Fernando Iglesias spent nearly 750,000 pesos on per diems for Congress

In addition to being distinguished by the aggressions with which it is generally treated in the social networks and on television, the ultramacrista deputy. Fernando Iglesias He has at least one merit at the National Congress: It is the legislator of Cambiemos who has made more official trips abroad over the last two years, remunerated with public resources. He even traveled more than Cornelia Schmidt Liermann, president of the Foreign Relations Commission, and the president of this body, Emilio Monzó, both members of the PRO.

As stated in the official archives of the lower house (here and here), the travels of the volleyball teacher and the "journalist specializing in the political affairs of globalization" this cost the State a daily allowance of $ 12,691. At the exchange rate of today, about 736 000 pesos. In his capacity as national deputy, he left the country nine times, while Schmidt Liermann had six and Monzó seven. In total, Cambiemos has 91 excursions, of which 63 correspond to the PRO.

From February 2018 to August 2019 (latest available data), Iglesias has visited many of the most important cities in the world New York, Rome, Madrid, Vienna, Geneva, Budapest, Brussels and Tokyo. There was also some time to settle in two Latin American cities: Brasilia and Montevideo.

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Several of the MP's activities related to his membership in the World Federalist Movement (WFM), others to participation in the session of the National Executive Committee of the Colorado Party of Uruguay. He also participated in the seminar "How to bademble parliamentary bademblies" and in bilateral meetings on trafficking in human beings and the Italian Anti-Mafia Commission

As for the rest of the blocks, the Victory Front followed with 29 trips, the Renovator's Front with 16 and the PJ with 10.