The abolition of the minimum import base already this year, if a progressive government is elected, the core of which will be SYRIZA-PS, the president of SYRIZA promised, Alexis Tsipras answering questions live on social networks.

Alexis Tsipras accused Prime Minister and Education Minister Niki Kerameos of “excluding 20,000 children from institutions of higher learning” with a minimum enrollment base measure for the “purpose” of transferring to private colleges.

“We consider it absurd, we consider it immoral. Therefore, I want to assure that the abolition of the minimum admission base will be one of the first acts of the next progressive government and will come into force after the exams that students will take in June this year,” he said.

The President of SYRIZA said that this would be achieved by legislatively abolishing the minimum import base so that when the results are published in September, the algorithm “in effect prior to the legislative adoption by Ms. Kerameos” will apply.

“Students and their families should be aware of this. We will correct this injustice. We do not want young children to become part of the reservoir for private education and we want to enable as many boys and girls as possible to move on to higher education and be able to go to school,” he added, stating that SYRIZA plans to increase spending on public education up 5% within four years, doubling spending and teachers.

When asked if there could be a university admission system without exams, Alexis Tsipras replied that “Pan-Greek exams are the only unchanging thing we have in this country”, noting that it is not “humane”.

He pointed out that the previous government adopted in 2018 “a new system that provided for “green” and “red” schools, that is, those where the demand was less than or equal to the available places, and children could pass without exams, and schools of high competition, where there should be some kind of “competitive process”. “Of course, Mrs. Kerameos canceled it, we are striving to restore it,” he said.

Asked about student welfare, Mr Tsipras attacked the government for appointing a “former youth party president” to run student housing, who, in the words of President SYRIZA, “left most of the hostels to their mercy.” .

Alexis Tsipras cited as an example the protests of Kapodistrian University students in the winter of 2021, who said they had neither heating in snowy conditions nor security, resulting in “unpleasant events”.