Dozens of accounts praised Romania’s education system and Education Minister Ligia Deka after she posted an upbeat message about poor PISA results.

We remind you that the Minister of Education, Ligia Deka, was attacked on Tuesday on her official Facebook account by people who praised the Romanian education system and the results of the PISA 2022 tests, presented on a positive note by a member of the Colacu cabinet.

Most of the accounts that commented and rated the message sent by Ligia Deca shared the posts of PNL leader Nicolae Cuke, assessing that the Romanian education system is “sustainable” and “participatory”, thus adopting part of the speech of the minister, former presidential adviser on education in Klaus Iohannis’s team.

According to Factual, the identity of those commenting on the education minister’s posts has been questioned, revealing a network of more than 50 fake accounts that often share or interact with posts by members of the National Liberal Party.

“The minister’s page is not administered by the Ministry of Education, so the institution has no official position to provide here, other than that it does not administer it,” Ministry of Education spokeswoman Larisa Goyneta explained to Libertatea.

In the voice of the spokeswoman of the Ministry of Deca, she conveyed that the page is not promoted for money.

“The minister’s position is that this page was not and will not be promoted for money and you have no intention of using unethical strategies. There is no such strategy. If you look at the page, most of the comments are not positive at all,” Goynete said.

Deka’s post began to garner negative messages after HotNews.ro reported the presence of messages from accounts promoting content from PNL leader Nicolae Chuke.

Goinete did not know who manages the official page of Minister Ligia Deka.

“I don’t have the information. Of course, we are not talking about a paid service,” Goynete said.

Deka recorded when she told a story about ministry staff deleting negative comments about her

A month ago, Ligia Deka said at the debate that she was worried about negative comments about her and published on social networks.

Deka is quoted in full as she said the “communications” staff of her ministry deletes such messages.

• “When I post something related to my work as a minister… Of course my colleagues in Communications take care to remove such things, but there is a lot of swearing, personal attacks, lies, questions about my physical characteristics or how I behave, my clothes or my family and so on.
• And I’m an adult who knows the psychological mechanism behind these things, I know it’s not about me, and yet if my colleagues don’t delete them fast enough, I get a negative charge. I’m having a bad day!” Ligia Deka said in an audio recording broadcast by B1 TV on November 1.