm clock on the table. The gesture mocked the Vox leader’s reputation for not being up at nine in the morning and played on the party’s “Spain that rises early” slogan.
Rufián also gave Broncano olive oil from Jaén and a briefcase containing material connected with Congress and the Constitution. He presented the gifts as a nod to a possible career change: becoming a PSOE deputy. Montero handed over knee pads, directing the political joke at Abascal or Feijóo and accusing them of bowing to Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump. She also put a pink plush leash on the dog Sánchez had given Broncano, joking that it needed to be kept from veering to the right if rents were to fall.
The two guests said Feijóo was highly unlikely to accept the invitation. Rufián argued that Madrid regional president Isabel Díaz Ayuso would make a better guest. He left a photograph of Pablo Casado for Feijóo in case the PP leader did show up.
The interview followed Sánchez’s appearance on October 22, which drew a 33.9% audience share and an average of 4,387,000 viewers, information from figures from Barlovento Comunicación based on Fifty5Blue measurement data. It reached 7,129,000 people who watched for at least one minute. The Rufián-Montero broadcast recorded a 21.7% share, the second-best historical result for La Revuelta on RTVE. A separate dispute involving Pedro Sánchez’s political messaging followed Javier Milei’s accusation that the government exploited migration for votes, covered in a separate report.
