World’s ‘poorest president

<h1 class="article-title" style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 24px; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); word-wrap: break-word; font-family: Roboto-Bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">World’s ‘poorest president ’ rejects retirement pension</h1><div class="article-date" style="margin: 12px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(158, 158, 158); width: 288px; font-family: Roboto, Arial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Global News | Aug. 20, 2018</div><div class="article-date" style="margin: 12px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(158, 158, 158); width: 288px; font-family: Roboto, Arial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Courtesy: Driftxposa</div><p class="article-text" style="margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); word-break: break-word; font-family: Roboto, Arial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Former Uruguayan president José Mujica, who was dubbed “the world’s poorest president” has rejected the pension from his time as a senator.</p><p class="article-text" style="margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); word-break: break-word; font-family: Roboto, Arial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhhYtd7wKzL83uYVnj0rH2jgh2Wqok3zU7DNh-LxZ1MbYGh_SOf4E-uGPDw7pIUXNDeKyoDFHoVz32t1mRmVgWNGLeWzmvHNkc_9FRB4DtSM6woIX4lvawmeu5edMcDkkMIX7TPGlnsHA/s1600/%255BUNSET%255" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" data-original-height="" data-original-width="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhhYtd7wKzL83uYVnj0rH2jgh2Wqok3zU7DNh-LxZ1MbYGh_SOf4E-uGPDw7pIUXNDeKyoDFHoVz32t1mRmVgWNGLeWzmvHNkc_9FRB4DtSM6woIX4lvawmeu5edMcDkkMIX7TPGlnsHA/" /></a><br></p><p class="article-text" style="margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); word-break: break-word; font-family: Roboto, Arial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The 83 years old resigned early this week from his post of a senator. He had held the position since 2015 when his five-year term as a president ended.</p><p class="article-text" style="margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); word-break: break-word; font-family: Roboto, Arial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The former president has termed his decision to retire as personal</p><p class="article-text" style="margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); word-break: break-word; font-family: Roboto, Arial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“I’d say it’s exhaustion after the long journey. Nevertheless, while my mind works, I can’t resign from solidarity and the battle of ideas,” Mujica said in his his resignation official in a letter to the head of the Senate.</p><p class="article-text" style="margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); word-break: break-word; font-family: Roboto, Arial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Mujica resigned from his position despite having the right to stay on as Senator until 2020.</p><p class="article-text" style="margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); word-break: break-word; font-family: Roboto, Arial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">PRESIDENTIAL TENURE</p><p class="article-text" style="margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); word-break: break-word; font-family: Roboto, Arial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Mujica’s down to earth lifestyle is what made him famous. Mujica made $1200 (Sh1.2 million) a month during his five year term as president.</p><p class="article-text" style="margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); word-break: break-word; font-family: Roboto, Arial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">This is slightly lower than President Uhuru Kenyatta’s monthly salary of Sh1.4 million salary a month.</p><p class="article-text" style="margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); word-break: break-word; font-family: Roboto, Arial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Furthermore, Mujica went on to donate 90% of his fortune to charity.</p><p class="article-text" style="margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); word-break: break-word; font-family: Roboto, Arial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Mujica also refused to live in the presidential palace during his tenure as president opting to live on his farm with his wife where they grow flowers</p><p class="article-text" style="margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); word-break: break-word; font-family: Roboto, Arial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He<span style="font-size: 18px;"> also turned down an offer of $1 million in 2014 for his light blue 1987 Volkswagen Beetle saying that he needed it to drive his three legged dog.</span></p><p class="article-text" style="margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); word-break: break-word; font-family: Roboto, Arial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size: 18px;">“I’m called the poorest president, but I don’t feel poor. Poor people are those who only work to try to keep an expensive lifestyle and always want more and more. This is a matter of freedom. If you don’t have many possessions then you don’t need to work all your life like a slave to sustain them and therefore you has more time for yourself,” he said in an interview in 2012.</span></p><section class="related-news" style="margin: 32px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 16px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Roboto, Arial;"><div class="related-header" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 100px; position: relative; height: 17px; overflow: hidden;"><div class="related-border" style="margin: 8px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; height: 1px; background: rgb(221, 221, 221);"><br></div></div></section><section class="comment-box" style="margin: 48px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 16px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Roboto, Arial;"><div class="comment-list-box" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="comment-header" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 108px; position: relative; height: 17px; overflow: hidden;"><div class="comment-header-border" style="margin: 9px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; 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World’s ‘poorest president

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