A solidarity demonstration for our teachers was organized by the ADOM Student Movement and the Democratic Union of Teachers on October 23 in Budapest.
Left-wing politicians and Soros organizations immediately joined the demonstration. The yellow-vested members of the Soros organization called Amnesty International behave as if they had organized the demonstration, coordinating people so that who should go where.
The event has all the outward signs of a political rally, they shouted "free country, free education", and there was not much talk about raising teachers' wages.
Dániel Deák, the XXI. An analyst from Szazad Intézet mentions in his Facebook post: "At 4:00 p.m. (the start time), all the politicians of the left-wing party rejected by the voters are already out, but there are not many participants, the interest clearly lags behind the demonstration at the beginning of October."
Klára Dobrev has already posted a picture of the smiling, concert-going demonstration, as Ferenc Gelencsér, the president of Momentum, also indicated: she is out.
Gergely Karácsony was the first speaker of the demonstration. (Photo: Zoltán Havran)
Gergely Karácsony also expressed himself on Facebook. The mayor imagines himself as a revolutionary when he wrote "He started with the students in 1956..." and then asked everyone to listen to his speech at the demonstration. Gergely Karácsony spoke in front of the University of Technology at the demonstration about how he is not only here as mayor, but also as a father. He mentioned his son, whom he hopes is really in the crowd, and his wife, who works as a teacher, to whom he pointed.
"I'm only here on stage now to hand over the stage to others who are certainly much more important," said Karácsony as the first speaker. The politician of Párbeszéd also stated that
On behalf of his 3,200 fellow mayors, that they are ready to return public education to municipal management at any time, it is true that the city manager, who constantly threatens Budapest with bankruptcy, did not say how they would finance this activity.
"Long live the free country, long live free education, long live the Grund" - this is how the mayor ended his speech.
The trend has been clear since the beginning of the 2010s, since then the teachers' unions have already created an election program for the left.
According to Erzsébet Nagy, a member of the caucus of the Democratic Trade Union of Teachers, today they also demonstrate against what she considers to be illegal employer measures. He believed that teachers should decide whether to eat or warm, which the authorities want to increase the feeling of insecurity. He stated that public education had collapsed and that it would be good to restore vocational training as well. He demanded competitive salaries for teachers and XXI. century conditions for education, a modern National core curriculum, and a free choice of textbooks.
In the meantime, Péter Márki-Zay, the common failed prime ministerial candidate of the left, appeared in the crowd, who previously also wrote in his Facebook post that the opposition should be there at the demonstration organized next to the teachers.
A year after the election of the second Orbán government, teachers were already on the streets. The fact that some teachers interpreted the movement as an anti-government demonstration already gave a political color to the June 2011 demonstration, as can be read in Origó.hu's coverage at the time.
The focus of the protests is officially the wage issue,
but every movement shows that the left is organizing against the government.
In June 2022, Gergely Gulyás, the minister in charge of the Prime Minister's Office, said that teachers can expect a significant salary increase if the EU provides the funds promised to Hungary. Meanwhile, the PDSz and the PSZ are allied with those left-wing parties, led by Momentum and DK, which are doing everything to prevent the money due to our country from arriving.
Source and full article: Magyar Nemzet
Featured image: MN/Zoltán Havran
