Minister of the Interior asks questioned ministers to leave office so as not to harm the government

The relationship between the Executive and Legislative are not the best, especially when you are about to discuss the vacancy against the president Pedro Castillo. The same tension would be being experienced within the Council of Ministers after questioning several of its members. For his part, the head of Interior, Alfonso Chávarry , considered that those who have difficulties in coping with adversity should move away from the government to avoid causing further harm to it.

“I understand that every minister has his problem and each one must solve it transparently. Otherwise, let them step aside and do no harm to the Government. The community and Congress must evaluate all of us,” Chavarry said from Ucayali where he arrived to oversee the destruction of clandestine tracks.

The most recent questioning of a cabinet member has been the Minister of Labor, Betssy Chavez, whose undergraduate thesis would have been plagiarized, according to a Panorama report. The minister quickly went out to deny the accusation that more than a dozen pages of her research work had been literally transcribed. In addition, the new Minister of Justice, Felix Chero, was reportedly criticized after it became known that during his time of litigation he managed to process a Habeas corpus in favor of a convicted person for rape of a minor.

“With regard to my portfolio in this political position, then, we are looking forward to it. As long as they don't tell me otherwise, I continue to work with great affection, with great commitment for Peru,” Chávarry said of his tenure in office. “The Presidency of the Council of Ministers is evaluating. The negative side must be seen as well as the positive side, who weighs more in the balance,” he added, referring to the future of certain members of the cabinet today led by Aníbal Torres.

PLAGIARIZED THESIS

The most recent questions to the cabinet point to the Ministry of Labor, specifically, its incumbent Betssy Chavez. Almost half of his undergraduate thesis would have been plagiarized, according to a journalistic report claiming that the document was submitted to the well-known Turnitin software. “In the specific analysis, complete pages were found pasted and copied from different sources that have not been cited throughout the document. That is gross and badly done plagiarism,” said researcher Percy Mayta.

Although this software cannot determine the existence of plagiarism, it is able to find coincidences with other academic works published over the last two decades. Thus, the program determined that at least 49% of the research had similarities with other works. In addition, Panorama revealed that more than a dozen sheets would have been literally transcribed.

“He's lucky because his thesis is from 2015. The University Law of 2014 proposes that there should be regulations, finally approved in 2016, where universities are required to require originality, to have ways of verifying similarity and, of course, that there is no plagiarism in documents. If that thesis had been reviewed with the current regulations, I would clearly not have been able to obtain a degree,” Mayta added.

“The identity of a thesis is determined based on the contribution obtained from fieldwork, the approach of the problem with its variables and the analysis of the information obtained”, was part of Chávez's statement after the dissemination of the journalistic article. Líneas below emphasizes that what is stated by the software “does not disable or diminish the value of the research work deployed, much less does it turn the thesis into “plagiarism” or “copy”.

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