“No more poor in a rich country“, He said Pedro Castillo during the presidential campaign, in 2021. One of the promises that made him popular with voters was that he would give up the presidential salary. “I will lead the country with a teacher’s salary. The golden form is over, we are going to give up the life pension ”, he said from cajamarca. However, during his months in the Presidency of Peru, he collected every penny.
A report from Panorama revealed the ballots of the former president, today imprisoned for attempting to carry out a coup on December 7. The professor charged, even for those days before he himself marked his fate with the Message to the Nation in which he announced the unconstitutional closure of the Congress.
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In December 2022, Castillo charged S/17,114 for six business days plus the truncated bonus. According to the records found in the presidential office, he collected all the ballots for the 17 months that he was in power.
That is, he did not keep his promise for a single month. In December 2021, he received a bonus of S / 300, for political election remuneration S / 16,000 and for an extraordinary special concept S / 15,000 more. The same concepts were collected in July 2022.
In total, collecting all the bonuses, salaries, bonuses and others, in his year and five months of management he accumulated close to S/250 thousand soles, that is, a quarter of a million only in his presidential salaries.
