The president of the Federation of Education Trade Unions Spiru Haret, Marius Nistor, said on Thursday that it is possible that certain instigators have infiltrated the teachers’ groups, some even politically motivated, and he asked his colleagues to be aware of such situations and reports.

“It could be. I can’t know. I can’t control it. Let me, I can’t control what goes up in the Facebook groups, in the teachers’ groups. I’m trying to start with good will by having a clear discussion with our union leaders and by our union members, and categorically ask them to strongly reject any external interference, any political interference. We do not accept this under any circumstances,” Marius Nistor said when asked Thursday on Antena 3 if the agitators were among his colleagues, reports News.ro.

Asked if there were attempts at political interference in the current Perotest, Nistor said: “I cannot know. It seems that some would like to take advantage of this movement. I asked our colleagues to be attentive to this.”

The leader of the Union of Free Trade Unions in Pre-University Education (USLIP), Iasi Laviniu Lacoste, says that it is not the teachers who are putting the national exams at risk, but the government, whose stance has led to the radicalization of the protest. He emphasizes that the Government should have first proposed a resolution on teachers’ salaries, and not say for two weeks that there is no money. Lacouste’s reaction came after Iohannis criticized teachers for “daring” to “make national exams more difficult” even though “they got everything they asked for from the government”.

Teachers rejected the government’s latest offer from Wednesday night and announced they would press ahead with a vote from union federation leaders after talks at Victoria Palace.

The latest proposal of the executive body, passed through GEO, is a salary increase of 1,000 lei gross for teaching staff and 400 lei gross for non-teaching staff, with further gradual salary increases over the next three years according to the upcoming salary law. . The government met on Thursday in a meeting that Prime Minister Nicolae Chuke called extraordinary to approve the GEO.