The Peruvian left seeks to revoke the 120% salary increase granted to Dina Boluarte.

The Peruvian left has introduced eight different bills in Congress seeking to reverse President Dina Boluarte's salary increase after she announced she would raise her salary by 120%, claiming that it is "unacceptable" and "lacks institutional legitimacy."

The proposals announced so far have been promoted by the Socialist Party, the Popular Democratic Bloc, and Together for Peru-Voces del Pueblo, all left-wing groups that have agreed in requesting that Supreme Decree No. 136-2025-EF, regarding the change in Boluarte's remuneration, as reported by the newspaper 'El Peruano', be repealed.

Along these lines, various measures and initiatives have been proposed, including not only the promotion of a "multiparty bill" aimed at repealing the decree in question, but also the interpellation of Prime Minister Eduardo Arana and Economy Minister Raúl Pérez Reyes, the minister responsible for the department that produced the technical report supporting Boluarte's salary increase.

In the first of these cases, the votes in favor came from the parties of Podemos Peru, Somos Peru, Perú Libre, Renovación Popular, Honor y Democracia, Acción Popular, the Socialist Party, and the Popular Democratic Bloc. However, no congressperson from Fuerza Popular took part in the vote on the proposal.

The third of the proposed initiatives would seek to send a letter to the Speaker of Congress, Eduardo Salhuana, requesting that he summon the president before the Legislature to demand that she "technically, legally, and financially support the increase in her monthly salary."

The president's entourage has justified her new salary by arguing that "the president is the highest authority and holds the highest rank among the nation's public officials, according to the Constitution," and that, "consequently, she could not continue to receive a salary that was not commensurate with her rank."

However, left-wingers have called the controversial legislation "a slap in the face to Peru's poverty" and criticized the fact that, "in a context of social, economic, and institutional legitimacy crisis, it is unacceptable that clear explanations are not provided," in the words of Podemos Peru representative Juan Burgos, as reported by the newspaper 'El Comercio'.

In similar terms, Congressman Edgard Reymundo, from the Popular Democratic Bloc, added that the decree "has no sufficient technical basis and is politically irrelevant."

Other parliamentarians have condemned the fact that, while Boluarte's salary increase cannot be considered "technically incorrect" in itself, it came "at an inappropriate political moment." From this perspective, the measure has been described as "technically positive, but politically absolutely incorrect and inopportune."

The debate surrounding the Peruvian president's salary has dominated the country's public sphere after the Council of Ministers approved last Wednesday that the president would increase her salary from 15,600 soles (approximately 3,700 euros) to 35,500 soles (8,500 euros). The decree was made official on Friday, already published with Boluarte's signature.

Shortly after, the Peruvian Congress's Oversight Committee agreed to summon the president to a plenary session of Parliament to address the legislation that would double her salary and approved a first bill seeking to nullify the increase.