MPs meet for first of four special sessions

Parliamentarians have begun the first in a series of four special sessions of Parliament convened because January’s session ended in deadlock. Tuesday’s session was called by the Social Democratic Party in order to debate amendments to the Income Tax Act and the Criminal Code. Members will also be discussing proposals to cancel ceilings on social insurance payments and the government’s anti-corruption package. The coming days’ debates will involve primarily hot election topics, such as the left’s aim to increase maternal benefits and a call by Civic Democrats to confront allegations of corruption in the purchase of Gripen fighter jets from Sweden.