“I am announcing today, with immediate effect, that I am going to cut my salary and bonuses by 25%,” said Liberia’s new president George Weah. It was during his first “State of the Nation Address.” Weah made this decision in the face of the economic difficulties the country is going through.
He calls on parliamentarians to do the same. Let’s note that Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s pay (to which he succeeds the head of the state), amounted to 90,000 dollars a year. It also plans to revisit the constitution: notably, the prohibition for foreigners to own property, and for citizens to hold another nationality. But also the article reserving citizenship to “people of color”.
Another important point of his intervention: his desire to make education a “constant and essential priority” of his administration.