The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, and the leader of the PP, Alberto Nuñez Feijoó, will debate face to face this Monday at Atresmedia for 100 minutes. The long-awaited debate begins at 10 p.m. and will be divided into four thematic blocks. The two candidates for the presidency of the Government will not be able to use any electronic device and will have a single adviser who will only be able to speak with them during the two commercial breaks.
The moderators, Vicente Vallés and Ana Pastor, have assured that they want the debate to be “agile and flexible”, but also that it be fair, which is why what they have called the “time room” has been created to control the times of participation, that they be balanced and thus avoid great differences in the use of the floor between the candidates.
Economy, social policy and equality, pacts and governance, and state, institutional and international policies. Those will be the four generic blocks on which the only ‘face to face’ will revolve, which will be held in the Atresmedia studios. They are the ones that have been marked to order the program’s rhythm, but there will not be a ‘mathematical’ duration for each one of them.
And there will not be one because, as Vallés and Pastor have explained, this will be a debate with a “journalistic criteria, not a rigid one”.
The debate will begin at 10 p.m. and will be broadcast live on Antena 3 and La Sexta. La Vanguardia will offer on its website the time of the arrival of the candidates, the minute-by-minute follow-up of the interventions by Sánchez and Feijóo and, after the debate, the analysis of their best specialists and the videos of the best moments face to face. expensive.
The first to arrive at the Atresmedia facilities will be Feijóo, while the Socialist candidate will open the first block of the debate. The second block will be started by Feijóo, the third will be the same as the second, that is, it will also be started by the leader of the PP, so that the fourth can be closed by a candidate other than the one who opened the first block. The golden minute will start with Sánchez and close with Núñez Feijóo.
The two candidates will be seated face to face to promote dialogue at a two and a half meter table, which has been arranged on the minimalist black and white plate where it will take place.
They may not use electronic devices (mobile phones, tablets, smart watches, etc.) and only a member of their team may accompany them on set before starting the debate and during the two short commercial breaks.
The moderators will sit at a counter, distanced from the debate table, from where they will present the meeting and launch the questions that they introduce in the different blocks.
Vallés and Pastor want the debate to be “agile and flexible”, but they also want it to be fair, which is why what they have called the “time room” has been created to control the participation times, so that they are balanced and thus avoid great differences in the use of the word between the candidates.
This special room will have a team of ACB table officials who will measure the interventions of the two candidates. “Proportionality, but not accuracy” will be sought in the consumption of time, say the organizers.
