Those responsible for Atresmedia involved in the preparation of the electoral debate this Monday between Pedro Sánchez and Alberto Núñez Feijóo have denied the hoax of the ‘penganillo’ that the PSOE has been agitating in the last hours. The Minister of Agriculture, Luis Planas, has assured that, given the risk that the PP leader would use this instrument to debate with Sánchez, the PSOE has requested a ban on him. “We have even had to request a ban on earpieces in carrying out this debate,” Planas declared, according to Europa Press. Also at the Ferraz headquarters they have disseminated this request for a ban to stop aid to Feijóo.

However, Antonio García Ferreras, a senior manager at Atresmedia, has flatly denied it in the Al Rojo Vivo program that he directs. “Neither earpieces nor anything have been set by us. Everything has been decided in Atresmedia,” he stated in visible discomfort with the information that the PSOE is circulating.

“Neither of the two parties has even raised it. They both know that the rules are those of this house established by us without asking their permission for anything,” added Ferreras.

This has been corroborated in the same program by the journalist Ana Pastor, who will be one of the moderators of the transcendental debate. “It occurs to no one that a guest in a debate like this could wear an earpiece (…) there has not been that possibility nor has it ever existed. It is a hoax. No earpieces.”

Pastor has stressed that the use of mobile phones, watches or “any device” is always prohibited so that the protagonists cannot receive messages.

The moderator of the debate has also come up against another hoax that militants of the PSOE have moved on social networks and that is that the other moderator, Vicente Vallés, would have allegedly seen himself with the leadership of the PP before the debate. “Neither Vallés nor I have seen any political party before the debate. Nobody knows, either at home or abroad, what we are going to ask. These are the rules that we have at Atresmedia that the parties accept.”

In Atresmedia, which has scored the goal of organizing the debate between the two protagonists of the campaign, there is clear discomfort due to the pressure exerted by the PSOE with hoaxes about alleged cheating prior to the event.

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