意大利內閣總理候選人涉嫌學歷造假大綱

It was revealed that Giuseppe Conte, an attorney and law professor nominated by Luigi Di Maio from the populist Five-Star Movement and the League's Matteo Salvini to head Italy's 66th government last Monday, may have lied about or exaggerated his educational credentials.
上週一，民粹主義政黨“五星運動”黨首路易吉·迪馬奧與“聯盟黨”黨魁馬泰奧·薩爾維尼提名律師兼法學教授朱塞佩·孔特爲意大利第66屆總理人選。然而有消息稱，孔特可能謊報或美化了他的學歷。

Conte's curriculum vitae states he studied at some of the world's most prestigious universities, including Yale and New York University in the US, France's Sorbonne and Cambridge in Britain.
根據孔特的簡歷，他曾就讀於數所世界最負盛名的大學，包括美國的耶魯大學和紐約大學，法國的巴黎索邦大學以及英國劍橋大學。

But a report from The New York Times quoted a representative from New York University as saying the institution had no record of Conte studying there.
但《紐約時報》的一篇報道援引紐約大學一位發言人的話稱，該學府數據庫中並沒有孔特在此求學的記錄。

Other Italian media noted that Conte's reported coursework at other universities may have been misstated.
其他意大利媒體也指出，孔特簡歷上關於他在其它大學的課程成果也可能造假。

Commentators said it was unclear how much damage the charges would cause.
評論人士稱，目前還不清楚這些指控會造成多大的損害。

"This kind of thing has happened in Italy before: Valeria Fedeli (the current Italian minister of education) inaccurately claimed to have graduated from university when she hadn't, and she was not forced to step down," Vincenzo Emanuele, a researcher with the Italian Center for Electoral Studies at Rome's LUISS University, said in an interview.
羅馬路易斯大學意大利選舉研究中心的一名名叫文森佐·埃馬努埃萊的研究員，在一次採訪中表示：“這種事情以前在意大利發生過：瓦萊裏婭·費代利（現任意大利教育部部長）曾聲稱自己已經大學畢業，但其實當時她並沒有，結果是她並沒有被迫下臺。”

"Conte's misrepresentation is less serious than that, but being prime minister is also a more high-profile job than being minister of education," he said.
他說：“相比那起事件，孔蒂的錯誤陳述並不是那麼嚴重，但作爲總理，他的工作也比作爲一位教育部長更備受矚目。”