In just four months of administration, the president’s trips José María Balcázar within the national territory have cost the Presidential Office and to the Executive more than one million soles, as revealed by “Cuarto Poder”.
According to the Sunday newspaper, the total cost amounts to S/1 million 124 thousand, an amount to which must be added the fuel for the aircraft, the deployment of the personnel of the Peruvian Air Force (FAP) and all the logistics that are activated in Air Group No. 8.
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Balcázar Zelada not only uses military aircraft, but also commercial flights. On other occasions he uses the presidential plane, Army aircraft or a FAP C-27J model. Of the 19 flights he records, eleven were made to his native region, Lambayeque.
Every time you need to move within your region, a helicopter is ordered and taken to the area from the Vraem either Piuraan aircraft that must fly over three hours there and three hours back to meet this need.
Just ten days after taking office, on February 28, he made a trip to Chiclayo on a Boeing 737-500 with 28 passengers on board. This one-day visit meant an expense of S/46,801 in travel expenses for the Presidential Office and S/30 thousand 704 for accompanying ministers, adding up to a total of S/77 thousand.
Two weeks later, the secretary general of the Presidential Office, Alonso Tenorio Trigosorequested a plane to go to Chiclayo and two helicopters for a trip to Jaén, so they had to pay about S/150 thousand for the use of the helicopters.
This amount does not take into account the overflight from Chiclayo to Jaén and does not include travel expenses, which on that occasion reached S/92 thousand in travel expenses.
In the month of April, the president’s agenda focused exclusively on Lambayeque, recording four trips that cost S/166,345 per month. Presidential Office.
These transfers coincided with the holidays of Easter week (April 2 to 6), the day of the first round of the general elections (April 12) and weekends to tour the Olmos area.
These trips included Thursday, April 30, where no official activity was recorded on the president’s agenda, despite the fact that he mobilized the entire presidential entourage and his security fence.
José María Balcázar He used the presidential plane 9 times. On other occasions he used the FAP’s C-27J. His recurring destination was Chiclayo. Sources from the aeronautical sector indicated that these aircraft consume thousands of liters of fuel in each operation.
The presidential flight documents themselves show that each trip required an average of around 11 thousand liters of fuel. Translated into money, it represents an approximate expense of S/ 224 thousand 638 in this area.
