Interior Minister Lucian Bode on Friday avoided answering whether he would remain in the new cabinet headed by Marcel Cholaku, but insisted he had no problem with plagiarism. Bode has brought several lawsuits against the University of Babes-Bolay (UBB) in Cluj-Napoca, which found that he had plagiarized his doctoral thesis, and he has so far lost three of them.

• “I assure you that there are no problems (any plagiarism), and the court will prove it.
• Both I and any candidate for the minister’s seat will submit to the vote of the National Political Bureau of the party. If I make this decision and express my intention to continue working in the ministry, I will do so first in front of my colleagues from the BPN,” Bode said when asked by reporters if he would also be part of the new government given the plagiarism issues his doctoral thesis.

In January, the Ethics Commission of Babes-Bolyai University analyzed the doctoral thesis of Interior Minister Lucian Bode and concluded that “the vast majority of suspicions of plagiarism are confirmed” and that “the revealed ethical violations” are important enough to conclude that the thesis is deeply flawed.

• Lucian Bode is not resigning after the plagiarism ruling: I will go forward, to court, because it is the only right way. I regret that UBB succumbed to pressure
• The party instructs liberals to attack journalist Emilia Serkan. A PNL evaluation with “key messages” for Lucian Bode’s Ph.D

The ethics committee asked Bode to correct the thesis and withdraw the book published on its basis. It also reports to the CNATDCU/National Research Ethics Board “for further action as required by law.”

• READ HERE THE FULL DECISION OF THE ETHICS COMMISSION OF BABESH BOLYAI UNIVERSITY

The commission reported on itself after PressOne, under the signature of journalist Emilia Sherkan, published an analysis according to which Interior Minister Lucian Bode’s doctoral dissertation contains at least 18.5% plagiarized text, as well as 6 completely plagiarized illustrations and another 30 incorrectly cited. . Initially, the Ethics Committee did not examine the entire doctoral thesis of the Minister of the Interior, Lucian Bode, but only the fragments that were found to be plagiarized, finding that the fragments identified as containing a problem of plagiarism represented approximately 1,923 words out of 65,000 words. theses (2.95%).

Louisian Bodet has since opened several lawsuits

Bode filed several lawsuits against Babes-Boyai University, demanding, among other things, the suspension of the January decision, according to which UBB recognized his dissertation as plagiarized, as well as the suspension of UBB’s decision to self-report the examination of his dissertation and to co-opt him to an external expert committee.

Until earlier this week, Lucian Bode had lost three of those lawsuits, according to journalist Emilia Serkan, who launched the doctoral allegations.