Valladolid (EFE).- The importance of co-responsibility at home, the pleasure of traveling, identification with the Cervantine character of Sancho Panza and self-medication only when it is something very minor are some of the curiosities shared by two of the main candidates to govern the city of Ávila from May 28: Jesús Manuel Sánchez Cabrera (XAV) and Alicia García (PP).
In order to learn about the more humane and casual side of the candidates for mayor’s office in the nine provinces of Castilla y León, the EFE Agency has asked them a common questionnaire about things that, in principle, have little to do with politics.
Jesus Manuel Sánchez Cabrera (XAV) and Alicia García (PP)
1. When you are sick, do you self-medicate?
- Jesús Manuel Sánchez Cabrera (XAV): “Man, who doesn’t drink a Gelocatil when they have a headache?
- Alicia García (PP): “I don’t usually self-medicate, really. If I have a little headache, yes. But I prefer to go to the doctor since we have good healthcare in Castilla y León and in Ávila”.
2. How many relatives do you have unemployed?
- Jesús Manuel Sánchez Cabrera (XAV): “In this case one: my mother.”
- Alicia García (PP): “Well, right now I don’t have any of my direct relatives unemployed, but in the 2008 crisis I did have relatives who had a really bad time.”
3. With which character from Don Quixote do you most identify?
- Jesús Manuel Sánchez Cabrera (XAV): “Well, I think that, in this case, I am Sancho Panza”.
- Alicia García (PP): “The characters of Don Quixote narrate the reality of the human soul, its concerns and sensitivities. If I have to stay with someone, perhaps with Sancho Panza, who transmits simplicity and reality”.
4. In the distribution of tasks at home, what do you do?
- Jesús Manuel Sánchez Cabrera (XAV): “I’m in charge of the kitchen, I’m the one who cooks at home and take and pick up the children.”
- Alicia García (PP): “Of everything, the truth. We are a large family and we have very distributed tasks because there is great co-responsibility between the five of us and we all have assigned tasks and we all do everything”.
5. Where did your last plane trip go and what motivated you?
- Jesús Manuel Sánchez Cabrera (XAV): “Well, it was last year, in the month of August, that I traveled to Norway with my family to visit some friends.”
- Alicia García (PP): “Well, I really like to travel, because they also allow you to get to know new models and also take what you have seen abroad to the city of Ávila. The last trip was to Rome with my family”.
6. Who was your youth idol?
- Jesús Manuel Sánchez Cabrera (XAV): “I have always liked politics a lot since I was little and my reference was Adolfo Suárez. And he continues to be ”.
- Alicia García (PP): “Well, I played basketball and Michael Jordan was always an inspiration to me. Santa Teresa too, as a good woman from Avila, was a woman of iron principles who was and continues to be a model for many. And, if she is already a fan, well, Alejandro Sanz, I still go to a concert ”.
7. What is the best memory or inheritance from your parents?
- Jesús Manuel Sánchez Cabrera (XAV): “It was very nice when my parents told me that I was going to have a brother. The truth is that I was very happy and it was a very emotional day.
- Alicia García (PP): My parents have taught me that to get things you have to work. They have always instilled in me, and in my brothers as well, the culture of effort, work, merit and that things must always be achieved with a lot of work and effort”.
8. Any traffic ticket?
- Jesús Manuel Sánchez Cabrera (XAV): “Yes. Also not long ago. In Central Madrid I made a mistake and went into a street that was regulated like this and I didn’t see it and after a few weeks I received the sanction”.
- Alicia García (PP): “Well, recently, as far as I know, no. Yes, it is true that when I got my card, yes.
9. How long has it been since you went to the movies? What movie did she see?
- Jesús Manuel Sánchez Cabrera (XAV): “Well, approximately two months. I saw a children’s movie with my children and wife.
- Alicia García (PP): “Well, it must have been a month or so ago and it was ‘La Ballena’. I really like going to the movies and now I have little time for this hobby”.
10. Did you work while you were studying at the university, did you have a scholarship or did your family pay for your studies?
- Jesús Manuel Sánchez Cabrera (XAV): “I worked as a library assistant and my family also helped me to do my studies, because I had to do my degree in Madrid and, of course, the travel and living expenses were important and I didn’t get it just with that salary.”
- Alicia García (PP): “I worked. The summers she worked well giving private Mathematics classes or as a monitor for foreigners ”.