The protesters broke the cordon, and the police held them back with gas spray

Moods are not calming down regarding the law on the status of teachers. Around 5 o'clock in the afternoon, hundreds of students and teachers gathered at Kálvin Square for a demonstration called by the Democratic Union of Teachers (PDSZ).  

Initially, the rain seemed to wash away the demonstration, but after the thunderstorm subsided, the crowd started an hour late. Many shouted with megaphones: "No teacher, no future." A lot of students came to the scene, according to what they say, they can sense how overburdened the teachers are.

In her speech in front of the Ministry of the Interior's Széchenyi Square building, Erzsébet Nagy, a member of the national committee of the Democratic Union of Teachers (PDSZ), demanded that the government withdraw the draft of the status law, as its purpose is not to improve public education, but to regulate teachers. He continued: instead, the government should come up with legislation that fulfills the role that the cabinet assumed towards the EU, because - as he put it - "then public education will also improve and there will be money".

Erzsébet Nagy also reported that "all major factions" of the European Parliament signed a letter addressed to the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, in which they demanded that the EC exert pressure on the Hungarian government to withdraw the status law.

In addition to others, organized by teacher unions, Down with the revenge law! Down with the oppression! participants in the movement marched from Kálvin tér, touching Ferenciek tér and Március 15. tér, in front of the Ministry of the Interior building. Lili Pankotai participated in the event, where she said in her speech:

"We are rewriting the rules of the game, turning the chessboard upside down (...)". He then called on everyone to go to Karmelita, where cordon breaking is currently taking place.

After the Széchenyi square demonstration, some of the demonstrators marched in front of the Carmelite monastery.

The full article of Magyar Hírlap can be read here.

Picture: Tamás Purger