Peru May Bar Presidential Candidate for Plagiarism

Peru's electoral committee said on Wednesday it might bar a leading presidential candidate from the race if a university in Spain verifies plagiarism allegations against him. Cesar Acuna, a wealthy former governor and businessman who is tied for second place in recent polls, has denied claims that he copied the work of others without attribution in his 2009 doctoral thesis on education. The Complutense University of Madrid opened an inquiry after Twitter users accused Acuna of...

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