Congress: Board of Directors approved the hiring of more proven personnel with high salaries, Panorama reports

The Board of Directors of the Congress approved in December last year additional module of trusted personnel for legislators who require it, and without certain restrictions.

According to a Sunday Panorama report, 45 workers are employed under this regime, and their wages range from 7,000 to 15,000 soles. This results in a state expense of S$3,800,454.

Trusted personnel are all those employees hired without competition and by decision of congressmen. Under the agreement, parliamentarians will be able to increase their staff of legislative commissions, working groups and offices only until the end of this year. Board of Directors.

Jorge VillenaPresident’s advisor Congress, was hired under this regime with the permission of José Williams himself. The head of parliament was the first to use this new modality.

The report was also aware of another agreement approved by the Board of Directors, which indicates that it is possible, on an exceptional basis, to allow recruitment with higher levels of positions in each category. In other words, personnel qualified as assistants can be placed at the eighth level with higher salaries.

Jose Chevascowho was a senior Congressional official, resigned from his position last Thursday after various journalistic accounts of alleged excessive spending on goods and services in Parliament were published.

“On the journalistic events of recent days, (…) my resignation from office, mainly for political reasons. In no way they are connected with the events of an administrative nature. by decision of various chairmen Congress about delegating administrative powers to the various general administrative offices that Congress had,” he said.

parliamentary visits

Sunday Panorama also condemned that Congress of the Republic he spent one and a half million sols on various trips of legislators to countries such as Rwanda, Switzerland and Hungary. In this list, some parliamentarians such as Maria del Carmen Alva, Americano Gonza, Enrique Wong And Ernest Bustamanteamong others.

He parliament made a statement after the publication of the report, specifying that the working trips of deputies are carried out as part of a representative function before various congresses, international organizations and organizations that unite parliamentarians from all over the world.