77-Year Old President of Uruguay Is World’s Poorest President

77 year old President of Uruguay, José Mujica is the world's poorest president in the world because he donates 90% of his earnings to charitable causes.


His has been nicknamed “el presidente mas pobre” meaning “the poorest president”. He also lives in a farmhouse which is under his wife’s name, Lucia Topolansky, a Senator, who also donates part of her salary. Click to continue.


The President who took over office on the 1st of March 2010,said in a recent interview that the only big item he owns is his Volkswagen Beetle car, valued at $1,945 dollars (about N308,283) . He earns a salary of $12,500 a month (N1,981,250), but only keeps $1,250(N198,125) for himself, donating the rest to charity.
He also told El Mundo, “I do fine with that amount; I have to do fine because there are many Uruguayans who live with much less.”
 His country ranks as the second least corrupt country in Latin America in Transparency International’s global corruption index