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

BarcelonaThe presence of two plainclothes police officers at a teachers' assembly has further strained the already tense relations between the Government and the teachers. The Minister of Education, Esther Niubó, has denied, however, that she commissioned "any report" from the Mossos about the teachers' negotiation strategy and has guaranteed that next week it will be the Minister of the Interior who will give "all the relevant 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 opposition parties.

"Obviously I didn't 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; the "professional criteria" for undertaking actions, which are always "within the scope of their competencies and legislation." "What do you think?" asked the presenter of Via Lliure, Xavi Bundó. "Opinion is not relevant when you don't 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, which the minister considers "a bit disproportionate." 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.