Tuesday, 22. February 2011
Topic: POLITIK - on February 22, 2011 at 11:46:00 AM CET
Guttenberg Drops 'Doctor' to Save 'Minister'
German Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg is under pressure to resign amid allegations he plagiarized parts of his Ph.D. thesis. Angela Merkel and other leading conservatives are worried the popular politician could fall, just when they need him to drum up votes ahead of crunch state elections. Now Guttenberg has announced he is giving up his doctor title.
Bavarian Governor Horst Seehofer is one of the last great jokers in German politics. But when he spoke on Monday, he made sure that his words contained not the slightest trace of irony or ambiguity. "I told him: 'You have my full support.' That was true then and it's still true now," Seehofer insisted. "We stand fast. And we stay put. You can count on that."
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