Zamora (EFE) family or youth idols.
Two of the main candidates for the municipal command baton in Zamora have answered a questionnaire of non-political questions posed by EFE to which the current IU mayor and candidate for re-election, Francisco Guarido, has declined to answer, considering that they are personal questions that they have little or nothing to do with political life and the electoral contest.
Jesus Maria Prada (PP) and David Gago (PSOE)
1.- When you get sick, do you self-medicate?
-Prada: “Luckily I don’t get sick very much, but I self-medicate when the medication is mild, maybe a pill for a headache or a flu medicine for a cough, but not in important things. I am quite healthy and rarely fall ill.
-Gago: “I don’t usually get sick. So, when one day I fall ill I have to go to the doctor no matter what”.
2.- How many relatives do you have unemployed?
– Prada: “I have a fairly small family and luckily none”.
– Gago: “I have two unemployed brothers-in-law”.
3.- With which character from Don Quixote do you most identify?
– Prada: “Surely with Sancho Panza”.
– Gago: “It is quite complicated. I identify with Sancho Panza, that popular wisdom, that knowledge, that honesty and that loyalty towards people are key to understanding why I identify with that character, although I have to say that I also have some Marcela in my candidacy ”.
4.- In the distribution of tasks at home, what are you in charge of?
– Prada: “I take care of everything, I live alone and therefore I take care of absolutely everything, the kitchen, the room, the laundry and above all, what I hate the most, the iron”.
– Gago: “I usually do a bit of everything, but what I really like is cooking and that is what I usually do most often”.
5.- Your last plane trip, where did you go and what motivated you?
– Prada: “It was Christmas 2021, in Barcelona, to celebrate my 45th birthday with my friends, we all went to spend a weekend there”.
– Gago: “I went to Rome, with my second-year Baccalaureate students from the institute where I am currently teaching”.
6.- Who was your idol when you were young?
– Prada: “I have thought about it a lot and surely the truth is that Michael Knight, the driver of ‘The Fantastic Car’”.
– Gago: “Without a doubt, Víctor Jara, the Chilean singer. For me he is a very strong ideological reference. I think his songs came to me in adolescence and have never left me.
7.-What is the best memory or legacy of your parents?
– Prada: “Many memories, especially when one of them is missing. I think my way of being, the education they gave me and the ability to put in an effort for the things that matter in life”.
– Gago: “The moments we have shared, especially on the trips we made. We had a bad time, my father overcame an illness and we decided that we had to make the most of our time. From then on we traveled a lot around Europe and there I take with me a fabulous memory and heritage of sharing unforgettable moments with them”.
8.- Any traffic fine?
– Prada: “Not that I know of, and that we continue like this”.
– Gago: “I live in Zamora and yes, of course. The ORA always sometime one forgets and ends up paying, but I understand that even if I don’t like the price they have put on it, it is what you have to do as a citizen ”.
9.- How long has it been since you went to the movies? What movie did she see?
– Prada: “The truth is that I have remembered and I do not remember. It is one of the effects of the pandemic. I went to the movies many times and after the pandemic I have lost that habit and I intend to recover it, especially now that the new Indiana Jones will be released shortly, I am very Indiana Jones ”.
– Gago: “Not too long ago I went to the cinema to see ‘As bestas’, a film that narrates a very harsh reality of rural society, in this case the Galician society, and that has a lot to do with our society in Zamora”.
10.- Did you work while studying at the university, did you have a scholarship or did your family pay for your studies?
– Prada: “The first years I had a scholarship and then I started working and I combined work with studies until I finished my degree”.
– Gago: “I have always studied in public school and I have had a scholarship. My father worked in Reglero, my mother cleaned houses and what she had to do was try to get good grades to be able to study with a scholarship from the Public Administrations”. EFE