Valladolid (EFE).- Few aspects are shared by the candidates for Mayor of Valladolid Óscar Puente (PSOE) and Jesús Julio Carnero (PP), although they did have an athlete as a reference in their youth and both inherited the work ethic from their parents and the maxim of being a good person.
In order to discover the more humane and casual side of the main candidates for Mayor of Valladolid, the EFE Agency has asked them a common questionnaire about things that, in principle, have little to do with politics.
Óscar Puente (PSOE) and Jesús Julio Carnero (PP)
1. When you are sick, do you self-medicate?
- Puente: “Like, fortunately and knock on wood, my illnesses are just colds and flu processes, yes, I self-medicate with some anti-flu. Until now, fortunately, I haven’t had to take anything else.” (This question was answered before the spectacular fall he suffered on April 27).
- Ram: “Getting sick is a very serious thing and self-medicate too. Therefore no. What the doctors prescribe.
2. How many family members do you have unemployed?
- Bridge: “Right now, as far as I’m aware, none.”
- Ram: “Direct relatives, no. I have some close to me, three that I remember”.
3. With which character from Don Quixote do you most identify?
- Puente: “To identify with someone, more with Don Quixote. In fact, sometimes I feel a bit like Quixote when he has to deal with giants, but really ”.
- Ram: “Without a doubt, the Knight of the Green Coat.”
4. In the distribution of tasks at home, what do you do?
- Puente: “Everything, I do everything. Right now, from ironing my shirts, to cooking, to vacuuming and mopping…everything”.
- Carnero: “They would have to do that to my wife. But I take care of putting washing machines, hanging clothes, making the bed… some salad. But, I insist, that question would surely, surely, surely be answered much better by my wife”.
5. Your last plane trip, where did you go and what motivated you?
- Bridge: “Well, I went to Bratislava to visit InoBat and at the beginning of January to the Council of the Regions of Europe.”
- Carnero: “I have been in Amsterdam, getting to know the reality of the city and mobility. There are interesting things to copy and uninteresting things that we should not copy.
6. Who was your youth idol?
- Bridge: “Michael Jordan”.
- Ram: “Without a doubt, Induráin. An athlete of a very individual sport who always spoke in the plural. We have won, we have arrived, we have achieved…”.
7. What is the best memory or inheritance from your parents?
- Puente: “The work ethic, the struggle to get ahead, the dedication and the facilities they gave us for everything. I owe everything to my parents and fortunately I continue to enjoy them”.
- Carnero: “Being a good person, which is what they have always wanted to instill in me. I don’t know if I succeed, but I try at least. It was like a jackhammer always in my house”.
8. Any traffic ticket?
- Bridge: “Not that I remember in the last four years. I’m not into traffic tickets at all.”
- Ram: “Yes, of course, some. Not many, but some.”
9. How long has it been since you went to the movies? What movie did she see?
- Bridge: “February, I think I remember, and I went to see ‘The Whale’”.
- Carnero: “I think the last time I went to the cinema was a year, a year and a half ago and I saw ‘Lost Illusions’”.
10. Did you work while you were in college, did you have a scholarship, or did your family pay for your studies?
- Puente: “My family paid for my studies, but I have worked since I was 20 years old. As a ski instructor, as an actor, as a DJ, but not necessarily to pay for my studies”.
- Ram: “I didn’t have a scholarship. she worked odd jobs. Two of them formatted me in many aspects. The first of them, for many years I worked in successive editions of the Trade Fair at the Wine Museum”.