Thursday 5 April 2018

Fresh Trouble for the Partido Popular


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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