According to Quarto Podera, the Congress raised to S/80 the daily expenses of each parliamentarian for meals only.

The Board of Directors of the Congress approved an addition worth more than two million soles to increase the cost of meals for each parliamentarian and receive a smorgasbord in return. Sunday report says fourth force.

This change has taken place since December of last year due to a new addition. Now lunch per deputy has gone from the value of S/. 15.93 to C/. 80, payment for the buffet concept. Breakfasts have also risen to 31 sols per MP, while they used to cost less than 5 sols. The same goes for dinner, which costs 80 soles.

Full day in Congress, the legislator can consume S/. 190 in food only. That is, to feed 130 deputies of the Legislative Assembly. It may cost about S/. 25,000.

“Feeding is not an extra expense. Congressmen also pay taxes,” Valdemar Cerron justified when asked about it. His colleague Patricia Chirinos was of the same opinion, arguing that all Peruvians have a “right to delicious food”, although she assured that she sometimes did not dine in the dining room of the parliament.

Jose Chevascoa senior congressional official, declined to answer the situation, saying he did not offer interviews, but pointed out that the change “should be due to more variety in the buffet.”

For his part, Pablo Noriega, the head of the congressional administration, assured that he did not know what had happened, since he had recently taken office.

The agreement also states that the legislators’ food must be “of the highest quality,” such as beef, pork, first grade meat, fresh chicken, and well-ripened tubers.

“There is a parliament with very little legitimacy”

Electoral law specialist Jorge Jauregui, in a dialogue this Sunday with RPP Noticias, believes that the possible advancement of general elections was not enough to address the problems presented by “representative liberal democracy” in the country.

“Great political power is expressed in a parliament that concentrates a lot of power (…) This makes Peru a parliamentary-presidential system, and this is a problem for democracy. Parliament has too much power and too little legitimacy,” he said.

“There is a structural problem in the Peruvian political dynamic that the way parliamentarians are elected leaves them completely out of touch with the voice of the citizens. And electoral rules give citizens very little control, the structure of the electoral system has that effect. ,” he added.

choreges Another worrying aspect, he called Amnesty International’s report on the current political and social upheaval in the country due to protests against Dina Boluarte.