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Education Minister Niki Kerameos and Interior Minister Takis Theodorikakos may have appeared together at the joint press conference that took place on September 1 for the opening of schools, but after the problems created with the “giant masks” they walk separately.
Niki Kerameos in his televised statements was careful to “empty” the close collaborator of the Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior, taking very clear distances on the issue.
In fact, to the point that he claims that he has no information about what will be born with the masks. The attitude of the Minister of Education seems to be a peculiar “revenge” for his “emptying” by Takis Theodorikakos, when he announced the free supply of masks, while Niki Kerameos had hinted that the cost will be borne by the citizens.
Television “nails”
The effort made by Niki Kerameos in an interview with ANT1 and Nikos Hatzinikolaou on Monday to keep their distance from the situation created with the masks was very evident.
Initially, Niki Kerameos clarified that “the masks and all the consumables are not the responsibility of the Ministry of Education.” She also added a few seconds later that “the masks were delivered and this was obviously done in consultation with the Ministry of the Interior with the Central Union of Municipalities and Communities.” In fact, responding to a question about whether the situation with the masks will be corrected, he pointed out that … he has no information and that it is the responsibility of another ministry. As Niki Kerameos said, “It is not the responsibility of the Ministry of Education, so it is better not to answer you about this. I have no information on this issue. It is not the responsibility of the Ministry of Education.”
It was natural that this attitude provoked the question of Nikos Hatzinikolaou who wondered: “Are they coordinating all this effort in the ministries? But are you talking to each other?” Of course “was the one-word answer from Niki Kerameos.
This remarkable attitude of the Minister of Education can only be interpreted politically in combination with the events of August 21. When Interior Minister Takis Theodorikakos had essentially poured out Niki Kerameos on the subject of the mask in schools.
The Interior Minister had stated that he was willing to proceed with the provision of schools with free masks, something that was finally confirmed by the relevant government decision with a suggestion from the Prime Minister. On the same day, however, Niki Kerameos had called the mask a “personal object”.
More specifically, in statements to the OPEN television channel, Niki Kerameos had stated that “the mask is a personal object that protects each one of us. It is everyone’s responsibility to provide a washable fabric mask. “On the contrary, Takis Theodorikakos, speaking with SKAI, had stated that” we are ready and awaiting instructions from infectious disease specialists for mask specifications after the suggestion of yesterday for the use of a mask by all the students. “
The giant masks for which N. Kerameos declares no responsibility
This is not the first time Kerameos
It should be noted that this is not the first time that Niki Kerameos has distanced himself from another government minister, on issues in which the Ministry of Education has jurisdiction. It was on November 12, 2019, when she adopted a similar stance on the incidents that occurred at ASOEE, blaming the Minister of Citizen Protection, Michalis Chrysochoidis.
When speaking about the issue to journalists in Parliament, after a meeting of the Committee on Educational Affairs, he had stated about the events of the ASOEE and the invasion of the police forces that “the responsibility of management lies with the Minister of Citizen Protection “. In fact, he had asked himself “what does the Minister of Education have to do with them?”
This is a common practice in the past when it comes to police operations within the university facilities, even in cases where there is no asylum issue, a consultation is made and the evaluation of the respective Minister of Education is requested.
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