Science and Education Minister Radovan Fuchs said on Tuesday that the demands by the Preporod teachers' union, which has announced a protest rally for Wednesday, were over the top.

“I think their demands are rather questionable and problematic, especially now that this government has honoured all of its promises despite the projected GDP decline in the last quarter,” Fuchs said in an evening news programme on the RTL commercial television channel.

“These additional demands are a bit over the top,” he added.

Fuchs said that representatives of the protesters would be received at the Ministry “by someone at the level of state secretary at least.”

The Preporod union has announced a protest rally for Wednesday to draw attention to problems faced by teachers during the coronavirus outbreak, including the conduct of both online and in-person classes, teachers’ costs of holding online classes, and sick leave pay.