{"id":92243,"date":"2018-09-30T22:45:13","date_gmt":"2018-09-30T22:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/spains-health-minister-steps-down-over-degree-scandal-8\/"},"modified":"2018-09-30T22:45:13","modified_gmt":"2018-09-30T22:45:13","slug":"spains-health-minister-steps-down-over-degree-scandal-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/spains-health-minister-steps-down-over-degree-scandal-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Spains health minister steps down over degree scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spains health minister, Carmen Mont\u00f3n, resigned her post Tuesday after being caught up in an academic scandal.<\/p>\n<p>Mont\u00f3n stepped down over allegations she was awarded a masters degree in 2011 on the basis of fraudulent grades.<\/p>\n<p>Spanish media <a href=\"https:\/\/elpais.com\/politica\/2018\/09\/11\/actualidad\/1536664736_500550.html\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> Tuesday that the university that awarded the degree \u2014 the King Juan Carlos University (URJC) in Madrid \u2014 was investigating changes to Mont\u00f3ns file that showed her passing all parts of the course, when in fact at least one part had not been submitted.<\/p>\n<p>The university said Mont\u00f3ns \u201cfile is being reviewed course by course, to establish in which context these grade changes that have been revealed by an inspection were made,\u201d according to <a href=\"https:\/\/elpais.com\/elpais\/2018\/09\/11\/inenglish\/1536658337_758907.html\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">El Pa\u00eds<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At a press conference, Mont\u00f3n insisted she had not \u201ccommitted any irregularity,\u201d and that she could say this with \u201ca very calm conscience.\u201d She added that her decision to step down was because she did not want \u201cthis situation\u201d to impact the governments work.<\/p>\n<p>Mont\u00f3n is the second minister to resign since Prime Minister Pedro S\u00e1nchez took office in June. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/maxim-huerta-spain-new-culture-minister-steps-down-over-tax-fine\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">M\u00e0xim Huerta stepped down<\/a> as culture and sports minister following reports he had been fined for avoiding paying hundreds of thousands of euros in taxes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/cristina-cifuentes-spain-corruption-mariano-rajoy-pp-degree-scandal-hits-at-heart-of-government\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Former Madrid regional premier Cristina Cifuentes<\/a> and current leader of the Popular Party <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/pablo-casado-master-spain-supreme-court-asked-to-probe-conservative-leaders-degree\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Pablo Casado<\/a> are among those to have been previously caught up in the scandal at the same university.<\/p>\n<h2><em>Read this next: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/un-panel-finds-belgium-in-violation-of-libya-sanctions\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">UN panel finds Belgium in violation of Libya sanctions<\/a><\/em><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/spains-health-minister-steps-down-over-degree-scandal\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[contf]<br \/>\n[contfnew]<br \/>\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRMd3Tz2gX9xSa6CJyaOj2dokBVcrdaT4yY3R3RI7YmL18vCLZZ\"\/><\/p>\n<h5><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/&gt;Politico&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;\/h5&gt;_&lt;\/p&gt;[contfnewc]_[contfnewc]_&lt;\/body&gt;&lt;\/html&gt;\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spains health minister, Carmen Mont\u00f3n, resigned her post Tuesday after being caught up in an academi..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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