The 77 year old President of Uruguay, José Mujica is officially the world's poorest and most generous president,not because he cant be richer,but because he donates 90% of his earnings to charity.
His nickname,is even “el presidente mas pobre” translates to “poorest president”.He lives in a farmhouse which is under his wife’s name, Lucía Topolansky, a Senator, who also donates part of her salary.
The President who took over office on the 1st of March 2010, according to him in an interview, he said his most valued properity is his Volkswagen beetle, valued at $1,945 dollars (about N308,283) . He earns a salary of $12,500 a month (N1,981,250), but only keeps $1,250(N198,125) for himself, donating the rest to charity.
He also said, “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.
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