Sánchez threatens legal action over claims of PhD 'plagiarism'
Friday, September 14, 2018 @ 10:37 PM
HOT on the heels of accusations about the now-ex health minister Carmen Montón's master's degree dissertation including plagiarisms, Spain's right-wing opposition is now accusing socialist president Pedro Sánchez of doing likewise in his PhD thesis.
Sánchez is not the only one to be furious about the opposition's attempt to 'discredit what took him years of hard work' – Madrid's Camilo José Cela University has also spoken out.
It points out that a PhD is written and researched under the close guidance of two supervisors and fully reviewed by a panel before the award is granted.
The university says it has 'thoroughly reviewed' the 'internal and external evaluation processes' of the thesis presented by Dr Pedro Sánchez-Castejón in the year 2012, when he was 40 years of age, and confirms the 'complete normality of the procedures, in line with legislation in force and the habitual verification and control protocol' of the institution.
The accusations erupted after a report in right-wing international newspaper ABC claimed most of the thesis was written by famed economist Carlos Ocaña.
Sánchez has announced legal action for libel against ABC, which says it does not intend to change one word of its article and would be pleased to see the president's evidence to the contrary.
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