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Broncano says accepting Vox's chosen audience was a mistake

The Spanish comedian acknowledges misjudging his Abascal interview while denying that the prime minister's office imposed its format.

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0:00Broncano says he regrets several decisions and should have used more comedy during the Abascal interview.
0:39He denies that the prime minister's office imposed conditions or a format for his political interviews.
0:54He says Vox handled the appearance strategically by asking to bring its own sympathetic audience.
1:17He calls accepting that audience a mistake, attributing his decision to excessive ambition and vanity.
2:08He describes applause for Abascal, murmurs or silence for himself, and growing discomfort during the recording.

David Broncano says he knew during his interview with Santiago Abascal that he had made a mistake. The problem, in his account, was not just the questions or the missing comedy: he had agreed to let Vox bring its own sympathetic audience.

Speaking to reporters in footage carried by Spain's EL PAÍS and credited to La Sexta, the comedian and La revuelta host accepts responsibility for an interview that prompted widespread reactions. Abascal leads Vox, Spain's far-right party.

Broncano says he should have used more comedy, as he had in earlier interviews with politicians including Pedro Sánchez, Irene Montero and Gabriel Rufián. Instead, he describes becoming increasingly uncomfortable as the recording unfolded.

He credits Vox with handling the appearance strategically by requesting its own audience. Accepting that arrangement, he says, reflected excessive ambition and vanity on his part: he had attempted more than he could manage.

According to Broncano, audience members applauded Abascal's statements while greeting his own interventions with murmurs or silence. He says he recognized the imbalance as it happened and spent the interview privately reproaching himself for getting it wrong.

He also firmly rejects the suggestion that Moncloa, the Spanish prime minister's office, imposed conditions or a format for the political interviews. His explanation centers instead on his own decisions about how to conduct them.

The street-side exchange took place as Broncano headed to record an interview with Ada Colau, the former Barcelona mayor and Frente Amplio candidate, according to the newspaper's description. After the attention paid to individual exchanges with Abascal, this clip supplies the host's account of why the evening departed from his usual approach.