Mexico City.– President Andrés Manuel López Obrador meets this afternoon with teachers who are members of the National Coordinator of Education Workers (CNTE), who demand the repeal of the educational reform and a change to the ISSSTE pension system.
Leaders and representatives of different entities in the country adhered to the dissident current of the teaching profession entered at 11:00 a.m. with the hope that at this meeting the president will give them a response to their demands.
“We come for an answer, according to the approach and according to what the president had already commented, that this day he was going to give us answers about the educational reform, about the reform of the ISSSTE law and, also, how We were going to deal with the issue of the USICAMM (System Unit for the Career of Teachers),” said Héctor Torres Solano, general secretary of Section 14 of Guerrero.
While the commission is meeting with the president, outside, on the Zócalo square, the teachers hold a rally and raise slogans in favor of their movement and against the educational reform.
The entire National Palace is surrounded by metal fences and guarded by riot police from the Mexico City Police.
On June 4, CNTE teachers threw stones at the National Palace and broke windows in the building.
Yesterday, during his press conference, López Obrador indicated that he would show the teachers a bag with the stones that the security personnel collected and condemned the use of violence.
Torres Solano said that he was not aware of the President’s reproach, but that he hopes that this Tuesday’s meeting will be fruitful.
“Today there is hope that they will give us a favorable response to the Coordinator’s approach,” he said.
Yesterday, the virtual president-elect, Claudia Sheinbaum, reported that she agreed with López Obrador to present an initiative to reform the ISSSTE law and change the pension system for teachers, which has been one of the main demands of the CNTE.
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