Former Education Minister Monica Anisi, president of the Senate Education Committee, supported the need for education laws from the floor of Parliament on Monday, saying “these laws are about the future.” Anisi, a Romanian language teacher, later returned and apologized, blaming “emotion and fatigue”.

From the Senate floor, Monica Anisi supported the need for education laws, saying “these laws are about the future.”

• “This is the biggest transformation of the education system in 11 years and probably one that will change the mentality.
• And yes, these laws are about the future, about the better future that we all want.
• I assure you that all the amendments passed by the Senate Committee on Education were focused on the needs of the beneficiaries of these laws,” Anisi said, quoting his speech from the paper.

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She later came back with an apology:

• “Recently, I have been working so many days and nights on education laws. I apologize. I made a mistake from emotions, from fatigue. I apologize for saying the wrong thing when I spoke. He was right: “laws on education are about the future.”

Senator Monika Anisi was Minister of Education from November 2019 to December 2020 in both governments led by Ludovic Orbán, and is currently also the President of the Committee on Education in the Senate.

The Senate is debating two education laws from the “Educated Romania” package on Monday, as more than 150,000 teachers went on a general strike. After the vote in the Senate, the laws will go to President Klaus Iohannis for promulgation.