Mujica, Uruguay’s champion of the poor, steps down

‘Uruguayan President Jose Mujica, commonly known as the world’s poorest president, has stepped down from his post after five years of ruling the country under his spartan style.

Mujica’s five year term in office finished Sunday after Tabare Vazquez was sworn in as Uruguay’s new president in the capital Montevideo.

The 79-year old Mujica, who left office with a high approval rate, enjoyed huge public support during his reign with his spartan lifestyle and popular policies being the most relishing. He insisted on living in his farm instead of the luxurious presidential mansions and he kept driving an outdated Volkswagen Beetle despite a $1 million offer from an Arab sheikh to buy the car.’

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