“We are in a chaotic situation, in a terrible crisis and the congressmen are thinking of raising their salaries,” questioned the resigning second vice president of the Board of Directors. Likewise, she asserted that the national representation “sees Congress as a gold mine.”
The parliamentarian of the Podemos Peru bench dignified street spoke out about his decision to resign the second vice president of the Board of Directors of the Congress and pointed out that the main concerns of the national representation are not the solution to the crisis, nor the early electionsfar from it, the constitutional reforms, but the increase in congressional salary.
Calle Lobatón revealed this Monday that among the main people concerned about this increase would be the Popular Renovation congressman Jorge Montoya, who placed the responsibility of managing this change on her.
“Even in the meetings of the Board of Spokesmen, Admiral Montoya himself tells me: ‘In your hands is the salary increase for the congressmen. We are in a chaotic situation, in a terrible crisis and the congressmen are thinking of raising their salaries.’ “, he asserted indignantly in Exitosa.
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But this change did not only want a salary increase, the Podemos legislator warned that there is the intention of several of her colleagues to want to “charge an extra bonus” for having worked too hard during the extension of the legislature of Maria del Carmen Alva .
“They have extraordinary bonuses, and they are asking for payments from the legislature when it was expanded with Maricarmen, they are asking for an extra bonus for having worked on that expansion. (…) I am opposed, because if we are already earning a salary, (how is it going a) pay an extra bonus in addition to that, that is why they have also wanted to censor me,” warned the legislator.
The increase in wealth generated by being in Congress
Digna Calle’s hypothesis to generate neglect such as the one that exists due to the popular request by the Legislature would correspond to an intention not to stop receiving the money that congressmen currently earn.
For her, parliamentarians “see Congress as a gold mine, that is why they cling to their seats, and do all these entrapments, the right, the left seem to play against the wall, in ‘ping pong’, and They make this not happen. Look how the congressmen have increased their salaries. And I’m not saying it, the sheets in which they have made their sworn statements say it.”
According to the still second vice president of the Board of Directors, “right-wing congressmen went from earning 24,000 to having a net worth of 240,000 a year.” That same amount is reached by “left-wing legislators who earned a maximum of 20,000 soles a year before exercising representation.”
“Now they earn 240,000 a year, more junk, more benefits. That’s what moves fellow congressmen who don’t see further,” the parliamentarian stressed.
