the congressman Jorge Montoya sent an official letter addressed to José Williams Zapata, President of Congress, on behalf of his party popular renewal. In it, he announces that due to the journalistic comments issued after the report that revealed changes in the menu of the parliamentarians in the plenary sessions that cost 16 soles and went to 80 for an assorted buffet, his bench “requests a review of the terms and scope of the measure’. Likewise, he stated that the fact affects the institutional image of the party, and notified that if it is maintained they would not participate in said benefit.
The change came into effect on December 12 of last year, and includes breakfast, lunch and dinner. Plenary sessions usually last more than 10 hours, so that would be the basis of the modification for your food. Patricia Chirinos, congresswoman, mentioned that “everyone has the right to eat delicious food.”
Precisely, Montoya was one of the parliamentarians who had a rough moment with the journalists who asked him about the expensive buffet, answering that “they want me to eat alfalfa” referring to his colleagues and him. Before, he had also said that surely journalists “eat third-rate food, sure.”
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the documentary of Fourth power revealed that breakfast for congressmen would cost 31 soles, lunch 80 and dinner 80 as well. In this sense, taking into account that there are 130 parliamentarians, we would be talking about 24,700 just on one plenary day. Taking into account that 18 plenary sessions have been held to date, it would be more than 444,000 soles for parliamentarians.
