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Mario Voigt, the Minister-President of Thuringia, has withdrawn his lawsuit against the revocation of his doctorate due to politically motivated plagiarism allegations, which raises the debate about the political exploitation of such allegations and the responsibility of universities in ensuring the quality of doctoral degrees once again. #Plagiatsvorwürfe #Politik #Wissenschaft (translated)

A comment criticizes that plagiarism accusations against politicians like Mario Voigt are often politically motivated and emphasizes the necessity to address scientific misconduct objectively and independently of political power struggles. #Plagiatsvorwürfe #Wissenschaft #Politik (translated)

Gr@ntlɘr referred to Voigt, Wadephul, Schulze, and Frei as "fire builders of the CDU" and wrote that they were coming to a crisis summit with Merz. He asked if anyone believed that any of them could still do anything good for Germany. https://t.co/CjgkrOGraT #CDU #Krisengipfel #Politik (translated)

After a series of electoral defeats, several CDU politicians, including Mario Voigt and Dennis Radtke, are calling for a clearer course and a stronger focus on the everyday problems of the people, while the party presidency under Chancellor Merz is discussing possible consequences. #CDU #Neustart #Politik (translated)

We need to talk about how life becomes affordable for people again. For the answer to this question, the CDU must again reflect on what it was elected for in the federal elections, demanded Thuringia's Prime Minister Mario Voigt in an interview with the dpa news agency. #CDU #Krise #Wahlen (translated)

The author criticized what he sees as the dishonest handling of the plagiarism scandal #Voigt once again. He wrote that the AfD needs an absolute majority in Germany and the FPÖ in Austria. Only in this way, he added, can anything be achieved. https://t.co/Vm5apIMtSV #Politik #Deutschland #Österreich #DE #AT (translated)

Felix Perrefort wrote that plagiarism problems among politicians arise because they write dissertations mainly to enhance their resumes and often lack a serious research interest. Such works are often difficult to read and are rarely read outside of assessments; instead of demonstrating their own intellectual achievements, they convey an appearance of scholarly merit. According to Perrefort, only those who truly want to discover something new should write a dissertation. Only people who want to fully dedicate themselves to science should strive for a doctorate. He described it as indecent to present others with 200 to 400-page texts that are merely obligatory exercises and therefore insignificant. Perrefort questioned which politicians felt the need to profile themselves with a doctoral thesis. He described them as career politicians without a "solid foundation of an acquired profession" and wrote that they neither mastered politics nor science. Mario Voigt embodies this problem particularly strongly, Perrefort claimed, accusing him of being unable to say anything about Auschwitz without AI and of lacking independent thoughts. #Plagiat #Doktortitel #Wissenschaft (translated)

Jörg Friedrich described Thuringia's Prime Minister Mario Voigt as a fraud and wrote that his official car is a BMW 740 xDrive with a diesel engine. BMW had not canceled the order for the successor vehicle; Friedrich characterized the car disparagingly as a mafia vehicle. He referred to other rulers with BMW vehicles: Libya's dictator Muammar al-Gaddafi owned an armored 7 Series, and several BMWs of this model were found in the abandoned car collection of the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad. There were reports in 2019 about the delivery of around 120 BMWs for the King of Eswatini, Mswati III, and his family. North Korea's ruler Kim Jong-un was also seen in a Rolls-Royce Phantom in 2018, Friedrich wrote, noting that the brand belongs to the BMW Group. Finally, Friedrich asked whether the AfD is not getting a BMW and addressed Elon. #BMW #Politik #Korruption (translated)

Heimatgefühl criticized that Hendrik Wüst had shown respect to Mario Voigt. Voigt had explained that he had withdrawn the lawsuit due to the associated time expenditure. The author wrote that someone who is in the right would not simply withdraw a lawsuit and would not let a real doctorate be taken away from them. Therefore, in his opinion, Voigt presumably remains a plagiarist. Heimatgefühl interpreted the support from within the ranks as characteristic of the CDU and predicted that the party would soon be in single digits. It deserved that. #CDU #Politik #Klage (translated)

Tichys Einblick reported that Mario Voigt has given up the fight against the withdrawal of his doctorate and presented his defeat as a great service to Thuringia. Kretschmer and Wüst celebrated him as a model statesman. The phrasing "Inside CDU" was still benevolent; the loss of touch with reality of the CDU is increasingly taking on disturbing forms, the medium wrote. https://t.co/VRdLZIj302 #Politik #Thüringen #CDU (translated)

Kolja Barghoorn wrote that Klöckner considers Tobias Rausch's dual role to be entirely inappropriate. However, he pointed out that what is crucial is who holds a position and how it is exercised. Klöckner should quickly reflect critically on himself in this context. Additionally, Barghoorn asked what is going on with Voigt and Schulze. https://t.co/qJrCy12b3e #Politik #Debatte #Gesellschaft (translated)

The author accused Julia Klöckner of not considering it completely inappropriate that her CDU party colleague Mario Voigt wants to remain the Prime Minister of Thuringia despite having his doctorate revoked. He labeled Voigt a plagiarism fraudster. https://t.co/JQO8auRjbj #CDU #Thüringen #Plagiatsvorwurf (translated)

Carsten Jahn from TEAM HEIMAT criticized that Friedrich Merz, the CDU, and the SPD, as well as Thuringia's Prime Minister Mario Voigt, held onto power despite the plagiarism affair. Voigt withdrew his objection without anything changing afterward, Jahn wrote. He called the move a power-political maneuver. Jahn claimed that new elections would harm the CDU in Thuringia and at the federal level. The SPD, Thuringia Gerecht, and the Left would be punished and could possibly be ousted from the state parliament, he wrote. https://t.co/ylU2howLIJ #Thüringen #CDU #SPD (translated)

The author wrote that Mario Voigt would soon no longer hold the doctorate title with legal validity and had given up his professorship at Quadriga University. The university had previously touted him as an outstanding expert on its website. Voigt's doctoral advisor Eckhard had been referred to as an "extremism researcher"; the author expressed disdain for this designation. #Wissenschaft #Hochschule #Akademia #DE (translated)