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Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 13-05-15
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[01] SYRIZA leader calls PM to recall decision on mobilising teachers
[01] SYRIZA leader calls PM to recall decision on mobilising teachers
ANA-MPA/ Main opposition Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA) leader Alexis
Tsipras, speaking after his meeting with the board of the Secondary
Education Teachers Organisation OLME on Tuesday, called on Prime
Minister Antonis Samaras to recall the decision on mobilising teachers
and proposed a start to a dialogue on upgrading the public school after
the nationwide examinations.
Tsipras criticised the government and the prime minister for the
pre-emptive mobilisation of teachers, speaking of a method that deprives
constitutional liberties.
The SYRIZA leader said that the teachers' demands are fair, stressing
that the government's "intransigent stance jeopardises social cohesion,
creates huge problems for thousands of pupils who are currently on
the final stretch of an important struggle they are waging before the
examinations and, mainly, creates conditions than cannot be implemented
in lawabiding democratic states."
OLME's president said on his part that public education "is in a state of
dissolution and the government must realise that it cannot play with the
children of the Greek people. Also, it cannot play with the families of
thousands of teachers, it cannot dissolve the families of 5,000 permanent
teachers and lay off 10,000 contract employees."
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