Minister of Education, Daniel David: “I stayed for education. My resignation would not solve the crisis”

The Minister of Education, Daniel David, said he has acted as a “lightning” in recent months, accepting difficult measures for the education system, to protect the entire country from the consequences of a fiscal-budgetary crisis.

The minister says he took into account the resignation, but she would not solve anything / photo source: Inquam Photos

Daniel David said that he “states a paratrăsnet” since he arrived at the Ministry of Education

Daniel David, the Minister of Education, states that a “State Paratrăsnet” Lately, because he knew that if “Education gives signs of agitation”the country would have had problems related to the evaluations made by the rating agencies. David explains that he accepted the difficult measures for the field he leads, aware that, without them, the country, not only the education system, would suffer. He confesses that he has taken into account the resignation, but says he does not believe that his departure from office would solve the fiscal-budgetary crisis. “The operation of the system for me is more important than the position of minister,” points out Daniel David, according to news.ro.

“That is why I stayed a lighthouse from July 8 until August 15, I did not talk so much and I did not enter various debates and discussions, because I knew that if education shows signs of agitation, we have problems with the S&P evaluation and with the Fitch evaluation on August 15. scholarships to us, and throughout the country’s system, including for pensions and social aid ”, said Daniel David on Monday night at Antena 3.

David said that he accepted, as a technocrat, the position of minister in the hope that he would be able to reform in the system, but he realized that before the reform there is a need for measures without which the education system, and the country would “block”.

“Why do I, as a minister, have to take these measures? That I did not contribute to that major deficit. I came to this political world from the beginning of the year, in January, as a technocrat. You see, in the first term I came into a political and austerity crisis, in the second term I took an economic crisis and I think it was more time. That, if we do not take these crisis measures, we block our system and put the whole country at risk. said Daniel David.

The Minister of Education has taken “several times” in account to resign from the Government

He confessed that “Several times” He took into account the possibility of giving up the portfolio he owns.

“If I remember things well, my resignation has been asked I think from January, since I became a minister, because I came up with a very clear speech, that I come for a Euro-Atlantic Romania, obviously I was criticized by the Romanians who, for good reason, have a different perspective and is not critical. You know that this costs you. They had to be made in the first term. Let’s build on these annoyances next year, but at the same time I tell them that the functioning of the system for me is more important than the position of minister ”, added Daniel David, according to the quoted source.

What will the first day of school look like: teachers organize a major protest in the government and a huge march to Cotroceni

The president of the Spiru Haret Federation, Marius Nistor, said on Monday that there is no question of a general strike in education but only a boycott on September 8 of the beginning of the school year. In addition, he said, it will be a large rally in front of the Victoria Palace, followed by a protest march, to the Cotroceni Palace, according to News.ro.

“At the time of phase, it is clear that there is a more than serious option for the beginning of the school year, in the pre -university education, on September 8 to be boycotted. And it seems normal to be the result of a referendum triggered at national level,” said Marius Nistor, at Antena 3.