Overview
- Giuseppe Valditara, who visited the Galileo Galilei technical school in Rome on Thursday, faced a banner reading “Fuori Valditara dal Galilei” and a brief interruption from students.
- Protesting students said staff escorted them outside and kept them from retrieving their backpacks, and the Rete degli Studenti Medi said the minister uses school visits as media showcases without hearing student demands.
- Valditara called the attempt to halt his meeting an antidemocratic act and said he was engaging with more than 100 elected provincial student council representatives.
- CNPC spokesperson Alessandro Di Micco condemned the protesters’ methods as outside democratic norms, said they lacked any electoral mandate, and noted the councils had approved most proposals unanimously before the interruption.
- The episode moved a simmering dispute over consultation on technical-school policy into public view and may influence how future school meetings include elected councils versus grassroots student groups.