Orbán says won’t apologise to teachers

Budapest, March 16 (MTI) – Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on Wednesday said he would not apologise to teachers for the state of Hungary’s education system, news portal nol.hu reported.

On Tuesday, István Pukli, a headmaster who has become the symbolic leader of Hungary’s teacher protest movement, told tens of thousands of demonstrators assembled in Kossuth Square that a one-hour teachers’ strike may be held at the end of March unless the prime minister and the president apologise to the profession and government representatives sit down for talks with teachers.

“I took [Pukli’s ultimatum] as a joke,” the prime minister said in response to a question by a nol.hu reporter in Parliament. “The whole thing just sounded so funny.” When asked to comment on the possibility of a teachers’ strike, Orbán responded by saying “I will be at work.”

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Source: http://mtva.hu/hu/hungary-matters