Congress spends more than one and a half million soles on representation trips for parliamentarians

A new scandal targets the Congress of the Republic which, according to the latest surveys of Ipsos and the Institute of Peruvian Studies (IEP), has 90% disapproval nationwide. Not only would they have allocated money from public coffers to have a buffet, cell phones, more reliable staff, but there were also high expenses for travel expenses during performance trips.

According to the Panorama program, the Legislative Assembly has disbursed nearly S/1,500,000 so that parliamentarians can help the countries of Europe there Africa. Some took notes from 8,000 soles to nearly 77,000 soles. In this sense, throughout 2020 and early 2023, those who have benefited from this advantage have been María del Carmen Alva, Roselli Amuruz, Alejandro Muñante or Ernesto Bustamanteand left benches such as America Gonza and Alex Paredes.

For example, legislators Bustamante, Paredes and Alva traveled to Rwandain the East Africa, which represented an expense of 77,584 soles for the Congress. In this regard, the person who said about it is the former head of Parliament who assured that “I don’t know how much has been spent, but there is money for it”.

For its part, another trip which meant a high cost for the coffers of the Legislative Due to that carried out by members of Congress Roselli Amuruz there Luis CorderoJon Tay A Latvia in June of last year for 29,700 soles.

Finally, Alejandro MunanteThird Vice President of Congress and Member of the Bench popular revivalalso made a trip to Hungary in May 2022 which resulted in an expenditure of 13,000 soles in travel expenses.

Other parliamentarians who have used state coffers to travel abroad have been Américo Gonza (Free Peru)who went to Geneva, Switzerland) recently, and Enrique Wong (We can)who moved to Mexico.

According to the Panorama program, the board of directors headed by Jose Williams decided to create on December 16 the “Additional trusted personal module of the parliamentary organization” which would be used by parliamentarians on the various benches to hire more workers without defined limits and until the end of the current administration in the Legislative.

After this agreement, until February of this year, there are already 45 people hired who have salaries between S/ 4,000 and S/ 10,000, in addition, each worker receives a designation of 2,000 soles as a snack concept and another 2,500 for a union bonus.

For this list of workers, the expenditure would be $542,922. There are six months left in the management of Williams Zapata, so the payroll would amount to S/ 3,257.532.

It should be recalled that the ungrouped legislator Carlos Anderson had warned against the number of personnel working in the Congress of the Republic. “Let’s not forget that the Congress has a budget of more or less S/73 million per month, more than S/800 million soles per year. They have a working population of 4 thousand. I think if we call everyone to find out who’s who, we’ll find a lot of ghosts. There has always been a somewhat obscure treatment of the subject of Congress,” he said in a dialogue with RPP Noticias.

In this sense, Anderson felt that parliamentarians should receive more detailed information on appointments and decisions taken at the administrative level to avoid Legislative to be harshly interrogated.

Anderson considered that “everyone Peruvian state It’s full of dark business where logisticians are key, all processes are rigged. The urgency is declared to be able to bid directly. “These are traumas that have been repeated at all levels of the state, including the Congress“, he finished.