Electoral night (and the hearings) on television: Tezanos defeats Michavila and Ferreras claims the pactometer

Not even the best Hollywood scriptwriters would have written the story of the election night, a candy for the main television networks, overturned this Sunday with a heart attack count that, in principle, had the end written, since it was going to mean the political grave of Pedro Sanchez, of the social communist government and the supposed friends of Txapote. The audiences bury Telecinco with a disastrous 7.2%. The special elections of La 1 led with (15.4% compared to laSexta (13.4%) and Antena 3 (13.6%).

Reality acted like a jug of cold water on the back of the demoscopic guru Narciso Michavila who, after years of successes and months of media tour, suffered a goring of various trajectories when crashing into what was the star product of Telecinco’s return to election nights. Mediaset has a jinx: the brother of Aznar’s former minister José María Michavila, arrived in Fuencarral on Sunday backed by his previous predictions. The ‘Rasputin’ close to Genoa 13, the antithesis of Jose Felix Tezanos, I had a trial by fire Pedro Piqueras, who promised them very happy after having the result of 8,000 exit interviews carried out by GAD3.

But the consultant hired for the occasion by Alessandro Salem crashed with a crash: GAD3 affirmed that the PP was going to reach 150 deputies and that the PSOE was going to drop to 112. And neither one nor the other. Alberto Núñez Feijóo He suffered a Pyrrhic victory, his face was a poem, he failed to say that “With another victory like this I am lost”, as the Greek exclaimed after the battle of Asculum. The PP leader settled for 136 seats and went home angrily after the shouting under the balcony of the PP headquarters in favor of Isabel Diaz Ayuso, dressed in red in front of her countrymen in the midst of all her companions, in white. Pedro Sanchez he lost the elections but rose to 122 deputies and returned happily to La Moncloa.

“Pedro Sánchez has once again enlarged his legend”, commented Esther Palomera in the TVE special. and Ketty Garat He pointed out to Narciso Michavila on Telecinco: “Those of the polls are not going to have a road to run tomorrow.” “We have failed,” acknowledged the president of GAD3. And on Antena 3 they focused on the electoral motto of the PP, “It is the moment.” “We will see if it is the moment or not,” he ironized vincent valles when verifying that the scrutiny contradicted the forecasts.

the pactometer

The electoral return of Telecinco was commanded by Piqueras, who gave way to the “pactometer” used by Juan Pedro Valentin. Antonio Garcia Ferreras, alleged creator of the invention, he hurt from the competition, vindicated his word and sent messages to Mediaset: “Here is the pactometer 2.0. The real, the authentic, the original.” Surrounding Ferreras were Nacho Escolar, Antonio Maestre and Angelica Rubio, happy with the results, or Manuel Cobo, who denied that the Popular Party had failed despite the fact that it has zero options to govern.

Vincent Valles, winner on 28M, also had star commentators: Ivan Redondo, which parsed the result keys, and Jose Manuel Garcia Margallo, that he thought he was going to a party and found a wake.

Lucia Mendez, on TVE, pointed out that the PP “sensors have failed in this campaign” and Rodolfo Irago, in Telecinco, predicted that Pedro Sanchez He could continue at La Moncloa if he gets the approval of Carles Puigdemont from Waterloo.

Politics in the next course

The political scenario invites us to think that the televisions will increase their information load as of September. Especially at Mediaset, which could recover ‘Noticias Cuatro’ as an informative brand. Ana Rosa Quintana He already swallowed his words Alessandro Salem, vetoing the policy on afternoon shows to excuse the removal of Save me and the verpertine rallies of Jorge Javier Vázquez. Ana Rosa, for her part, will talk about current affairs without vetoing politics in her new ‘TardeAR’, erected after the end of the program that once reigned on television mornings, ‘El programa de Ana Rosa’, now divided between Ana Terradillos’ political gathering and Joaquín Prat’s magazine.

RTVE, for its part, can maintain a structure despite the fact that some directors had their bags packed and others, such as José Pablo López, seemed to throw favors at production companies close to Génova 13 with the intention of guaranteeing favorable treatment in what was going to be the new political cycle that the Spanish decided not to start yesterday.

Atresmedia, with its consolidated information muscle, will continue to bet heavily on information on Antena 3, where vincent valles o Sandra Blow, and in La Sexta, which is still piloted by Antonio Garcia Ferreras.

In the green chain there will be some news for September: Ricardo Blazquez He becomes the new co-anchor of the evening newscast that until now he had hosted alone Cristina Saavedra.

Blázquez leaves a gap in ‘La Sexta Clave’ in favor of Joaquín Castellón. And a Saturday version of ‘Better late’ will be released on the same channel with the former Save me Adela González and Boris Izaguirre in front, and perhaps a signing will take place to fill the gap left by Manu Marlasca, the star signing of Ana Rosa Quintana.

As the chains geared up ahead of the election to bolster a fall heartbeat, The surprising electoral result augurs a brutal presence of politics for the coming months, which could lead to a change in strategy on television, where the demand for political information to follow the leaders of the formations and their negotiations, which will undoubtedly have more of a full summer than a blue summer.