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JOSE 'PEPE' MUJICA - AN EXEMPLARY PRESIDENT
Known for his push to legalize cannabis, spartan lifestyle and devotion to his three-legged dog, Mujica stepped down Sunday, more popular than ever.
"I'm called the poor president but I don't feel poor. Poor people are those who only work to try to keep an expensive lifestyle and always want more." Jose Mujica - President of Uruguay
77 year old President of Uruguay, José Mujica is the world's poorest president in the world because he donates 90% of his earnings to charitable causes.
His has been nicknamed “el presidente mas pobre” meaning “the poorest president”. He also lives in a farmhouse which is under his wife’s name, Lucia Topolansky, a Senator, who also donates part of her salary.
The President who took over office on the 1st of March 2010 said in a recent interview that the only big item he owns is his Volkswagen Beetle car, valued at $1,945 dollars (about N308,283)
He earns a salary of $12,500 a month (N1,981,250), but keeps $1,250 (N198,125) for himself, donating 90% of his salary to charity. He told El Mundo,
“I do fine with that amount; I have to do fine because there are many Uruguayans who live with much less.”
His country ranks as the second least corrupt country in Latin America in Transparency International’s global corruption index.
Source: Associated Federal Press
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