UDMR President Kelemen Hunor said on Tuesday that plagiarism is intellectual theft and added that the issue of plagiarism in Interior Minister Lucian Bode’s doctoral thesis should be dealt with by him, not the PNL, the government or parliament.

Asked by Prima News if NLP has flaws after the interior minister’s PhD thesis plagiarism scandal, Kelemen Hunor said: “Of course there is. This is an image issue, but I don’t want to comment on how she does and how she manages the PNL on this issue.(…) This problem is solved by the person in question, not the party, not the government, not the parliament. Mr. Bode is the man in office (…) As Kelemen Hunor cannot solve this problem with Lucian Bode, neither Marcel Colacu nor anyone else can solve it, only Lucian Bode can solve it and I am convinced that he will “.

The leader of UDMR estimated that plagiarism is intellectual stealing.

“Plagiarism, if it is proven, if there is a definitive solution, is intellectual theft, regardless of who did it and regardless of whether it is 4%. There is no need to play with percentages here, I would like to have a single measure, not a double measure, when we weigh it. I also said that I would not comment further because we are colleagues. This does not mean that I do not have a very clear point of view on this matter, although I do not read the work of Lucian Bode,” he stated.

(source: Agerpres)