Ferenc Gyurcsány plagiarism controversy Ferenc Gyurcsány plagiarism controversy The Ferenc Gyurcsány plagiarism controversy refers to the allegations of plagiarism concerning the 1984 college thesis of Ferenc Gyurcsány, Prime Minister of Hungary between 2004 and 2009, that broke in spring 2012, after the resignation of President Pál Schmitt as the result of the Pál Schmitt academic misconduct controversy. Gyurcsány graduated from the Teacher's Training Faculty of the Janus Pannonius University, now University of Pécs, in 1984, as an elementary school teacher of biology and technology, with a 35-page college thesis entitled "A Balaton-felvidék szőlészete és borászata" (The viticulture and oenology of the Balaton-highlands). In an
Prime Minister of Lebanon the office of the Prime Minister in Lebanon is notably significantly weaker in Lebanon than in France, for the President is the sole person who can dismiss him (at will), while in France the Prime Minister is appointed by the President, and can only be removed by the Parliament through a vote of no confidence. This means that the Prime Minister of Lebanon must be much more deferential to the President than his French counterpart. Twice in the past, when the president resigned or shortly before his term expired, the president broke the National Pact and appointed a Maronite Christian