They also found that his classifications of sources were unprofessional, but they pointed out that this should have been brought to his attention at that time. The President earlier repeated that he rejects the allegations of plagiarism that may have surfaced because he has “helped” the government’s work as president.

Origo.hu looked into the 1992 rules – made in 1985 – and it came to light that they did not mention in detail about the formal requirement and the mode of making references. Origo.hu also looked into a a few other doctorates from 1992 to see how the others dealt with references. In 1992, together with Pál Schmitt, there were 10 people altogether gaining their doctorate, and Origo.hu checked eight of them.

There were no foot-notes in any of them, but there were references in the text itself, typically the names of the authors and the year of publication of referenced document or book in brackets. On the bases of the bibliograpy at the end of the dissertaton it was however easy to find the sources.

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