The president of the University Employees’ Union, Sander Kovaci, stated that the lecturers who are expected to go on hunger strike, have been threatened and blackmailed by politics. In a statement to the media, Kovaci said that this proves how deeply politics has intervened in education.

Among other things, Kovaci called on Prime Minister Edi Rama to stop the attacks and insults against university lecturers.

“They’ve come forward full force, full of insults, against a peaceful protest, against a cause that belongs not only to the dignity of the intellectuals of a country but to the entire people, proves how deeply politics have intervened in education.

It is this violent coercion of politics that is intimidating, threatening, and blackmailing our colleagues as they are taking the sublime step of a hunger strike. This protest of the teachers and this escalation is a momentum of the highest social class, which is facing denied rights.

“Stop the unprincipled attacks, Mr. Prime Minister, and the low insults against the teachers, who are exercising a right guaranteed by the constitution,” he emphasized.