A little -heard parliamentary meeting on Sunday
A parliamentary meeting has been convened today, Sunday, at. 13. This is news, as it is very easy to convene a meeting on Sundays.
As mbl.is comes next, this has only happened twice so that there is sources for it, and of which it was the second time before Iceland received a republic and sovereignty.
In recent days, so -called Protocol 35 with the European Economic Area Agreement has been for other debates. The middle party has been leading among the parties in that debate.
One example in the history of a republic
On Sunday, August 2, 1914, a parliamentary meeting was held, but according to an interview with Mbl.is with Helga Bernódusson from 2015, a parliamentary meeting was called because emergency supplies had to be taken at the beginning of the first war.
In the same interview, Helgi said:
« As previously stated, meetings have sometimes been held in parliament on Sunday night, for example at the end of parliament. However, the rule is clear that Parliament does not hold a parliamentary meeting on Sundays. It has been followed by the last decade quite rigidly. «
There are some examples of parliamentary meetings that start on Saturday entering Sunday, as happened last night, and an example is that a meeting is called for late Sunday due to special circumstances.
The latter came in 2015, when the bill was being finalized for currency controls so that they were completed before markets opened on Monday, to ensure equality of market participants.
About this, Ossur Skarphéðinsson, then MP for the Social Democratic Alliance, said in a speech in parliament on Sunday:
« This is the first time that Parliament has been together on Sunday. It has never happened during the Republic of the Republic before. There must be something very important. Sure, this is this bill, but the government has been preparing for months. Why is it necessary to do this tonight? »
Sunday good to work
The MPs asked the President of the Assembly, Þórunn Sveinbjarnardóttir, on what was that the parliamentary meeting still held after midnight last night. Sigríður Á. Andersen made serious comments.
« That a meeting is held here on Sunday, even if it is not a day or mass time, but that it has gone beyond midnight on Sunday here in parliament.
Sigríður Á. Andersen, MP. She makes serious comments on parliamentary session on Sunday.
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The President of the Assembly subsequently added and announced that she had sent a message to the chairmen of the parliamentary parties that it would be possible to hold a parliamentary meeting on Sunday, but no decision had been made.
« As for the Sabbath, he is certainly held holy around the world. Not always on Sundays, sometimes on Saturdays and sometimes on Fridays. Sunday is the first day of the week. Good for work and good to the good thoughts. Let’s just see what will happen. »
Þórunn Sveinbjarnardóttir, President of Parliament, says Sunday is good for work and fascinates thinking.
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Delays in the abandonment of sovereignty national hazard
It became clear that a parliamentary meeting was held at the third time of the night and a parliamentary meeting was also called today. Obviously, traditions and customs that parliamentary session is not on Sundays are scary on this historic Sunday.
There is no obvious need for a meeting on Sunday, but Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson relied on his theories of the urgent need in a speech in parliament last night when it was long over one:
Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson, chairman of the Central Party, has theories of what the government believes as a national hazard.
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« Then we know what is considered a national hazard in the opinion of the current government and the majority here in parliament. It is not a pandemic, it is not an economic collapse, it is not a volcanic eruption, but the fear that there will be delay in the fact that the government can give up from Iceland’s sovereignty to the European Union.
