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I’m glad so many people are protesting for us – according to atv.hu, Gergely Gulyás, the minister who heads the Prime Minister’s Office, commented on the thousands of demonstrations on Saturday for university autonomy, which in fact misinterpreted the facts.
“As for the case of the University of Theater and Film Arts (SZFE), we look at what is happening. We would never have thought that a fairly extensive Baliberal clique would want the state and the bourgeois Christian Democratic government to oversee it. And if I understand correctly, there are demonstrations to restore the previous order and ensure that the university is run by the Christian Democratic government, not by an independent foundation, free from all state and governmental influence. I am glad that so many people are protesting for us ”, – according to atv.hu, Gergely Gulyás commented on the thousands of demonstrations by SZFE students and those who defend university autonomy on a discussion podium.
He did not understand well
In fact, the minister did not “understand” why he spoke out yesterday or was in a bad mood, as SZFE students and professors have made clear for 54 days: they want to negotiate with the Minister of Innovation, exercising the foundational rights of the SZFE foundation to preserve the statutory autonomy of your university. Revoke a measure of the Board of Trustees designated by the Minister of Innovation in violation of university autonomy, which deprives the Senate of its powers. (In the future, the university’s decision-making body, the Senate, will not be able to decide on its regulations, intervene in the institution’s budget, approve the institution’s development plan, elect the university rector, appoint department heads , directors and start classes.)
The LXXII of 2020 adopted by the majority parliament Fidesz-KDNP in a few weeks. The government authorized László Palkovics, the minister responsible for higher education, to represent the government until September 31, 2021, to establish the foundation owned and maintained by the SZFE since September. Palkovics named the president and the members of the board of trustees of the new foundation that maintained the university, among whom – although a recommendation was requested from the SZFE – not a single person nominated by the university was included, only right-wing and activists and two executives of Mol Plc. official. No person recommended by SZFE was included on the university’s supervisory board. The government also provided real estate and, on October 20, 3 billion HUF in additional funds to the foundation that maintains SZFE through a grant agreement to be signed by the Minister of Innovation.
Gergely Gulyás does not believe – despite the demonstration of at least ten thousand people on Saturday – that today the SZFE case is included in the fifty most important cases in the country. This is not only from a specific political point of view, but also from the point of view of people’s daily lives, Gulyás claimed according to atv.hu.
According to atv.hu, Gergely Gulyás started from the “freedom of art” in relation to the composition of the board of the SZFE Foundation. According to him, it is worth seeing to what extent personalities located on the board of directors can be connected with art. As he said, “they deliberately and correctly sought to include people who were successful in other areas of life,” wrote atv.hu.
The government left but stayed
The “political work” by the government ended up saying that higher education should not really flow within the state. From the outside, the University of Theater and Film Arts, the former faculty, was “dominated by a relatively large society, which had previously been highly criticized even by Baliberals,” says Gergely Gulyás.
“So I think the foundation model is a better maintenance model for the University of Theater and Film Arts,” said Gulyás. “The Board has said many times that it is at the disposal of the teachers and is happy to negotiate with them, it is at the disposal of the current leadership. I cannot imagine the greater willingness to compromise,” the minister said on atv.hu.
This means that according to the Minister, after the restriction of the powers of the Senate, the SZFE should have negotiated with the Board of Trustees for its leadership and resigned teachers. (In fact, the government has yet to withdraw from the maintenance of the SZFE, as the Minister of Innovation appoints the members of the board of directors and has founding rights until the end of 2021. The government transferred real estate and money to the foundation, and then through state-funded training, you can also have a say in running the college).
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