Peru's wealthy president mocked for complaining about salary

Peru's wealthy president mocked for complaining about salary
Fri Oct 21, 2016 | 3:31pm EDT


Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, a former investment banker who reported earning $700,000 per year before taking office in July, faced a wave of criticism on Friday for complaining about his salary as a public official.

Kuczynski's comments, posted online in a video by local daily newspaper Correo, come as his centrist government has been reeling from a corruption scandal involving a former adviser and deadly protests at one of the country's biggest copper mines.

The 78-year-old Oxford-and-Princeton-educated former World Bank economist was pitching a reform to raise the salaries of local mayors before he turned to his own earnings.

"The president of the Republic makes half of what a minister makes. There are two ministers here. Between the two of them they make four times what I make. Does that seem fair to you?" Kuczynski said before a group representing municipalities.

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Pedro Pablo Kuczynski Godard







Earlier President of Peru, Alan "Two Breakfasts" Garcia. [/center]
Someone should discreetly inform this fella that Uruguay's former President Pepe Mujica took only a tiny fraction of the President's salary, continued to live on the flower farm he shares with his wife, Lucia Topolansky, continued to drive to work in his VW bug from the '60's, and that Bolivia's President Evo Morales was the first to take office, accepting only a greatly reduced portion of the traditional salary for himself!