Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto denied plagiarizing his law school thesis Thursday, after his university confirmed the president did not quote many things in a proper manner.
The Panamerican University skirted outright saying their powerful alumnus “plagiarized,” instead said the thesis contained, “textual reproductions of fragments (of other works) without footnotes or mentions in the bibliography.”
Peña Nieto said he, “may have committed some methodological error,” but brushed off his own admission of improper work by saying, “in no way did I want to appropriate the ideas of others.”
The Mexican leader’s denial comes after Mexican news outlet Aristegui Noticias revealed in late August that 29 percent of his 1991 thesis was plagiarized. Government spokesman Eduardo Sanchez initially dismissed Aristegui Noticias’ findings as mere “style errors.”
Peña Nieto is having a rough few weeks — he holds a 23 percent approval rating, and his wife is currently embroiled in scandal for using the apartment of a major Mexican businessman bidding on government contracts.
GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump’s visit to Mexico has also greatly angered many Mexicans, who expected their president to deal with the candidate in a more forceful manner.
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