Jose Antonio Rebollo is a Vox candidate for the Formentera Council. He lives in Eivissa and perhaps this circumstance explains the surreal responses to an interview he was given as a candidate on the Radio Illa station: he assured that Maó is in Fomentera and, at one point, he astonished asked if he had to "suck" Puigdemont or Pablo Iglesias because he did not understand that they were asking him in Catalan who he would choose to 'soup', not to 'suck'. "What a twister you are," he told interviewers.
When asked if it was more herbal or gin and tonic, he replied: "Neither one thing nor the other because the only thing I smoke is tobacco" and he was not able to say to which saint the Formentera church was consecrated, despite the fact that the journalist He asked him, literally, "to which saint is the church of Sant Francesc Xavier consecrated".
The interview already started on the wrong foot when the candidate denounced the existence of educational barracks in Maó, a municipality that is in Menorca. At that moment the interviewers are heard who cannot contain their laughter and the communication is unexpectedly cut off. For more than two minutes they try to get in touch with him without success and, when the conversation finally picks up, Rebollo already specifies that he did not mean Maó, but Sant Ferran, which is in Formentera.
As soon as the interview began, he had already said that you don't have to live on the island to know what its problems are. "We need to be told," she argued. She did not know how to say the name of a single beach on Formentera and was about to fall into the trap that the interviewer set for her when he asked her if he was from more than one of the mountains on the island.
The candidate made a monumental mess when asked about the conversion of an old Franco regime prison camp into a space for memory. "I'm not 'bragging' about anything to do with this," he replies between stammers, without giving an answer. Regarding the specific problems of the island, he responds with a sea of vagueness, such as housing. "Once we are in the City Council we will see how the matter is because it is not something easy, but it is essential."
Regarding tourism, he says: "You have to look at everything point by point." Regarding his upcoming trip, he says that it is the United States, specifically California, to see "very important monuments." Vox appears for the first time in Formentera and does so with a candidate who lives in Eivissa.
