His opposition to the bill providing for the establishment of non-state universities expressed in his statement the former president of SYRIZA, Alexis Tsiprasspeaking of reactionary revenge attempted by the ND government

In particular, Mr. Tsipras states that “from 15% for Education in the 1960s to the Bread-Education-Freedom of the Polytechnic and the struggles of students, students and their teachers in recent years, the struggles for public and free Education have always been intertwined with the struggles of our people for democracy, freedom and justice. Because a society that does not provide everyone with the equal right to education is a society condemned to wither.”

Then Mr. Tsipras adds that “The Mitsotakis government is attempting a reactionary revenge today. It legislates the possibility of establishing for-profit private universities, bypassing the spirit and letter of the Constitution.”

The entire statement of Mr. Tsipras:

From 15% for Education in the 1960s to the Bread-Education-Freedom of the Polytechnic and the struggles of students, students and their teachers in recent years, the struggles for public and free Education have always been intertwined with the struggles of our people for democracy, freedom and justice. Because a society that does not provide everyone equally with the right to education is a society doomed to wither.

The Mitsotakis government operates today a reactionary rematch. Legislates the possibility of establishing for-profit private universities, bypassing the spirit and letter of the Constitution.

Really, why for so many years, since the beginning of the nineties, while the ND has consistently supported the establishment of private universities, has it never occurred to them to proceed or propose their legislation, without the revision of Article 16?

Today they discovered that isn’t the Constitution an obstacle?

Obviously not.

This is another step in the downward spiral of the systematic discrediting of institutionseven of the Constitution itself, by a government that, every time it is abandoned, simply replies that it was elected with 41%.
And mostly this is another vested interest profiteering opportunity. So big, that it cannot wait the three years required for the next Constitutional revision.

Education, however, is a very serious national matter for the democratic people, the youth, the teachers, the parents, the academic community to leave it at the mercy of government arrogance and profiteering.

No reform in higher education, however necessary, cannot be done without serious dialogue with all stakeholders and society. Without the material means for its implementation. Without the necessary social consent.

That’s why, even if the establishment – despite the Constitution – of private and for-profit universitiesbecomes the law of the land today, one thing is certain: It will not prosper.