[www.keralites.net] The ‘poorest president in the world’, who lives on a ramshackle farm and gives 90% to charity [1 Attachment]

 

Finally! A politician who DOESN'T fiddle his expenses: The 'poorest president in the world', who lives on a ramshackle farm and gives 90% of his earnings to charity.

    Uruguayan president Jose Mujica lives on a farm on the outskirts of Montevideo with his wife and three-legged dog
    Part-time farmer's proudest and most valuable possession is his tired-looking Volkswagen Beatle

Mr Mujica gives 90 per cent of his monthly salary, the equivalent of £7,500, away to charity leaving him with just £485 a month to live off.

The part-time farmer's proudest and most valuable possessions are his tired-looking Volkswagen Beetle and his three-legged dog Manuela.

Water comes from a well which is surrounded by overgrown weeds and the laundry goes not in a tumble dryer but on the washing line outside.

But Mr Mijuca, a former left-wing revolutionary, says he has no interest in amassing a fortune. 

He says he has all he needs and that material wealth does not buy happiness.

Speaking to the BBC he said: '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,' he says.

'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 have more time for yourself,' he says.

'I may appear to be an eccentric old man... But this is a free choice.'

Charismatic Uruguayan president Jose Mujica has refused to adapt his lifestyle to match the trappings of wealth that come with being the country's most powerful figure and he still lives on his farm


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