The Minister of Education assures that she has not commissioned any report to the Mossos about teachers

BarcelonaThe presence of two plainclothes police officers at a teachers' assembly has further soured the already tense relations between the Government and the educators. The Minister of Education, Esther Niubó, has denied, however, that she commissioned "any report" from the Mossos on the teachers' negotiating strategy and has guaranteed that next week it will be the Minister of the Interior who will provide "all the pertinent explanations." In an interview with Rac1, Niubó preferred not to comment on the police infiltration and limited herself to expressing her confidence in both the Mossos and their director general, Josep Lluís Trapero, the main target of criticism from opposition parties.

"Obviously I did not know," the minister insisted about the controversy. Niubó repeated the points the Government has been emphasizing in recent days to justify the operation at the Institut Pau Claris in Barcelona: the "professionalism" of the Mossos corps; the "professional criteria" for undertaking actions, which are always "within the scope of their competencies and legislation." "What do you think?", the presenter of Via Lliure, Xavi Bundó, asked her. "The opinion is not relevant when one does not have all the information," replied Niubó, who did explain that she had discussed the matter with the Minister of the Interior, Núria Parlon.

Niubó will resume negotiations with the teachers' unions next Thursday at the sectoral education table, as indicated. This will be after the main teachers' union, USTEC, calls for a strike again on Tuesday. There are, in fact, seventeen days of strike called until the end of the school year, a fact that the minister considers "a disproportionate point." For now, the Government is not willing to modify the agreement reached with CCOO and UGT: "It is a very good agreement, which responds to the issues raised by the educational community," she defended.