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Azzolina, the League against the Minister of Education for the copied thesis. Salvini: “Be ashamed and go home”

ROME. “Doing worse than Minister Fioramonti seemed impossible. And instead Azzolina amazes us: not only takes sides against precarious workers but now we find that he also copies his degree theses. Such a minister has no right to give (and do) lessons. Crazy stuff Be ashamed and go home “so the League secretary Matteo Salvini on the case of plagiarism starring the Minister of Education Lucia Azzolina. In the same direction the criticisms of the League deputy Giorgia Latini, vice president of the Culture Commission at Montecitorio: “What reported by the columns of Republic today it is very serious. We will ask Minister Azzolina to come immediately to the Chamber to report and resign immediately, as his counterparts in other countries have done in the past, because Italians and the world of school deserve respect and truth “.

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The thesis of the Education manager, on which it shed light Massimo Arcangeli, linguist and literary critic, was found to contain large excerpts copied from unmentioned sources. Whole paragraphs copied from specialist manuals, without citations, thus making them pass for own.

The group leader in the Chamber also raises his voice from the benches of the League, Riccardo Molinari: “What does the 5-star Movement say about the press revelations that would accuse their minister Azzolina of plagiarism? Why has silence fallen today in the party that has always shouted at the scandal and pointed, Azzolina in the first place, as you show your opponents politicians in the name of transparency and honesty? If you have something to say, Azzolina say it, otherwise apologize and step aside. “

To ask the resignation of Azzolina is also Rossano Sasso, which by the Chamber’s Culture, Science and Education Commission has no difficulty in torpedoing the work of the pentastellate minister: “Che la nomina (by Azzolina, ed) it would have turned out to be a disaster for the Italian school, we had imagined it – declares the League – but the alleged plagiarism of the specialization thesis also adds malice for lying for attributing studies that are not proper. A very serious fact, which, if confirmed, in addition to casting long shadows on the competence of the 5-star minister, weighs on the credibility and reliability of a representative of this government. Even more unfortunate, if you think that the Azzolina with the school decree has cut tens of thousands of precarious third-tier workers off the qualifying path, justifying itself with phantom criteria of transparency and merit, it is she who is now called on transparency and merit to clarify. “

“Official apology and resignation”, also asks the Northern League senator and party education director, Mario Pittoni: “There are no alternatives, if the incorrectness in your degree thesis is well founded.

The minister Lucia Azzolina was named together with Gaetano Manfredi – Minister of University and Research – to replace Lorenzo Fioramonti after his resignation in controversy over the lack of university funding. “That the Giallorossi government had little consideration for school and education was evident from the cuts in the Budget law, but the appointment of a minister who made his thesis with copy-and-paste – explains the League representative – adds insult to injury. “

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The Minister of the School has three theses behind her, between degrees and specializations. One of these is initola: A case of mild mental retardation associated with depressive disorders, a 41-page work presented at the University of Pisa, at the specialization school for secondary education in Tuscany. The first passage takes literally a passage from the Dictionary of Psychology by Umberto Galimberti, while the second reproduces a passage of the voice “mental retardation” by Luigi Ravizza, Gabriele Masi, Mara Marchesi and Pietro Pfanner of Italian treatise on psychiatry.

“Honesty” and “competence” are the most recurring terms among the first reactions shared on social networks. “Bad example for our students!”, He writes in a tweet Nicola Calandrini, senator of Fratelli d’Italia. And many on Twitter remember how in 2017 for a similar case of alleged plagiarism the then Minister for Simplification and Public Education Marianna Madia was criticized above all by the Grillino front, which came to ask for her resignation. There are also those who, with good reason, recall that a similar plagiarism abroad would be worth the resignation for a minister, especially if he is deputy to lead the Education Department. Among these the economist Alberto Bagnai, professor at the D’Annunzio University of Abruzzo, who recalls the case of the German Defense Holder Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, forced to step aside in 2011 because he was accused of copying his doctoral thesis four years earlier.


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