North Rhine-Westphalia’s school minister Dorothee Feller (CDU) apologized on Wednesday. She knows what that means for students who prepare for their exams with their own work plan, she said in Düsseldorf.

The decision to postpone the start of the Abitur exams was very difficult. She can understand that students and teachers are “really angry”, said the minister. “That’s me too.” At the moment the downloading of the Abitur exams for this Thursday is going well. The ministry was constantly in contact with the schools, said Feller.

A number of schools had already called for help on Tuesday followingnoon, as the NRW Philology Association reported to the “Aachener Zeitung”. The opposition in the North Rhine-Westphalia state parliament criticized the procedure and pointed out what they saw as a lack of communication from the state government. The SPD parliamentary group in the state parliament requested a special session of the school committee.

“Abi-Super-Gau”

Dilek Engin, spokeswoman for school policy for the SPD parliamentary group, wrote in a reaction that the school minister had a “super meltdown” and accused her of “catastrophic communication behavior”. The minister had disappeared for hours. Teachers and high school graduates would now have to pay for the problem. “By the way, especially the pupils of Muslim faith, who celebrate the sugar festival on Friday. And whether the announced rail strike on Friday can be guaranteed to run smoothly at all is still completely open,” Engin continued.

“Actually, they can no longer be used because confidentiality cannot be guaranteed one hundred percent,” said Engin, referring to the exam tasks. Franziska Müller-Rech, spokeswoman for school policy in the FDP parliamentary group in North Rhine-Westphalia, was outraged by the breakdown. “What a horror! You spend weeks preparing for your Abitur – and then it falls through due to a lack of tasks,” said Müller-Rech in a written statement.

The NRW school minister said on Wednesday that students who are unable to take the exam on Friday because of the sugar festival can make up for it. The minister does not fear a data leak. Your house currently sees no reason to set new tasks on Friday. “We assume that the tasks are not burned,” said a specialist from the ministry.

“It’s an indictment”

Even a Bielefeld school does not help their own initiative: As reported to this editor, the upper school head went to a friend’s school, which was lucky enough to be able to download the tasks, and organized the tasks in this way.

Harald Willert, spokesman for the school management association NRW eV, is also outraged: “It is a sign of failure that the server crashes the first time it is loaded. That is very unfortunate for thousands of high school graduates.” It shows that data processing and digitization are still on shaky ground.

Christian Beckmann, Chairman of the State Parents’ Conference of North Rhine-Westphalia, makes a similar statement: “Imagine the uncertainty of the high school graduates the day before their first final exam – and that following the pandemic years. That’s an impertinence and there has to be a better way.”

These exams should have taken place

On Wednesday, the Abitur exams should have started all over NRW at high schools and comprehensive schools. Tests were planned in the subjects biology, chemistry, nutrition, computer science, physics and technology.

In the followingnoon, Sabine Mistler, head of the Philology Association of North Rhine-Westphalia, emphasized to the WDR that timely downloading of the exams is particularly important in these subjects. This is because a test arrangement often has to be set up in order to carry out the test. In addition, the right subject areas had to be selected.

The B solution didn’t work either

The service provider for transmitting the tasks had a second server, Feller explained on Wednesday. However, this B solution did not work either. In the fall, the download was tested smoothly with around 300 schools. Downloading was also successful for 300 schools on Tuesday followingnoon. The schools were asked to keep the exams under lock and key.

The economic expert, Mahmoud Jabai, announced that, “Raising the customs dollar in order to finance the increase in salaries and wages in Lebanese pounds is a wrong solution, expecting that the Banque du Liban will reduce its support for banking for individuals, and thus the exchange rate of the dollar on the black market will rise once more.”

“The compulsory reserve in the Banque du Liban should be $11 billion, and if we do not reach a radical political solution, we will not be able to reach an economic recovery,” Jabai said in an interview with “Sawt Al-Mada”.

He pointed out that, “The exchange rate may rise at any moment and dramatically, because the current solutions are not long-term.”

He added, “The printing of banknotes must be presented as part of a financial and economic recovery plan by the government.”

He pointed out that, “There is no depreciation in the exchange rate more than what is happening today, even if there is a political consensus.”

Through his social networks, the lawyer Jordán Rodas Andrade announced that the Constitutional Court (CC) admitted for processing the amparo presented by the Movement for the Liberation of the Peoples party (MLP) once morest the ruling of the Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ).

Likewise, it is indicated that the CC gave three days for the corresponding file to be sent.

“We continue in the legal fight so that it is respected and resolved in favor of our right to be elected,” added Rodas Andrade.

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— Jordan Rodas Andrade (@JordanRodas) April 18, 2023

CC processes amparo

“The Court of origin is ordered to send this Court amparo number 209-2023 and its respective background information, within three days of being notified, under warning that, in case of non-compliance, it may incur the responsibilities set forth in the Law of the matter”, indicates the fragment of the CC resolution shared by the former Human Rights Ombudsman.

This seems to be the last path that the MLP might use to request the registration of its pairing.

Last week, the CSJ decided to definitively deny the protection requested by the MLP.

The decision was by majority, with Judge Delia Dávila being the only one who presented a dissenting vote.

European Union “take note”

Meanwhile, Jordán Rodas also shared a statement from the European Union which he also shared on social networks.

has taken note of the decision of the Supreme Court of Justice to confirm the decision of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal not to register the candidates for the Presidency and Vice-Presidency Mrs. Thelma Cabrera and Mr. Jordán Rodas. 1/2

Authorities must guarantee that the registration of candidates is carried out with total transparency, impartiality and in accordance with the Constitution, in order to offer a real possibility of choosing and guarantee the inclusive and competitive nature of the electoral process.

Guatemala: ????????has taken note of the decision of the Supreme Court of Justice to confirm the decision of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal not to register the candidates for the Presidency and Vice Presidency Ms. Thelma Cabrera and Mr. Jordán Rodas. 1/2

— Peter Stano (@ExtSpoxEU) April 17, 2023