The story of whether Cristina
Cifuentes had somehow claimed a fake master’s degree from the Juan Carlos
University leads the news this week. Cifuentes is the President of the
Community of Madrid since 24 June 2015, following on from the disgraced Ignacio
González. She is a ‘clean brush’ after the González wave of corruption. "The
era of the corrupt has come to an end in the Madrid Community," said
Cifuentes in her day.
Ms Cifuentes gave a presentation
in the Asamblea de Madrid, the regional parliament, this Wednesday afternoon
(April 4), saying that the title was genuine. She furthermore claimed that the
scandal was fabricated to try and destabilise the Government – a classic piece
of ‘fake news’, nothing more. Even El
País was unimpressed ('Cifuentes didn't convince' was their Thursday headline).
‘The document that Cristina
Cifuentes used to try to prove that she completed her master's degree at the Rey Juan Carlos University in 2012 was
fabricated on March 21st; just hours after the scandal broke. At least two of
the three women professors' signatures that appear in the supposed act of
presentation of the master's dissertation of the president of Madrid were
falsified, as confirmed to El
Confidencial by sources at the university's Institute of Public Law, the body on which the degree depends...’.
The PSOE has since announced that it will call for a vote of confidence in the
Madrid regional government, which Ciudadanos says it won’t support until a full
enquiry is carried out.
We are left with this
question – ‘Why in Spain would most politicians rather die than resign?’. The answer might be that, this is all they know. In other
countries, disgraced politicians blithely return to their previous
occupations... here, they often have
no previous occupation...
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