On Wednesday, the Chamber of Deputies will vote on a simple motion against Interior Minister Lucian Bode, submitted by USR and discussed in plenary on Monday.

The signatories of the petition “Romania deserves more than thieves in public office” claim that with this action they sought to draw attention to the “unacceptable delay in the public office of a person who does not deserve it”, because “he does it”. do not deserve an academic title” or “the respect of people who worked honestly in Romania”.

“In the strange situation of appearing before Romanians and the whole world with a police chief who has been proven to be a thief, the Romanian government is obliged to take measures to restore the dignity of its democratic institutions. The purpose of this proposal is to draw attention to the unacceptable delay in a government position of a person who does not deserve it, just as he does not deserve his academic title or the respect of any person who has worked honestly in this country. The current Home Secretary cases, Lucian Bode not only refuses to take responsibility for his own facts, but with an offensive statement he tries to turn the discussion into a banal exchange of political remarks, while at the same time launching a legal offensive, doubled by a media campaign designed to present a partial, lying and sometimes frankly ridiculous” – the text of the submission reads .

Home Secretary Lucian Bodet said during the debate that the simple submission against him was a “concerted political attack” and that the allegations of plagiarism regarding his doctoral thesis were unfounded and “some functional illiterates” were trying to smear him and “crucify him”. public square” regarding his academic and professional career.

“Today, some functional illiterates try to smear me, they crucify me in the public square about my academic and professional career, some who don’t know how to write a resume, who graduated from college in two years or who stutter when they have to explain about how they received their diplomas. In 2018, in full compliance with all the rules and standards in force at the time, the similarity of the anti-plagiarism reports of Babeş – Bolyai University to the reports of the members of the Support Committee, after public support, my thesis received a very good qualifications and magna cum laude,” the minister said.