“February Surprise” is the candidate for Prime Minister Robert Habeck, the German Green Party on both sides, and the only two weeks left before a well-known media researcher headed out to vote for the plagiarism finance minister. I was accused of.
The Greens suffered a decline in support during their stay with Prime Minister Olaf Scholz's “Loader” coalition government, but the party was bolstered in the Snap election campaign due to the political performance of finance minister and deputy prime minister Robert Habeck. . The Left Party proposed to be the prime minister's candidate for the February 23 election.
But the burgeoning scandal has threatened that it could overturn the rise of the green and prevent political parties from staying in government.
Austrian prominent “plagiarism hunter” Dr. Stephen Weber accused her of citing unscientific and dishonest methods in a dissertation at the University of Hamburg. Claim, Published This week, the online media portal Nius claims that Green's politicians cited quotes from great philosophers and writers from secondary sources, presenting them as if they had read the original work themselves. .
Weber argued that Habeck cited 24 works in his paper, but in fact only read four. The Plagiarism Hunter presented an excerpt from Habeck's paper. This contains the same error as the quadratic source error of the quotes, indicating that the original text was not read by Habeck.
This form of plagiarism is called “sauce plagiarism,” and the Medical University of Vienna defines it as follows: The sources used are kept secret and simulate unique research performance. ”
Nius argued that Habeck used his background as “intelligent” to distinguish himself from other German politicians, “this reached the culmination of how Habeck succeeded.” He pointed out.
The plagiarism accusations have been taken very seriously in Germany; Resignation of several Cabinet Ministers In the past. Also Annarena Bearbock, a fellow leader of the Greens' Habeck. defendant By Dr. Weber, Plagiarized in her book Now: How we update our country, This appeared to have taken several passages from the news publication without credit.
The accusation is one of the reasons Baerbock didn't move himself forward again as the party's prime minister candidate, and is argued that he chose to support Habeck instead.
Habeck has explained The allegations of plagiarism were “basically unfounded” and claim that the University of Hamburg has revealed he has violated academic standards. He admitted that “they said there were some inaccuracies,” and that was a matter of his quoting error and had nothing to do with “quality of work.”
However, the university has not investigated Dr. Weber's specific allegations and will not have time to do so before the February 23 election.
Habeck also argued that the allegations are politically motivated, saying, “If someone has put in a lot of effort and someone has paid it… if they see it 12 days before the election, then others will accidentally say it. I have to think about whether there is a possibility that it will be. I don't know this.”
Nius is run by the former top-selling editor-in-chief of digital building Julian Reichelt of the newspaper refused to entrust Weber with an investigation of Habeck's paper.
The scandal could have a serious impact on future post-election voting and coalition building processes.
According to Forsa investigation Of German voters, the Greens currently ranks fourth at 14%, following 16% Prime Minister Olaf Scholz, German Right-wing Populists Alternatives (AFD) and 20% right-wing populists' alternatives, Christianity 29% of the Democratic Party (CDU) and Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU) are “unions”.
Despite significant disagreements with the Greens and SPD on important issues such as the economy and migration, union leader Friedrich Merz has so far excluded the coalition government with the AFD.
The latest forecast for the seats in the Bundestag Council is predicted that the CDU/CSU and SPD combination will have a coalition between CDU/CSU and Green with 333 and 319 seats, both of which are It is expected to exceed the 316 threshold. It is necessary for a majority of Congress.
Green's far left position on scandal veterans and immigration makes an alliance with the SPD appear more likely. The union and SPD were ruled together under Chancellor Angela Merkel between 2013 and 2021.
