The Board of Directors Congress approved last December additional trusted staff module for legislators who request it and without defined limits.
According to a report from the Sunday newspaper Panorama, there are 45 workers hired under this regime and their salaries range from 7,000 to 15,000 soles. This generates an expense for the State of S/ 3,800,454.
The trusted personnel are all those workers hired without competition and by decision of the congressmen. With the agreement, parliamentarians will be able to increase their staff for the legislative committees, working groups and offices only until the end of this Board of Directors.
jorge villenaadviser to the president of the Congress, was hired under this regime by authorization of José Williams himself. The head of Parliament was the first to take advantage of this new modality.
In the report, another agreement approved by the Board of Directors was also known, in which it is indicated that it is possible, by exception, to authorize additional hiring with higher levels of positions in each category. In other words, personnel qualified as assistants can be placed at level eight, with a higher salary.
Jose Cevascowho was a Senior Official of Congress, resigned last Thursday following making himself known various journalistic reports regarding alleged excessive spending on goods and services within Parliament.
“About the journalistic events of the last days, (…) my resignation from office, basically, is for reasons of a political nature. Under no point of view are they related to events of an administrative nature. And this has to do with the resolution of the various presidencies of the Congress on the delegation of administrative powers to the various general administration directorates that Congress has had,” he said.
parliamentary trips
The Sunday newspaper Panorama also denounced that the Congress of the republic he spent a million and a half soles on the different trips of legislators to countries like Rwanda, Switzerland and Hungary. On this list are some parliamentarians such as Maria Del Carmen Alva, Américo Gonza, Enrique Wong y Ernest Bustamanteamong others.
He Parliament issued a statement following the report was released, specifying that the legislators’ work trips are carried out within the framework of their representation function before different congresses, international organizations and organizations that bring together parliamentarians from around the world.