The opposition leaders Alberto Núñez Feijóo (Partido Popular) and Santiago Abascal (Vox) have accepted the podcaster’s invitation on Friday Jordi Wild to take part in election interviews on his show The Wild Project Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez made no public response to the offer initially. The politicians announced their decisions in short messages on social media, with Spanish media documenting their acceptance.
Jordi Wild had announced that he would produce a special series with leading candidates ahead of the forthcoming parliamentary elections. According to him, the interviews will take place under the same conditions: in-person attendance at the studio and answers without seeing the questions in advance. In an earlier announcement, Wild had also stressed that he wanted to interview either all relevant candidates or none of them.
Feijóo said publicly that he would sit down with Wild “whenever you want”, adding that Spain needed “national renewal” and that he had a plan for it. Abascal wrote on the platform X: “Cuenta conmigo, Jordi Wild.” None of those involved initially gave any details of the dates, duration or broadcast format of the interviews.
The agreements mark a further step by the parties into high-reach digital formats. The Wild Project is one of the most successful Spanish-language podcasts and mainly targets younger, internet-savvy audiences. Taking part gives Feijóo and Abascal the opportunity to reach an audience beyond traditional televised debates. At the same time, the less formal setting carries risks: spontaneous answers and an unpredictable format can make it harder to get strategic messages across.
There was initially no comment on the invitation from Pedro Sánchez’s team on Friday. Whether the prime minister and PSOE leader will appear on the show therefore remained an open question. If Sánchez declines, observers may see it as a missed opportunity; participation by all the major parties, on the other hand, would further raise the podcast’s political standing. Such assessments are disputed, however, and depend largely on how the interviews are designed and conducted.
It also remained unclear whether other parties would take part. There was initially no confirmed information on whether all the interviews would take place under the same conditions in terms of timing and organisation. Media reports refer only to the basic conditions outlined by Wild and the public responses from Feijóo and Abascal.
Editor: Mira Cadena (Article created with AI assistance).