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In the dispute over the plagiarism cases, the Giffey Family Minister has drawn conclusions and resigned her doctorate. But she is still a federal minister. That doesn’t change anything about his bid for the SPD presidency in Berlin.
On the issue of plagiarism in her dissertation, Federal Minister of the Franziska Giffey Family (SPD) renounces her doctorate. She is taking this step to “avoid further harm to my family, my political work and my party,” she said in a letter to the Free University of Berlin.
However, she wants to continue her work as a federal minister and, as announced, run for state presidency at the SPD party congress in Berlin in late November.
At the end of November, Giffey, together with the leader of the Berlin SPD parliamentary group, Raed Saleh, will be elected to the new dual leadership of the regional association of the capital. She is also expected to be elected as the top candidate for the House of Representatives elections in the fall of 2021 in December.
University announced renewed review
On Friday of last week, the Presidium of the Free University of Berlin announced that the process of Giffey’s doctoral thesis would be reopened. The Presidium has thus reviewed its unanimously approved decision a year ago “with no new facts,” said Giffey.
She confirmed that she had written the thesis “to the best of the knowledge and belief”, but was unwilling to make her thesis a “subject of political disputes”.
Giffey had submitted a doctoral thesis in 2009 and received his Ph.D. a year later. According to the VroniPlag website, 76 out of 205 pages were found to contain plagiarism. This corresponds to a 37.1 percent share of all parties, according to activists.
When the complaints were known, it was said that “literal and analogous acquisitions should not be identified.” In other cases, the author also fully or partially supported the statements with sources “that appear to have been arbitrarily chosen” or with which the corresponding passage of text cannot be adequately substantiated.
