It's a common grumble that
politicians' lifestyles are far removed
from those of their electorate. Not so
in Uruguay. Meet the president - who
lives on a ramshackle farm and gives
away most of his pay.
Jose Mujica is his name, The 79 year old won
the 2009 presidential election as the candidate
of the Broad Front and took office as Uruguan
President on 1 March 2010.
Laundry is strung outside the house. The water
comes from a well in a yard, overgrown with
weeds. Only two police officers and Manuela, a
three-legged dog, keep watch outside.
This is the residence of the president of
Uruguay, Jose Mujica, whose lifestyle clearly
differs sharply from that of most other world
leaders.
Mujica has achieved an international image as
"the world's poorest president" without
precedent for almost any Uruguayan of the last
few decades.
He has been described as "the world's
'humblest' president", due to his austere lifestyle
and his donation of around 90 percent of his
$12,000 (£7,500) monthly salary to charities
that benefit poor people and small entrepreneurs.
President Mujica has shunned the luxurious
house that the Uruguayan state provides for its
leaders and opted to stay at his wife's
farmhouse, off a dirt road outside the capital,
Montevideo.
The president and his wife work the land
themselves, growing flowers.
This austere lifestyle - and the fact that Mujica
donates about 90% of his monthly salary,
equivalent to $12,000 (£7,500), to charity - has
led him to be labelled the poorest president in
the world.
"I may appear to be an eccentric old man… But
this is a free choice."
"I've lived like this most of my life," he says,
sitting on an old chair in his garden, using a
cushion favoured by Manuela the dog.
read rest with pics here http://cruzloaded.com/2014/11/meet-the-world-poorest-president-his-popular-vintage-volkswagen-beetle/

He made his choice . His reward is in heaven

this topic has already been posted over 50times since this year in this forum.
Its seriously becoming annoying

it can never and never happen in my father land... even local govt chairman can afford helipcopter... 9ja 4 real

xxxx