| Author (Person) | Negrier-Pascaud, Mathilde |
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| Publisher | Cardiff EDC |
| Series Details | April 2018 |
| Publication Date | 27/04/2018 |
| Content Type | News |
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Further information: The head of the region of Madrid, Cristina Cifuentes, resigned on Wednesday after claims she had falsified her master’s degree and been caught shoplifting in 2011, the latest blow to the ruling People’s Party (PP) ahead of regional elections next year. A video from 2011, published on the OK Diario website, showed her handing items to a supermarket security guard. The master’s degree scandal broke out last month when eldiario.es, a news website, reported a string of alleged irregularities in Cifuentes’ graduate degree in public law. The website accused her of having done no course work or sat any exams. Cifuentes denied wrongdoing or preferential treatment, threatened to sue the site and released a copy of a university document. The scandal involved a master’s degree Cifuentes allegedly obtained fraudulently from the King Juan Carlos University in Madrid in 2012, having supposedly never attended classes or taken exams. Cifuentes denied wrongdoing or preferential treatment, threatened to sue the site and released a copy of a university document. Nevertheless, she returned the qualification, denying having done anything wrong and blaming the university for any irregularities. Her resignation is a setback for the PP because she was seen by many as a potential future leader of the party as a member of a different generation untarnished by past corruption, and was expected to run in next year’s elections. Cifuentes headed the region of Madrid since 2015 thanks to the support of Ciudadanos, which had also threatened to join a motion of confidence to force her resignation after the master’s scandal broke. |
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| Countries / Regions | Spain |
