Emerging coalition agrees to limit parliamentary immunity

The leaders of the three parties have signed an agreement to restrict the immunity of members of both houses of Parliament. The proposal would amend constitutional law in order to allow parliamentarians to be investigated for misdemeanours. Each chamber would still be able to refuse to allow their members to be investigated, though such investigations may be made once the parliamentarian completes his or her mandate. The three parties intend to submit the bill to Parliament on Thursday as a joint proposal. They anticipate the support of the Social Democratic Party, without which they lack the votes to pass the measure.