A simple house in a small coastal town. That's enough for Uruguay's incoming president Yamandú Orsi, who declines the country's large presidential palace in the capital Montevideo.
We're staying here in Salinas. My children go to school and they'll do it here, says the left-wing politician who won the presidential election in November and takes office on March 1.
He is thus following in the footsteps of his mentor Jose "Pepe" Mujica, who during his presidential term 2010-2015 was referred to as the "world's poorest president" since he, among other things, donated most of his salary to charity and drove around in an old Volkswagen.
