National leader of the Social-Democratic Party (PD-L), Prime Minister Emil Boc, reiterated on Monday, at the end of a meeting of the leaders of the ruling coalition that he will dismiss Ecaterina Andronescu as education minister if school principals are replaced under minister’s order.
Boc argued that the order issued by Andronescu runs contrary to the National Education Law and the decentralisation law, which bestows prerogatives on local communities in naming school principals.
Boc confirmed having discussed the matter with Andronescu and telling her that the education minister will be replaced if the school principals are hired and fired under a minister’s order.