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| (2012-06-20) |
| Last updated: 2012-06-21 11:30 EET |
The Romanian Minister of Culture, actor Mircea Diaconu, has left the ministry seat after the High Court of Cassation and Justice in Bucharest ruled that he was incompatible with this position. After having held a theatre director position concurrently with his term in office as Senator of Romania, he was banned from holding a public post for three years.
Mircea Diaconu is the second minister to resign from Victor Ponta’s cabinet. In early May, shortly after Victor Ponta was entrusted with putting together a new government, professor Corina Dumitrescu was nominated for the Education Minister seat. In her case, journalists discovered that in 2007 she was accused of plagiarism and that she submitted false statements about her education.
Her place was taken by Ioan Mang, who was in his turn accused of plagiarism one month later. Mang resigned, but claimed he was a victim of the Liberal Democratic Party, the main opposition party in Romania. At that time, PM Victor Ponta sent a letter to the Romanian Academy, calling for a committee of specialists to investigate plagiarism accusations.
The Academy later dropped the investigation into Mang’s case. Another official, Victor Alistar, originally nominated as minister delegate for governmental strategies in Ponta’s team, could not be confirmed because of a trial over an alleged incompatibility case. Incompatibility and plagiarism cases are the two faults, or accidents, that seem to mar the performance of the fresh government of the Social Liberal Union, which came to power after a spectacular twist in Parliament in May.
And, as if these cases were not enough, the government is now faced with another top-level problem: Prime Minister Victor Ponta himself was accused of plagiarism in the British magazine “Nature.” After an incriminating story based on information from anonymous sources, the German publication “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” in its turn claimed that it had evidence on the alleged intellectual fraud.
The PM officially rejected the claims, and argued that they originate with the President of Romania, Traian Basescu. Until an evaluation of Victor Ponta’s Ph.D. thesis is completed, the mass media discuss the increasing frequency of plagiarism cases in the European political circles, after the ones involving the president of Hungary Pal Schmitt and the German defense minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttemberg. Admitting that they breached scientific regulations, both officials had to resign their public positions.
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