Peru’s President Dina Boluarte | FILE PHOTO/Agence France-Presse
LIMA — Peru’s extremely unpopular President Dina Boluarte has doubled her wage with one 12 months left in her time period, the federal government introduced Wednesday.
The 63-year-old head of state, who faces protests in opposition to an explosion of gang violence within the nation, will now obtain the equal of $10,000 monthly, in keeping with an official decree.
The assertion comes after the presidency denied studies in Could saying Boluarte was going to get a pay elevate.
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Financial system Minister Raul Perez-Reyes stated the brand new wage determine was decided after a comparability with the salaries of heads of state from twelve Latin American nations.
Till the change, Boluarte’s wage had ranked eleventh, solely forward of that of the Bolivian president.
With Boluarte’s approval ranking hovering round 2 % in Could, the announcement didn’t go over nicely.
“That is the worst time to announce this information, given her approval scores are near zero,” economist Jorge Gonzáles Izquierdo stated on N tv.
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In accordance with former Financial system Minister Luis Miguel Castilla, the measure “reinforces the impression of frivolity” surrounding the president.
Protests greeted Boluarte’s rise to energy in December 2022, and have marked her complete time period — joined by assorted scandals, investigations, controversies and a surge in gang violence.
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She is the goal of a dozen probes, together with one for her alleged failure to declare items of luxurious jewels and watches, a scandal inevitably dubbed “Rolexgate.” /dl
